[yocto] cannot build image using sstate

[Patrick Ohly]

On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 08:54 +0200, Mircea Gliga wrote:
> Long story short: I have problems building an image, in a clean build 
> directory, reusing the shared state cache and downloads from a previous 
> build.
> A file created in the do_deploy_append task is not created(restored) 
> anymore when building using a previous sstate.
> 
> And now the long description:
> In my custom layer, in a kernel recipe, linux-stable.bb, I have appended 
> some operations to the `deploy` task, one of them is creating an U-Boot 
> FIT image:
> 
> linux-stable.bb:
> do_deploy_append() {
> [...]
>          #this line creates the image_signed.fit file
>           mkimage  [...] image_signed.fit
> 
> [...]
> }

Are you writing image_signed.fit into the ${DEPLOYDIR} or
${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}? When writing directly into ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}, you
bypass the mechanism which adds files to the sstate cache and then you
get exactly the problem you describe.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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