On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Paul Eggleton < paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrea, > > On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 10:17:42 PM NZDT Andrea Galbusera wrote: > > I noticed that periodically running 'bitbake -c do_populate_sdk_ext' for > an > > image in my CI loop does always trigger the task to be executed even if > no > > changes where applied either to metadata or to the configuration between > > two iterations. Is this expected? If so, why? Shouldn't SDK artifacts > > exploit the sstate as i.e. images do? > > Ideally yes, but it's hard for us to tell if the metadata has changed or > not, > given that we care not just about the actual metadata but also any other > files > (scripts etc.) that come with it. Thus we've erred on the side of making it > build every time. > Fair enough! Thanks Paul for confirming and clarifying it is intended behaviour.
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