Re: [PATCH 2/2] bitbake: build.py: check dependendent task for addtask

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 18:48 +0200, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 5:30 PM Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 11:51, Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I'm getting a lot of these warnings after removing tmp/ and
> > > rebuilding
> > > my image from sstate cache.
> > > FWIW I use rm_work.bbclass, and regularly use the
> > > sstate-cache-management,sh script to prune old cache.
> > 
> > There's a patch I hacked up in master-next that shows where these
> > warnings are coming from.  Yes, this patch produces two warnings
> > per
> > recipe with rm_work enabled.
> 
> argh... i hit the same issue and came up with the exact same
> conclusion.. i should have checked the mailing list earlier today ;)
> 
> I am getting thousands of warnings like that with rm_work. I had
> modified bitbake so that it shows the 'task' name like Ross, in ().

I suspect we're going to need to rethink that patch, and/or perhaps
rm_work...

I did have concerns about it but was assured it was widely tested. We
also probably need an rm_work test case on the autobuilder (need a bug
for that so we don't forget?).

Cheers,

Richard