[poky] SVN woes persist

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 17:15 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I updated to include these changes and gave it a try.  Here's what I did:
> 
>    % mkdir /work/new_build
>    % cd /work/poky_tree
>    % . poky-init-build-env /work/new_build
>      ... adjust DL_DIR, etc in conf/local.conf
>          SSTATE_MIRRORS is not defined yet
>    % bitbake some-image
> 
>    % mv sstate-cache sstate
>    % mv tmp tmp.old
>      ... adjust conf/local.conf to set SSTATE_MIRRORS like this
>          SSTATE_MIRRORS ?= "\
>          file://.* file:///work/new_build/sstate/"
> 
>    % bitbake some-image
> 
> First of all, it took an incredible length of time (maybe a minute on my fast machine)
> to even move past the resolve step.  Then it went off spewing lines about the state files
> (sadly I didn't save them).  It then proceeded to run through some 322 steps, telling me
> more about state files.  This took quite some time.  Then it seemed to just start the
> normal build all over, apparently without regard to any of the sstate info.
> 
> Did I miss something?  Is this how it should work?
> 
> Sorry to be such a pain over this, but I'd really like to see this part working.
> If there's something I can help with it, please let me know - I know my way around
> Python code, but I don't know all the internals of how you expect this to work.

Sorry not to get back to you sooner, I'm being pulled in a few different
directions and we're coming up to release.

In my own tests I've noticed a few issues and I've just pushed a number
of fixes into the master branch which should help in various areas. 

With regard to your specific test and problem, it shouldn't rebuild
everything. It turns out that I'd tested with http:// mirror urls and
not file:// ones which needed and extra piece of code to handle them
correctly.

Have another try with master and see if things are better this time!

Cheers,

Richard