[poky] RFC/RFT Checksums as part of stamp files

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/06/2011 03:56 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> We've been working on checksums and sstate for a while, one of the
> pieces we've not put in place so far is using the checksums in the stamp
> files.
    ... snip
> My proposal for dealing with this will be to start having the packaging
> backend take ownership of PE and PR fields. These should be auto
> incremented when the build changes. That in itself is easy enough if you
> have one build area, the tricky bit is where you have multiple build
> sources feeding into a common packages repo like Angstrom.
>
> For this we're going to need some kind of network service that takes a
> version and provides the PE/PR values back, incrementing them each time
> it sees a new version/checksum.

How would this play with non-core packages/recipes, e.g. the ones that
are only in my local trees?

Also, how could this work in a no-network-available environment?

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