[poky] [PATCH] oeqa/selftest/systemd_boot: Never use cleansstate in QA tests without special handling of SSTATE_DIR

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Sun Jul 15 12:29:17 PDT 2018


On 15 July 2018 at 16:17,  <poky-bounces at yoctoproject.org> wrote:
> Removing things straight from the live sstate directory is prone to issues
> since other builds may be relying on the artefact presence.
>
> Also, cleansstate is very slow on the huge sstate that the autobuilder has
> on slow NFS drives. This may well be causing long buildtimes in oe-selftest
> as the time taken to remove the artefact by be long.

Argh, I thought we vetted selftest for this sort of thing already.

Does the test still do the right thing with this?  Several instances
where it really wanted to build in the past I've replaced with bitbake
foo -C unpack or similar.

Ross


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