[yocto] confusion about DEPENDS vs RDEPENDS

[Paul D. DeRocco]

> From: Nicolas Dechesne
> 
> if the source code changes, the version of the recipe needs 
> to change too. if you change the source code without bumping 
> the version, the package might not be rebuilt properly 
> indeed. and that can explain the behavior you are seeing. if 
> 'someapp' does not change, it would be rebuilt only if one of 
> its dependencies was rebuilt. 

If you're making lots of changes in the course of debugging, isn't it
reasonable just to do a cleansstate on the recipe to force it to be
rebuilt?

-- 

Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com