[yocto] [sstate-cache] using sstate-cache in parallel builds

[Mike Looijmans]

On 02-11-16 15:17, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 2 November 2016 at 13:36, Chris Z. <winotu.email at gmail.com
> <mailto:winotu.email at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is it secure to use in parallel sstate-cache for building images for
>     different target machines ?
>
> Short answer: yes.
>
> The hashes will be different so there's no risk of conflicting files for the
> target, so it's only native recipes that may conflict.  The worst case
> situation here in two parallel builds is that they'll both build the same
> recipe and put it into sstate, there isn't any risk of corruption.

Could I take this one step further:

Would it be safe to store the sstate-cache for a bunch of builds into a single 
directory, with builds running in parallel contributing to that?

Each build would be using a different set of layers, different machines, and 
building different images, but there would be a lot of common things (usually 
they all refer to the same OE branches).

We use a build server to share out sstate-cache for various builds, but as 
projects are getting added, it's getting more complicated with projects using 
the sstate-caches of other projects. It would make things quite simple if all 
builds just pointed to the same sstate-cache directory, so they could share 
whatever they want.

Would that work? I'd think so, but never dared to actually make it so...


Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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