On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 13:33 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:06:02PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > > Currently the code has problems differentiating between "gcc-cross" and > > "gcc-cross-initial" > > sstate files. We could add in a ton of special casing but tests show this > > isn't scaling > > well. Using a more unique separator resolves the issue. > > > > The choice of which separator to use is a hard one. We need something which > > isn't commonly > > used in PN, PV, PR, *_OS and *_ARCH which rules out '-', '_' and it needs > > to work ok with > > webservers/http which makes ';' and '%' harder. > > > > The change also sets SSTATE_SWSPEC globally since writing out differently > > named siginfo > > files for the fetch/unpack/patch tasks is a waste of diskspace, the hashes > > match for > > all PN in the majority of cases and if they don't, its not a big issue as > > the hash is > > different. This makes the results from sstate debugging more understandable. > > Can you mention why :: is sometimes used in SWSPEC? > > I guess it's again just for easier differentianting, but maybe it should > be mentioned in commit message.
Its so there are the same number of fields in there, its just empty for the non-arch specific cases. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
