On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 11:44 +0100, Konrad Weihmann wrote:
> I have a bunch of custom testcases (oeqa/runtime/cases) which are 
> interacting with "d" from the build host - basically fetching some
> info 
> while executing the test, e.g.
> 
> foo = self.tc.td['MY_CUSTOM_VAR']
> 
> What I've seen is that these files create python __pycache__ files 
> during parsing of the testimage run.
> 
> On the initial run everything is working like expected, but if I now 
> change the variable "MY_CUSTOM_VAR", without modifying the 
> target-filesystem the value inside the test case doesn't get updated.
> 
> Did anyone else encountered this?
> 
> To me it seems like the value of the var does make it into the
> pycache 
> files, ignoring the updated value on a second run.
> 
> On that note: wouldn't it make sense to disable the cache creation
> for 
> oeqa test cases? just to mitigate chances of such scenarios?
> 
> Or maybe I'm doing something wrong here, so any pointers are highly 
> appreciated.

FWIW this doesn't sound right to me. pyc files (in __pycache__) would
cache the code, not data so I don't see how these values would be
preserved there. I don't doubt you're seeing some kind of issue but I
suspect its more likely bitbake's cache or something...

Cheers,

Richard

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