On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 18:10 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 17:54 +0000, Shmuel Hazan wrote:
> > I noticed a strange behavior of bitbake, and I am not sure whether
> > it is a
> > bug:
> > 
> > Let say that I have a simple recipe that takes the directory
> > `THISDIR/files/A`
> > and install all the files inside of it:
> > 
> > ...
> > SRC_URI = "file://A/" 
> > S = "${WORKDIR}/A"
> > do_install() {
> >     install -m 644 ${S}/* ${D}
> > }
> > ...
> > 
> > Let say that I have one file called "my_file" inside of that
> > directory. 
> > 
> > It will work great, and I will get a package with "/myfile" --
> > until I will
> > rename a file to "/myfile1" in the directory. Since the file
> > content stayed
> > the same, do_fetch won't be triggered and as a result, the package
> > will stay
> > the same and have "/myfile". 
> > 
> > The only proper way to workaround it was to mark this recipe's
> > do_fetch as
> > nostamp:
> > 
> > do_fetch[nostamp] = "1" 
> > 
> > I am currently working with bitbake 1.46.0. 
> > 
> > Questions:
> > 1. Is this a known issue?
> > 2. I could not find any reference to a similar issue / a recent
> > change that
> > could have caused the issue, am I doing something wrong here?
> 
> I'm pretty sure we fixed bugs like that in more recent versions.
> 

Thanks! 

For a reference, b4975d2ecf615ac4c240808fbc5a3f879a93846b
(fetch2/checksum/siggen: Fix taskhashes not tracking file directories)
from 2~ months ago seems to solve that issue. 

I see that the checksum code was not changed for a long time, is there
a chance that someone would accept a backport of this commit to
Dunfell/1.46? 

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 

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