7030 2014-12-04 17:11:07 +0000 Re-building meta package does not trigger image rebuilds 2014-12-09 14:18:00 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime BitBake bitbake 1.5.3 x86 Multiple RESOLVED WONTFIX Undecided normal --- 1 mikko.rapeli richard.purdie poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher --- --- Don't know oldest_to_newest 47378 0 mikko.rapeli 2014-12-04 17:11:07 +0000 I'm building a custom yocto 1.5.3 based distro with a number of layers. To simplify building I created a meta package which depends on all real target images, sdk, tests etc. But it seems that image recipies are not build when they are listed in DEPENDS += "image sdk" of the meta package. With yocto 1.6 this is working as expected. I verified with 'bitbake -g meta-package' that dependency to image recipe is correctly recorded, and 'bitbake image' naturally works. Tried to go through patches in poky/bitbake poky/meta/classes which might be fixing this but didn't find them yet. 47387 1 mikko.rapeli 2014-12-05 08:13:19 +0000 I'm also using SSTATE_CACHE if it matters. From 'bitbake -g meta' output I can see that package dependencies are correct, but task-depends.dot does not show any of the image tasks. I guess this is the problem then. None of the image tasks get executed via the meta package dependency. 47390 2 mikko.rapeli 2014-12-05 09:30:03 +0000 Found a workaround by using inter-task dependencies http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#inter-task-dependencies In meta package .bb: do_build[depends] += "image:do_install_version_info" It seems that version info is the last task executed on our layers when creating the image. 47458 3 richard.purdie 2014-12-09 14:18:00 +0000 Using DEPENDS for this may not do what you expect. DEPENDS means that the do_configure of the task should depend on the do_populate_sysroot of the thing in DEPENDS. These are equivalent: DEPENDS += "xxxx" and do_configure[depends] += "xxxx:do_populate_sysroot" In the case of a rootfs, you want the do_rootfs task, not do_populate_sysroot so DEPENDS is not the correct thing to use. You are therefore correct in adding the dependencies. The change between 1.5.and 1.6 was likely some fixes to do_build dependencies and recrdep dependency handling in bitbake. Those changes were problematic/invasive and will not be backported to 1.5 at this point. As such I'm going to mark this as WONTFIX.