Bug 10194

Summary: bitbake-whatchanged is broken
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Component: Scripts and ToolsAssignee: Unassigned <unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: Aryaman.Gupta, eduard.bartosh, mariano.lopez, randy.macleod, richard.purdie, ross.burton
Version: 2.3   
Target Milestone: 5.99   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know
Bug Depends on: 10193    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Robert Yang 2016-08-30 08:57:19 UTC 
It uses "STAMPS_DIR=/another/dir bitbake -S none <recipe>" to generate new stamps and compare to old stamps to get the data, but now once STAMPS_DIR is changed, the old stamps and work dir will be removed, so that it doesn't work any more.

We may look for other ways to fix it in YP 2.3, for example, add handler or use the handler printdiff for -S to fix the problem.

And comments from RP:
I don't believe that script always worked as it should and I really want to see usecases and better tests of what its showing rather than just blindly reimplmenting it in runqueue.py
Comment 1 Randy MacLeod 2020-04-23 07:51:07 UTC 
delete bitbake-whatchanged since it has been broken for years.
Comment 2 Randy MacLeod 2022-05-05 15:20:35 UTC 
WE'll check and perhaps remove the script.
Comment 3 Randy MacLeod 2023-10-24 14:24:50 UTC 
Bulk move from 4.99 or 0.00 to 5.99
Comment 4 Ross Burton 2025-10-23 15:08:43 UTC 
Removed from f8193978eb0944e693e6a5cfbf9035e104e489f0.