Bug 16222

Summary: AUTOREV cache needs a "timeout" option
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake Reporter: Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Component: bitbakeAssignee: Unassigned <unassigned>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium CC: poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, randy.macleod
Version: 6.0   
Target Milestone: 6.1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Ross Burton 2026-03-30 11:59:18 UTC
It would be useful for the autorev cache to have an expiration time on it, so that a recipe could use autorev but still only hit the network and update once every day.

This would be very useful for recipes that fetch data that is updated often, such as the cvelistv5 repository.