| Summary: | Document file checksums | ||
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| Product: | [Documentation] Development Manual | Reporter: | Paul Eggleton <bluelightning> |
| Component: | development | Assignee: | Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | Medium | CC: | bluelightning, sgw, srifenbark |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.7 M2 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Multiple | ||
| Whiteboard: | 02 June 2014: RESOLVED | ||
| OS type for building Yocto: | --- | Type of Regression: | --- |
| Verified: | Documentation change: | Done (doc changes complete) | |
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Description
Paul Eggleton
2013-11-13 16:26:39 UTC
Paul, We could also mention this in the "Closer Look" section where we discuss fetching source files. Scott Paul, I mention these checksums in the new "Writing a New Recipe" section now. See http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#new-recipe-fetching-code. It is down towards the end of the section. Also, in the same overall section in "Licensing", there is some discussion of checksums. See http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#new-recipe-licensing. Additionally, there is stuff in http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#usingpoky-configuring-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM. I am not sure how much (if any of this) you would consider contributing to this bug. Maybe you can comment on that. I think one area that we could mention this is in the SRC_URI variable description of the glossary. I'm afraid this is not related to LIC_FILES_CHKSUM at all; these checksums are internal ones taken for local files so we can detect when they are changed and force a fetch to occur. What about the stuff in the "Writing a New Recipe" section? Don't those have to do with SRC_URI? They do have to do with SRC_URI yes, but those explicit SRC_URI checksums are for *remote* files. Other than that a checksum is being used, and SRC_URI is involved, this feature is not related to either SRC_URI[md5sum]/SRC_URI[sha256sum] or LIC_FILES_CHKSUM. Okay - I will go back to square one on this. Thanks Enhancement - moving to 1.7. Hi, I have inserted a brief note here to deal with how the build system uses checksums during do_fetch to re-execute stuff if a file:// listed in the SRC_URI has had its contents modified. Paul has reviewed the note and approved. I am marking the bug RESOLVED and setting the doc flag to "Done". Thanks, Scott Set to M2 to get it off the lists. |