Bug 5557

Summary:	An easy way to build recipe from source
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Undecided	CC:	bluelightning, mark.hatle, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, richard.purdie, sgw
Version:	1.6
Target Milestone:	1.6 M4
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Robert Yang 2013-11-19 08:20:34 UTC

When we have the SSTATE_DIR or SSTATE_MIRRORS, we may need to build it from source rather than mirrored, this is useful for development and testing. Currently, we can run do_cleansstate or disable the SSTATE_MIRRORS temporally, but this is not easy enough, it would be better if we have something like:

bitbake recipe -cno_mirror (or no_sstate/build_from_source, etc.)

Then it will build from source.

Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2013-11-20 12:15:47 UTC

Forcing with -f or -C should already be able to accomplish this - because it randomly taints the signatures, sstate packages won't be re-used.

Comment 2 Richard Purdie 2013-11-21 15:42:45 UTC

There is the --no-setscene option to bitbake for this so the functionality already exists.