In local.conf add an INHERIT += "distrodata" run bitbake -c distro_check core-image-minimal Results in: ERROR: When reparsing /srv/sdb/releases/morty/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb.do_distro_check, the basehash value changed from 0531b2385beb6669f3603a37f015c2d5 to af2b2c29f037cbc7bb469c495a906191. The metadata is not deterministic and this needs to be fixed. ERROR: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_distro_check: Taskhash mismatch 9f4dc2fa5f285640f07bc837dcc0df8f versus 39aea0377e7accc86339217f36e0648d for /srv/sdb/releases/morty/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb.do_distro_check
Just a simple vardepsexclude missing, patch on the list.
Fixed in oe-core e6784ef0d56a1b297001bc59c0da3aecebd1c656.