This seems to be a regressions since it worked couple of weeks back doing bitbake -cfetchall world only fetches the sources for packages that it needs to build as prerequisites to enable fetchers and nothing else is fetched however when I do bitbake <image> then it fetches the tars for packages its building as part of the image build.
Which bitbake version was this?
(In reply to comment #1) > Which bitbake version was this? latest top of tree in poky from 07/18
I've tested this locally and it is doing what you'd expect, running do_fetch for pretty much everything. I therefore don't know why this isn't working for you :(. Are you using OE-Core or some subset of it? Did you get some of the recent recrdepends changes?
Specifically, check http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=5c581b2610cb84362c00ee32754a87acfd15a64d is applied
This works fine in master. I'm going to assume Khem was missing the metadata change mentioned here. Please reopen if there is still an issue with that applied.
it worked for me today so seems yes, I will see if it happens again
Setting this to verified as this issue does not occur anymore