Bug 5557 - An easy way to build recipe from source
Summary: An easy way to build recipe from source
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 1.6
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Undecided enhancement
Target Milestone: 1.6 M4
Assignee: Robert Yang
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Reported: 2013-11-19 08:20 UTC by Robert Yang
Modified: 2013-11-21 15:42 UTC (History)
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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.