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| author |   Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com> | 2024-03-18 15:52:18 +0100 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2024-03-21 12:18:54 +0000 |
| commit | becf88c2250a47102c8d36ad8b40839e0bfa9137 (patch) | |
| tree | 350b955dfde7d4cde2722f3508224226de87513c /doc | |
| parent | 0a33b560233b983456178541603ab96fea22238b (diff) | |
| download | bitbake-becf88c2250a47102c8d36ad8b40839e0bfa9137.tar.gz | |
bitbake: improve descriptions of '-S printdiff'
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.rst index 4fa3ca4b5..d58fbb32e 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.rst +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.rst @@ -586,10 +586,11 @@ or possibly those defined in the metadata/signature handler itself. The simplest parameter to pass is "none", which causes a set of signature information to be written out into ``STAMPS_DIR`` corresponding to the targets specified. The other currently available parameter is -"printdiff", which causes BitBake to try to establish the closest +"printdiff", which causes BitBake to try to establish the most recent signature match it can (e.g. in the sstate cache) and then run -``bitbake-diffsigs`` over the matches to determine the stamps and delta -where these two stamp trees diverge. +compare the matched signatures to determine the stamps and delta +where these two stamp trees diverge. This can be used to determine why +tasks need to be re-run in situations where that is not expected. .. note:: |