archiver.bbclass: do not cause kernel rebuilds

Adding or removing archiver.bbclass from a build configuration causes
rebuilds of linux-yocto-based kernels because of the
do_kernel_configme->do_unpack_and_patch task dependency.

This particular dependency can be ignored for the do_kernel_configme
sstate signature calculcation. Idea for the fix from Richard Purdie.

Note that building the kernel and adding archiver.bbclass later to
archive sources leads to do_unpack_and_patch running after
do_kernel_configme (because that already ran in the first build),
which might be problematic. This is independent of the change here.

The use case in YOCTO #11441 is to removed archiver.bbclass between a
production build with archiving enabled and builds via oe-selftests
without archiving. That direction is fine.

Fixes: YOCTO #11441

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/archiver.bbclass b/meta/classes/archiver.bbclass
index ea00ab33da..647d2cf2d7 100644
--- a/meta/classes/archiver.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/archiver.bbclass
@@ -442,7 +442,10 @@ do_deploy_all_archives() {
 }
 
 python () {
-    # Add tasks in the correct order, specifically for linux-yocto to avoid race condition
+    # Add tasks in the correct order, specifically for linux-yocto to avoid race condition.
+    # sstatesig.py:sstate_rundepfilter has special support that excludes this dependency
+    # so that do_kernel_configme does not need to run again when do_unpack_and_patch
+    # gets added or removed (by adding or removing archiver.bbclass).
     if bb.data.inherits_class('kernel-yocto', d):
         bb.build.addtask('do_kernel_configme', 'do_configure', 'do_unpack_and_patch', d)
 }