Typically a single change cascades through the entire task dependency
chain. Developers had to figure that out themselves, based on hard to
read and interpret output (not sorted, no indention, no explanations):
$ yocto-compat-layer.py -n meta-xxxx
...
AssertionError: True is not false : Layer meta-xxxx changed signatures.
webkitgtk:do_install changed fe2edc9082bc0da98f9cb1391c52f565 -> b3a44684c5cd9aacd3f7c6ed88eefab5
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:do_configure changed 3b2f8211be3fe08422bf6087f3af16d1 -> 7d80e42fa1f4f01ff4dfe2ea4477d382
pulseaudio:do_package_qa changed 5d0a58ada66ff17f5576555302ac319a -> 0e13bcb96143d1ae54c451bc3de0aa30
epiphany:do_prepare_recipe_sysroot changed 29e1b277dbcb005bd54950594c50d91b -> d3c45527b37677a0668ce483c6db3052
...
gst-player:do_packagedata changed 9ce6efdd357dd74919bc4957458b1e95 -> d0c083ce629f37adfc9c4ba9eff81f83
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:do_install changed 1161cd867d15bea63e5dd5d9abf0519c -> 5bf2b652a2d77fee3eedb35af2f201a0
gstreamer1.0-rtsp-server:do_packagedata changed 6781dc3070f80b843ed1970d74dd323e -> 454620c2e3b9fea87e525d14b6ed0344
alsa-plugins:do_packagedata changed 1808c3f737cb805b169d004e948ea19c -> 480124b7fa5eab1f73bf96440d725231
Now the tool automates the problem analysis: it retrieves the depgraph
using the tinfoil API and only reports those tasks with modified
signatures whose dependencies have not changed, i.e. those tasks which
definitely introduce a change.
>From the previous example, that just leaves two tasks that need to be
checked:
AssertionError: False is not true : Layer meta-xxxx changed 120 signatures, initial differences (first hash without, second with layer):
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:do_fetch: 76973f19f2e30d282152bdd7e4efe5bb -> e6e7c6fa9f2bd59d7d8d107f7c6ca1ac
pulseaudio:do_install: 668eb1e30af129df9806b0aa0d7c10cd -> 1196bdb88eef56eeee4613bb06b9387e
This pruning might be a bit too aggressive in the sense that tasks
which inherit a change and then add more changes themselves won't be
reported initially. They will be found when fixing the reported tasks
and re-running the check.
For a developer it seems better to have something listed which
definitely is a problem and needs fixing instead of everything,
including the tasks which don't need fixes.
(From OE-Core rev: 7ab0e09de75bfd7e7498bfa72d1f2f5d02a96747)
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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