From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 82510E00A4C; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 03:47:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC5D4E009E6 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 03:47:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 90962F811E7; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 04:47:35 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F12CF811E3; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 04:47:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <557FFED9.40205@mlbassoc.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 04:47:53 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <557ED498.50406@mlbassoc.com> <557F287D.6010406@mlbassoc.com> <557F6B89.5010506@mlbassoc.com> <1510925.QRRL9HzgZN@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1510925.QRRL9HzgZN@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> Subject: Re: sstate black hole? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:47:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2015-06-16 02:37, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Monday 15 June 2015 18:19:21 Gary Thomas wrote: >> I followed this down to an i.MX6 specific package which is >> in DEPENDS: >> Variable PROVIDES value changed from >> '${PN} virtual/wayland-egl virtual/libgal-x11 virtual/egl >> virtual/libopenvg virtual/libg2d virtual/libgl virtual/libgles1 >> virtual/libgles2' to >> '${PN} virtual/wayland-egl virtual/libgal-x11 virtual/egl >> virtual/libopenvg virtual/libg2d virtual/libgl virtual/libgles1 >> virtual/libgles2 virtual/libgl virtual/libgles1 virtual/libgles2' >> >> Why aren't these considered the same (duplicate elements and/or order) >> should not matter for PROVIDES. Is there some way we could get bitbake >> to collapse this and remove the duplicates? >> >> I found that this happens in >> meta-fsl-arm:recipes-graphics/imx-gpu-viv/imx-gpu-viv.inc which contains >> these lines: >> PROVIDES += "virtual/wayland-egl virtual/libgal-x11 virtual/egl >> virtual/libopenvg virtual/libg2d" >> PROVIDES_append_mx6q = " virtual/libgl virtual/libgles1 virtual/libgles2" >> PROVIDES_append_mx6dl = " virtual/libgl virtual/libgles1 virtual/libgles2" >> PROVIDES_append_mx6sx = " virtual/libgl virtual/libgles1 virtual/libgles2" >> >> Some i.MX6 targets, nitrogen6x in particular, has overrides for both mx6q >> and mx6dl, hence the duplication. >> >> Note: I removed the extra override (for testing) and found that >> now the packages built by target A can be shared via sstate with >> target B (at least the few I tested) > > I agree this would be nice, but for this to work we'd probably need to > introduce a typing system within bitbake so that it can understand that this > variable is a space-separated list. That is something we will probably do at > some point for a variety of reasons, but I don't know that it's something we > will get to soon. Is there some way to solve this in the recipe itself? I can see that it needs to make sure that those values are provided for each of the [sub]class of processor, but is there a way to write it so that they are only added once? Perhaps a little bit of Python magic? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------