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authorAlexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>2024-03-18 16:02:09 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2024-03-19 15:22:27 +0000
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dev-manual: improve descriptions of 'bitbake -S printdiff'
Try to particularly emphasize that it can be used to find out why something rebuilds when it shouldn't. (From yocto-docs rev: cfaf2707b4a77888316d5eb24bf41ccc21e2c12b) Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -775,10 +775,9 @@ your tunings to best consider build times and package feed maintenance.
775 in the script for information on how to use the tool. 775 in the script for information on how to use the tool.
776 776
777 - *BitBake's "-S printdiff" Option:* Using this option causes 777 - *BitBake's "-S printdiff" Option:* Using this option causes
778 BitBake to try to establish the closest signature match it can 778 BitBake to try to establish the most recent signature match
779 (e.g. in the shared state cache) and then run ``bitbake-diffsigs`` 779 (e.g. in the shared state cache) and then compare matched signatures
780 over the matches to determine the stamps and delta where these two 780 to determine the stamps and delta where these two stamp trees diverge.
781 stamp trees diverge.
782 781
783Building Software from an External Source 782Building Software from an External Source
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