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The package instrumentation step 'step_pkg_size' is populating the files:
output/build/packages-file-list.txt
output/build/packages-file-list-staging.txt
output/build/packages-file-list-host.txt
by comparing the list of files before and after installation of a package,
with some clever tricks to detect changes to existing files etc.
As an optimization, instead of gathering this list before and after each
package, where the 'after-state' of one package is the same as the
'before-state' of the next package, only the 'after-state' is used and
is shared between packages.
This works fine, except at the end of the build, as explained next.
In the target-finalize step, many files will be touched. For example, files
like /etc/hosts, /etc/os-release, but also all object files that are
stripped, and all files touched by post-build scripts or created by rootfs
overlays. This means that the 'after-state' of the last package does not
reflect the actual situation after target-finalize is run.
For a single complete build this poses no problem. But, if one incrementally
rebuilds a package after the initial build, e.g. with 'make foo-rebuild',
then all changes that happened in target-finalize at the end of the initial
build (the 'after-state' of the last package built) will be detected as
changes caused by the rebuild of package foo. As a result, all these files
will incorrectly be treated as 'owned' by package foo.
Correct this situation by capturing a new state at the end of
target-finalize, so that the 'before-state' of an incremental build will be
correct.
Note: the reasoning above talks about packages-file-list.txt and
target-finalize, but also applies to
packages-file-list-staging.txt/staging-finalize and
packages-file-list-host.txt/host-finalize.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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