Y-AB automatic updates?

Hi,

With a latest and greatest Yocto Autobuilder I noticed stuff like this when I restart it:

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Updating PRSERV
remote: Counting objects: 20, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done.
remote: Total 20 (delta 17), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (20/20), done.
From git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake

   35927a9..d9713ed  master     -> origin/master
   35927a9..d9713ed  1.32       -> origin/1.32
 + 21defce...09dd499 master-next -> origin/master-next  (forced update)
Updating 35927a9..d9713ed
Fast-forward
 bin/bitbake         |  2 +-
 lib/bb/__init__.py  |  2 +-
 lib/bb/ui/depexp.py | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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This pumps e.g. the bitbake version:

Author: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Oct 11 08:46:35 2016 +0100

bitbake: Update version to 1.32.0

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Is this really intentionally and what's the purpose?

Say you have a build server for your production software and PRSERV is being (randomly) updated. Due to a bug before or after the update the build output might be different.
So you can't reproduce your images any more.

Some people (including myself) really would like to have reproduce able builds.

Is there a "non hacky" way to turn these updates off?

Regards,

Robert

The bitbake repository is fetched by the ab-prserv script, the purpose of which is to run a PRServer for the autobuilder.

The ab-prserv script, and the code which calls it in yocto-start- autobuilder, won't start the script if PRSERV_HOST and PRSERV_PORT aren't set.

If you point PRSERV_HOST and PRSERV_PORT at a non-localhost PRServer the git repo won't be fetched/updated.

Regards,

Joshua

Hi,

I use the Y-AB for nightly builds and to populate DL_DIR and friends. It's also not unusual to use this machine as the "master" PRSERV. What you are saying is that if I do so through the ab-prserv script (which I would like to use) it will automatically update PRServer and suggest as a work around to move my PRServer to another machine?

I would like to use Y-AB and run the PRServer on it as well - ideally by using the script. So I guess I'll need to hack the ab-prserv script.

How can you do QA with the Y-AB in it's "default mode" where it potentially updates the PRServer whenever you restart it? And you need to restart it e.g. to add/modify configuration files. I also can't see any indication which version of the PRServer is being used in the build logs.

Regards,

Robert