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Stuck tainted task

DISCUSSION Gary Thomas 1 participant 1 message Jul 20, 2016

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Sometimes I like to make a quick change/test, e.g. in the Linux kernel, and then rebuild using
% bitbake virtual/kernel -C compile
This works great and does just what I want. However, the "tainted task" flag remains even if the recipe is rebuilt from scratch, say after I commit the change and update my kernel recipe. Shouldn't it be cleared if some task (step/phase) which precedes it is run?

To be clear, this message happens every run after the "-C compile" run:
WARNING: /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-fsl-arm-extra/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-boundary_3.14.52.bb.do_compile is
tainted from a forced run
and the only way to clear it is to run
% bitbake virtual/kernel -c clean

Is this behavior correct, or buggy?

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