1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253 |
- <html>
- <head>
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
- <title>2.4. Maintaining Build Output Quality</title>
- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../book.css">
- <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1">
- <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Yocto Project Reference Manual">
- <link rel="up" href="usingpoky.html" title="Chapter 2. Using the Yocto Project">
- <link rel="prev" href="usingpoky-debugging-others.html" title="2.3.8. Other Tips">
- <link rel="next" href="enabling-and-disabling-build-history.html" title="2.4.1. Enabling and Disabling Build History">
- </head>
- <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="section" title="2.4. Maintaining Build Output Quality">
- <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
- <a name="maintaining-build-output-quality"></a>2.4. Maintaining Build Output Quality</h2></div></div></div>
- <p>
- A build's quality can be influenced by many things.
- For example, if you upgrade a recipe to use a new version of an upstream software
- package or you experiment with some new configuration options, subtle changes
- can occur that you might not detect until later.
- Consider the case where your recipe is using a newer version of an upstream package.
- In this case, a new version of a piece of software might introduce an optional
- dependency on another library, which is auto-detected.
- If that library has already been built when the software is building,
- then the software will link to the built library and that library will be pulled
- into your image along with the new software even if you did not want the
- library.
- </p>
- <p>
- The <code class="filename">buildhistory</code> class exists to help you maintain
- the quality of your build output.
- You can use the class to highlight unexpected and possibly unwanted
- changes in the build output.
- When you enable build history it records information about the contents of
- each package and image and then commits that information to a local Git
- repository where you can examine the information.
- </p>
- <p>
- The remainder of this section describes the following:
- </p>
- <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc">
- <li class="listitem"><p>How you can enable and disable
- build history</p></li>
- <li class="listitem"><p>How to understand what the build history contains
- </p></li>
- <li class="listitem"><p>How to limit the information used for build history
- </p></li>
- <li class="listitem"><p>How to examine the build history from both a
- command-line and web interface</p></li>
- </ul></div>
- <p>
- </p>
- </div></body>
- </html>
|