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@@ -1963,6 +1963,15 @@ task output from the Shared State cache. | |||
1963 | the stability of the task's output hash. Therefore, the effectiveness | 1963 | the stability of the task's output hash. Therefore, the effectiveness |
1964 | of Hash Equivalence strongly depends on it. | 1964 | of Hash Equivalence strongly depends on it. |
1965 | 1965 | ||
1966 | Recipes that are not reproducible may have undesired behavior if hash | ||
1967 | equivalence is enabled, since the non-reproducible diverging output maybe be | ||
1968 | remapped to an older sstate object in the cache by the server. If a recipe | ||
1969 | is non-reproducible in trivial ways, such as different timestamps, this is | ||
1970 | likely not a problem. However recipes that have more dramatic changes (such | ||
1971 | as completely different file names) will likely outright fail since the | ||
1972 | downstream sstate objects are not actually equivalent to what was just | ||
1973 | built. | ||
1974 | |||
1966 | This applies to multiple scenarios: | 1975 | This applies to multiple scenarios: |
1967 | 1976 | ||
1968 | - A "trivial" change to a recipe that doesn't impact its generated output, | 1977 | - A "trivial" change to a recipe that doesn't impact its generated output, |