2 files changed, 36 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index 56fe5f2122..fe803f1836 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -210,7 +210,8 @@ addhandler base_eventhandler
 base_eventhandler[eventmask] = "bb.event.ConfigParsed bb.event.BuildStarted bb.event.RecipePreFinalise"
 python base_eventhandler() {
     if isinstance(e, bb.event.ConfigParsed):
-        e.data.setVar("NATIVELSBSTRING", lsb_distro_identifier(e.data))
+        if not e.data.getVar("NATIVELSBSTRING", False):
+            e.data.setVar("NATIVELSBSTRING", lsb_distro_identifier(e.data))
         e.data.setVar('BB_VERSION', bb.__version__)
         pkgarch_mapping(e.data)
         oe.utils.features_backfill("DISTRO_FEATURES", e.data)
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/sstatetests.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/sstatetests.py
index 6281d50066..9258b53210 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/sstatetests.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/sstatetests.py
@@ -237,3 +237,37 @@ BUILD_OS = \"linux\"
         files2 = get_files(topdir + "/tmp-sstatesamehash2/stamps/")
         files2 = [x.replace("tmp-sstatesamehash2", "tmp-sstatesamehash").replace("i686-linux", "x86_64-linux").replace("i686" + targetvendor + "-linux", "x86_64" + targetvendor + "-linux", ) for x in files2]
         self.assertItemsEqual(files1, files2)
+
+
+    def test_sstate_nativelsbstring_same_hash(self):
+        """
+        The sstate checksums should be independent of whichever NATIVELSBSTRING is
+        detected. Rather than requiring two different build machines and running 
+        builds, override the variables manually and check using bitbake -S.
+        """
+
+        topdir = get_bb_var('TOPDIR')
+        targetvendor = get_bb_var('TARGET_VENDOR')
+        self.write_config("""
+TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash\"
+NATIVELSBSTRING = \"DistroA\"
+""")
+        self.track_for_cleanup(topdir + "/tmp-sstatesamehash")
+        bitbake("core-image-sato -S printdiff", ignore_status=True)
+        self.write_config("""
+TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash2\"
+NATIVELSBSTRING = \"DistroB\"
+""")
+        self.track_for_cleanup(topdir + "/tmp-sstatesamehash2")
+        bitbake("core-image-sato -S printdiff", ignore_status=True)
+
+        def get_files(d):
+            f = []
+            for root, dirs, files in os.walk(d):
+                f.extend(os.path.join(root, name) for name in files)
+            return f
+        files1 = get_files(topdir + "/tmp-sstatesamehash/stamps/")
+        files2 = get_files(topdir + "/tmp-sstatesamehash2/stamps/")
+        files2 = [x.replace("tmp-sstatesamehash2", "tmp-sstatesamehash") for x in files2]
+        self.assertItemsEqual(files1, files2)
+