[bitbake-devel] Conditional assignment broken

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Joshua Lock <josh at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 06:50 +0800, James Limbouris wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  Commit 21c21fcc5871e81d8d497b6baed605cdd74c4571 breaks conditional assignment
>>  in all conf files. Previously, the environment was copied from a
>> cleaned up os environment.
>>  After the commit, a pristine environment is available in
>> data['_data'], and will be copied to
>>  data[] on conditional assignment, defying BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE.
>> Variables not conditionally
>>  assigned will still be available from data['_data'], also in defiance
>> of BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE.
>>
>>  To verify, simply:
>>
>>  export RANDOMENV=42
>>  bitbake -e | grep RANDOMENV
>
> Thanks for the report James, and apologies for the breakage. I'll try
> and get a fix submitted and merged asap.
>
> I'm now wondering if we want the pristine environment, or the cleaned
> environment, saved.

For things like devshell, I think it would be nice to retain a copy of
the original, unmodified environment.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics