[bitbake-devel] [PATCH v2] fetcher: fix BB_STRICT_CHECKSUM datatype check

[Alejandro Hernandez]

That is very true, I will fix that, thanks for pointing it out.

On 09/10/14 15:27, Christopher Larson wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Alejandro Hernandez 
> <alejandro.hernandez at linux.intel.com 
> <mailto:alejandro.hernandez at linux.intel.com>> wrote:
>
>     It does not change behavior but it forces the value to be a
>     string, avoiding related problems when performing comparisons on
>     "strict", another option as Richard Purdie suggested would be to
>     import the boolean function from /meta/lib/oe/types.py in OE-Core
>     into a new types module in bitbake, forcing it to get a "good"
>     value that we could then use.
>
>
> No, that's incorrect. The second argument of getVar is a boolean 
> argument named 'expand', which controls whether you get an expanded or 
> unexpanded value. You're now passing a string in boolean context.
> -- 
> Christopher Larson
> clarson at kergoth dot com
> Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> Maintainer - Tslib
> Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics

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