[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 01/10] knotty: provide a symlink to the latest console log

[Paul Eggleton]

If you're looking to find the latest console log repeatedly it can be a bit
tedious - let's just create a symlink just as we do with other logs to
make it easy to find.

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
---
 lib/bb/ui/knotty.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/bb/ui/knotty.py b/lib/bb/ui/knotty.py
index 9605c8e..ddd36d5 100644
--- a/lib/bb/ui/knotty.py
+++ b/lib/bb/ui/knotty.py
@@ -287,6 +287,12 @@ def main(server, eventHandler, params, tf = TerminalFilter):
         bb.msg.addDefaultlogFilter(consolelog)
         consolelog.setFormatter(conlogformat)
         logger.addHandler(consolelog)
+        loglink = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(consolelogfile), 'console-latest.log')
+        bb.utils.remove(loglink)
+        try:
+           os.symlink(os.path.basename(consolelogfile), loglink)
+        except OSError:
+           pass
 
     llevel, debug_domains = bb.msg.constructLogOptions()
     server.runCommand(["setEventMask", server.getEventHandle(), llevel, debug_domains, _evt_list])
-- 
2.5.5