[bitbake-devel] [PATCH v2 0/1] Automatically paginate bitbake -e output

[Diana Thayer]

Given the change in behavior, should we also include changes to the
documentation for the affected flags?

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Rob Woolley <rob.woolley at windriver.com>
wrote:

> The bitbake show_versions (-s) and show_environment (-e) commands provide
> a lot of non-interactive output.  Even experienced users will sometimes
> forget to page the output.
>
> This enhancement adds a feature to automatically page these commands when
> using the knotty user interface.  It doesn't affect any other commands
> and is designed to work in a similar fashion to the auto-paging in git.
>
> This was tested with bitbake -s and bitbake -s | less (and -e) to ensure
> that
> there were no regressions.  This includes testing broken pipe conditions
> caused by quitting the pager before the full output has been sent through
> the pipe.
>
> This is an update of my previous patch from February 2015 and adds support
> for Python 3 and utf-8.
>
> PATCH v1: https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/89543/
> YOCTO #9203: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9203
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/bitbake-devel/attachments/20170629/3ed950fc/attachment-0002.html>