[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] bb/utils.py: add break_hardlinks helper

[richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]

On Thu, 2018-08-16 at 10:57 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 2018-08-16 10:52, richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-08-16 at 10:38 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> > > On 2018-07-10 14:03, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> > 
> > Merged, sorry about the delay. Was there a corresponding OE-Core
> > patch?
> 
> No, I didn't think I could send such patches before this landed in
> bitbake (since any automated test would just flag those as breaking
> everything). What's the normal/proper way to handle such
> dependencies?
> On my end, I've just been running with the patches applied to the
> combined repo.

We normally bump the bitbake version, then have OE-Core depend on the
new bitbake version. Sending the patches is ok as long as you mention
the dependency clearly. 

We prefer to not have version dependency changes but sometimes it can't
be avoided...

> > Also, for new API like this we might want to consider adding some
> > tests
> > to bitbake-selftest...
> 
> I'll look into that.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Richard