[bitbake-devel] devtool hardcodes using 'git' patchtool which causes errors

[Adrian Ambrożewicz]

I see. However - this looks like quite a minefield :)

W dniu 1/21/2020 o 11:49, Alexander Kanavin pisze:
> I am not entirely sure about this, but I believe devtool is using git to 
> keep track of patches when modifying or upgrading (e.g. adding, 
> modifying or rebasing custom recipe patches), so using quilt may not be 
> an option. Fixing the scenarios that go wrong for you is probably a 
> better path.
> 
> Alex
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 10:44, Adrian Ambrożewicz 
> <adrian.ambrozewicz at linux.intel.com 
> <mailto:adrian.ambrozewicz at linux.intel.com>> wrote:
> 
>     In poky sources i can see that default PATCHTOOL used is 'quilt'
>     (https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/blob/master/meta/conf/bitbake.conf)
> 
>     and it works flawlessly. Devtool however still defaults to legacy 'git'
>     PATCHTOOL, as specified here:
>     http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/plain/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
>        > f.write('PATCHTOOL = "git"\n')
> 
>     Request:
>     I've tried to debug the problem but I'm not very familiar with Bitbake
>     code, so I wonder if we could default to 'quilt' for devtool as well?
> 
>     Rationale:
>     'git' PATCHER doesn't work well when he have nested WORKDIR and
>     striplevel used. 'bitbake -c patch [pkg]' works fine, but 'devtool
>     modify [pkg]' fails with weird behavior. For example - new files
>     created
>     by patches are created in wrong location (WORKDIR instead of nested
>     directory) and package doesn't compile until manually fixed.
> 
>     Regards,
>     Adrian
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