[OE-core] [PATCH 0/5] network based PR service

[Koen Kooi]

Op 19 mei 2011, om 13:38 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:

> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 12:54 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Op 19 mei 2011, om 12:29 heeft Lianhao Lu het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> From: Lianhao Lu <lianhao.lu at intel.com>
>>> 
>>> This series of 5 patches implemented the network based PR service and enabled 
>>> the poky to use it during the task do_package and do_package_write_xxx. By 
>>> using the network based PR service and the basichash for BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER, 
>>> the poky user may not need to bump the PR manually everytime he/she changes 
>>> the recipe. The package will get automatically rebuilt and new revision number 
>>> reflecting the change will be included in the package feed.
>> 
>> Does it have a public/private mode? In the angstrom case, we only want
>> developers to 'submit' PR bumps and users only retrieve them.
> 
> It doesn't look like it but it wouldn't be hard to only submit PR
> changes if some kind of token was present.
> 
> The big question would be, if a user tried building something for which
> PR no record was on the server and didn't have submit privileges, what
> should the server return and how should the build behave? Hard error?
> 
> If its not a hard error, you are likely to run into local
> reproducibility issues and also conflicts with the server?

I would go for a warning on the client side and an error in the log in the server side. If the server people care enough they'll check the log for errors and add the missing info.

I think we need to give this a try and see what improvements we need.

regards,

Koen