[OE-core] [PATCH] ptest.bblass: Fix package QA issues when disabled

[Nathan Rossi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie [mailto:richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 10:58 PM
> To: Nathan Rossi
> Cc: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] ptest.bblass: Fix package QA issues when
> disabled
> 
> On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 17:05 +1000, Nathan Rossi wrote:
> > When the ptest distro feature is disabled, a ptest directory is still
> > created in the install phase, This directory is not cleaned up or
> > consumed by any package and will throw a QA error, e.g.
> >
> > ERROR: QA Issue: glib-2.0: Files/directories were installed but not
> > shipped
> >   /usr/lib/glib-2.0/ptest
> > ERROR: QA run found fatal errors. Please consider fixing them.
> > ERROR: Function failed: do_package_qa
> >
> > This is caused by the do_install_ptest_base[cleandirs] task flag which
> > is not setup to be conditional on ptest being enabled. This patch
> > changes the task flag to emit the cleandirs path only when the ptest
> > distro feature is enabled.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Rossi <nathan.rossi at xilinx.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/classes/ptest.bbclass |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/classes/ptest.bbclass b/meta/classes/ptest.bbclass
> > index ec10f80..3450085 100644
> > --- a/meta/classes/ptest.bbclass
> > +++ b/meta/classes/ptest.bbclass
> > @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ do_install_ptest_base() {
> >      fi
> >  }
> >
> > -do_install_ptest_base[cleandirs] = "${D}${PTEST_PATH}"
> > +do_install_ptest_base[cleandirs] = "${@['',
> '${D}${PTEST_PATH}'][(d.getVar('PTEST_ENABLED', True) or '') == '1']}"
> >
> >  addtask configure_ptest_base after do_configure before do_compile
> >  addtask compile_ptest_base   after do_compile   before do_install
> 
> How about we use the new add/deltask api to conditionally add these
> tasks only when ptest is enabled?

Just wanted to double check, by add/deltask you are referring to calling the bb.build.*task() functions in an anonymous function correct?

> 
> The number of conditionals in there is getting silly...

When I respin the patch I will refactor the other conditionals such that it removes all ptest_base tasks when disabled instead of the conditional checks in each task.

Regards,
Nathan