[OE-core] [PATCH 0/5 V2] refactor the archiver*.bbclass

[Robert Yang]

Hi Ross,

Thanks for your reply, please see my comments inline.

On 02/27/2014 09:05 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Having a look at this and playing with my own toy archiver makes me
> think that this shouldn't be using the postfuncs at all.
>

Yes, I gree as we had talked.

> The main task, deploy_archives, should depend on the subtasks that it
> needs and be simply ordered before do_build.  I see that your code
> does this but changes it to be before do_rootfs if the recipe is an
> image: I'm not sure I understand why this is as do_rootfs is just a
> task that executes before do_build so this shouldn't need
> special-casing.
>

This part of code is derived from the previous archiver.bbclass, I will
remove it.

> Why did you implement the subtasks as postfuncs instead of normal
> tasks?  This has the effect of causing more work to be done if the

What I had thought was that use the postfuncs will always make sure it
will run, for example, if do_unpack runs, then do_unpack[postfuncs] will
always run, but if we use a new task:

addtask do_ar_unpacked after do_unpack before do_patch

If do_patch doesn't run, the do_ar_unpacked would not run either, as had
talked, we will use new ${S}, so this problem will be gone, I will use
new tasks.

> archiver needs to run: for example do_ar_unpacked() is a postfunc on
> do_unpack so either enabling/disabling the archiver or editing the
> archiver class causes the do_unpack hash to change, so everything
> afterwards (do_patch, do_configure, do_compile, ...) has to
> re-execute.
>
> My toy archiver was implemented as a new task which is after do_fetch
> but before do_build.  This means that it executes after fetch has
> completed but is outside of the
> fetch->patch->configure->compile->install sequence.
>
> https://github.com/rossburton/meta-ross/blob/master/classes/rearchiver.bbclass
>
> (it also has a way of archiving the original sources in a way that
> actually archives the original sources)

Great, thanks, I will send a V3 sooner.

// Robert


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