[OE-core] Resetting PR for PR service

[Bryan Evenson]

Richard,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie [mailto:richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:05 PM
> To: Bryan Evenson
> Cc: Openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] Resetting PR for PR service
> 
> On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 19:43 +0000, Bryan Evenson wrote:
> > I am on poky/dylan and I am using the PR service for the first time.  At this
> time I am making some cosmetic .bbappend recipe changes (reordering and
> spacing with no affect on the final built package).  Of course, after rebuilding
> the recipe the PR service bumped the PR since it saw a change in the
> metadata.  I don't want this package PR to change at this time; the package
> would "upgrade" on the next release even though the contents are identical.
> I would like to revert the PR for this package but I am having difficulty.
> >
> > I had not previously used the PR service, so the old package name was
> foo_1.0.0-r0_arm926ejste.ipk.  After being rebuilt, the new package name
> was foo_1.0.0-r0.0_arm926ejste.ipk (added the .0).  I tried to revert the PR
> for this package as follows:
> > 1. Export the current PR service data by calling "bitbake-prserv-tool export
> prserv_export.inc"
> > 2. Moved the file cache/prserv.sqlite3 to effectively delete the PR Service
> database.
> > 3. Opened prserv_export.inc and removed the two lines related to package
> foo.
> > 4. Cleaned package foo by calling "bitbake -c clean foo"
> 
> This is just off the top of my head but have you tried a -c cleansstate here?
> 

I'd misread your response and I tried -c cleanall and that didn't help.  I tried again this time disabling the PR service after the export, then "bitbake -c cleanall foo" followed by "bitbake foo".  I then got the errors stating the PR went backwards and the PR had reverted to what I was looking for.

I think this is a special case since there is no .0 added yet.  I suspect if I wanted to back up a PR that had a value already (such as going from .3 to .2) I could just change the value in the imported text and it'd do what I suspected.  I have a few more packages that were modified that I don't want the PR to change, so I have a few more items I could do some testing with.

> > 5. Imported the PR service data by calling "bitbake-prserv-tool import
> prserv_export.inc"
> > 6. Rebuilt package foo by calling "bitbake foo"
> >
> > After step 6, the resulting package name was still foo_1.0.0-
> r0.0_arm926ejste.ipk.  Is there a step I'm missing in reverting the PR value?
> >
> > On another note, I discovered that to import the prserv data the
> > filename needs to end with .inc, otherwise you get an error stating
> > that Bitbake does not know what to do with the file.  Or more
> > specifically, the file to be imported at least can't be a .txt
> > extension.  If there is a specific file extension needed for import,
> > I'd suggest the info be included on the PR Service wiki.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea. You should be able to update the wiki?

I'll create an account on the wiki and do some edits.

Regards,
Bryan