[OE-core] [PATCH 0/6] devtool: improve handling of local source files

[Markus Lehtonen]

Hi,

On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 19:01 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> On Thursday 30 April 2015 12:16:06 Markus Lehtonen wrote:
> > This patchset tries to improve handling of local source files (i.e. file://
> > in SRC_URI). First, it improves packages for which S=WORKDIR (that possibly
> > only have local sources. Second, it makes local sources available in the
> > srctree for all packages.
> > 
> > See yocto bug #7602
> 
> I've finally looked at these, apologies for the delay. Some comments:
> 
> * I don't think we really want the local files to become part of the git 
> repository by default - they shouldn't be committed. Once users have finished 
> with devtool, we want them to be able to push the source tree to their own 
> repo and point to that within the recipe, whilst keeping the local files next 
> to the recipe.

So you suggest to add a new command line option to devtool extract and
modify (--local-files or smth)? What to do when there are only local
files (no source tarball / repo) - automatically enable --local-files in
this case?


> * This implies that new files added to the local files dir when we do devtool 
> update-recipe should not be added as a patch, they should be copied next to 
> the recipe and added to SRC_URI. I'm more than happy for us to implement this 
> separately as a follow-up (i.e. we could start by not handling adding files to 
> the local files directory at all.)

Yeah, I actually have this WIP. Currently (i.e. with the current
patchset), new files added to 'local-files' are just ignored. They are
not copied and no patches is generated out of these.


> * The local-files directory needs to be named specific to OE - "oe-local-files" 
> would be ideal. If we could have one place in the code where this was defined 
> that would be ideal as well (maybe at some point we'd allow it to be 
> configured).

This is not a big deal. Should it perhaps be "bb-local-files" instead?


Thanks,
  Markus