[OE-core] PRServer's problem

[Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan]

Hi Robert,

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 04:06:19PM +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> >just wanted to say that we are facing the same issue with PRServer and
> >live updates, looking forward to a possible solution.
> 
> You can try packagefeed-stability.bbclass on master branch now, and please
> feel free to let me know if you find any bugs.
> 
> Usage:
> 
> INHERIT += "packagefeed-stability"

thank you, this sounds great! Is it safe to pull in this class to 2.0.2?
This is what we are currently using, so I could only try it by patching my
2.0.2 based tree.

Kind regards,
Sergey


> >On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 05:31:09PM +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>On 05/18/2016 05:20 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> >>>On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 04:03:58PM +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> >>>>Hi Martin,
> >>>>
> >>>>On 05/18/2016 03:39 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> >>>>>See:
> >>>>>https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5970
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Just using recipe checksum wont work, because the main reason for PR bumps is to
> >>>>>automatically upgrade the packages when one of the dependencies changes .so
> >>>>>version, which you won't detect from recipe checksum of the app which is just
> >>>>>using the library.
> >>>>
> >>>>For the development branch like master, yes, that would happen. But for
> >>>>the stable release like jethro and krogoth, it is unlikely that would
> >>>>happen, and if if does, the user can manually bump the impacted recipe's
> >>>>PR to fix the problem. The current problem is that when *all* recipes'
> >>>>PR are bumped, there is no way to fix the problem.
> >>>
> >>>You can still stop using PR service and start doing manual PR bumps, but
> >>
> >>We can't stop PR service and start doing manual PR bumps since we need keep
> >>update to date with upstream, the changes from upstream don't do the manual
> >>PR, and I don't think that we have to if they can be done automatically.
> >>
> >>>it's quite annoying if you need to bump a lot of recipes you don't
> >>>control :).
> >>
> >>What's your opinion about only consider RDEPENDS for PR service's checksum,
> >>please ?
> >>
> >>// Robert
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>>On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com
> >>>>><mailto:liezhi.yang at windriver.com>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     The PRServer bumps PR according to do_package's task hash, that
> >>>>>     causes it bumps *all* packages' PR when recipes like pseudo-native
> >>>>>     and rpm-native is changed. It is a very bad user experience when we
> >>>>>     run "smart/opkg upgrade" on running target, for example, when we apply
> >>>>>     a CVE patch to pseudo-native or rpm-native, or do some slight changes
> >>>>>     in their do_compile, "smart/opkg upgrade" will download/install *all*
> >>>>>     the packages since all of the packages' PR are bumped.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     Here are some rough suggestions to fix this problem, and please feel
> >>>>>     free to give your suggestions.
> >>>>>     1) Do not use do_package's task for bumping PR, the easiest way
> >>>>>         is simulate manually bump PR -- only bump PR when the recipe
> >>>>>         itself's checksum is changed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     2) Add a new task for PRServer, redefine its task hash for bumping
> >>>>>         PR, for example, this task hash only considers RDEPENDS (no
> >>>>>         DEPENDS), and drop any native dependencies.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     I prefer the first way, and an alternative way maybe add a var so that
> >>>>>     the user can configure it:
> >>>>>     PR_CHECKSUM = "${BB_TASKHASH}" (current way)
> >>>>>     Or
> >>>>>     PR_CHECKSUM = "<recipe checksum>"
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     --
> >>>>>     Thanks
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     Robert
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