[OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/2] Make source code browsable locally - devtool srctree

[Andre McCurdy]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Peter Kjellerstedt
<peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just for reference, I think you could achieve something quite similar
>> with:
>>
>>   bitbake <your-image> --runall clean  ( or rm -rf tmp )
>>   bitbake <your-image> --runall patch
>
> Yes, but the drawback with this is that to find the source code for the
> individual packages, you have to dive down into tmp/work/... which can
> be quite discouraging for someone who is not an expert in bitbake. What
> our developers requested was a way to get easy access to all the source
> code being used, typically to be able to search through it all looking
> for some specific feature.

Right. I wasn't trying to suggest that the two approaches were
completely equivalent, just drawing some attention to the bitbake
--runall option, which was added fairly recently (specifically to
solve this problem).

The directory structure split under tmp/work between arch and machine
specific recipes might be a little confusing but obviously serves a
purpose (target and native sources may need different sets of patches,
etc) so maybe worth the effort to explain to developers. Below that
level I don't think there are many surprises in the paths to the
sources directories?