[OE-core] [PATCH 0/1] bblayers sanity: bblayers.conf.sample specific update code

[Patrick Ohly]

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On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 16:49 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> In an experimental branch of refkit I bumped LCONF_VERSION from 4 to 5
> and ran into the problem mentioned in the commit message: instead of
> raising an error as before, the code (incorrectly) claimed to have
> updated the bblayers.conf file.
> 
> Perhaps refkit should have started with LCONF_VERSION as in the
> current OE-core bblayers.conf.sample file to avoid being affected by
> this - too late for that now, though.
> 
> As an ugly workaround I'm currently jumping from 4 to 8 directly,
> which produces some extra (and wrong) output about "automatically
> updated" before finally raising the expected error (twice, for some
> reasons).
> 
> I'm not sure how this code was meant to work for different distros
> based on OE-core. Depending on when a distro forked from OE-core and
> how it continued with numbering its bblayers.conf.sample file, there
> must have been such conflicts already before.
> 
> Note that I have only checked that the code gets called when placed in
> the expected location, and the code itself was copied verbatim. As it
> refers to ancient changes, I've not actually tried to set up a build
> dir where that upgrade path is necessary. Perhaps the code could even
> be removed entirely?
> 
> Patrick Ohly (1):
>   bblayers sanity: bblayers.conf.sample specific update code
> 
>  meta/classes/sanity.bbclass               | 121 ++++-------------------
>  meta/conf/lib/bblayers_update/__init__.py | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 meta/conf/lib/bblayers_update/__init__.py
> 
> base-commit: ccf630e78aad488da7b80f2981037d3d0559cfad