[OE-core] [PATCH] utility-task: Add do_patchall task

[Matthew McClintock]

Posted an alternate patch to bitbake mailing list.

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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 March 2017 9:47:23 AM NZDT Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 13:48 -0600, Matthew McClintock wrote:
>> > This is useful in a few scenarios:
>> >
>> > 1) A developer wants to be able to grep all the code in a particular
>> > without having to run patch on various components until they guess
>> > the
>> > right one (e.g. which component is generating an error/warning?)
>> >
>> > 2) Other code scanning tools that can be run without requiring a full
>> > image to be built (legal, static code analysis, etc)
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Matthew McClintock <msm-oss at mcclintock.net>
>> > ---
>> >  meta/classes/utility-tasks.bbclass | 7 +++++++
>> >  meta/conf/documentation.conf       | 1 +
>> >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>
>> I have mixed feelings on this. Whilst I can see the attraction, extra
>> tasks like this do actually have a parsing overhead. We already have a
>> lot of them and its only a question of time before someone wants
>> another XXXall task adding.
>>
>> I'm wondering if we can solve this at the bitbake level instead with a
>> new parameter instead? That would allow us to delete tasks and speed up
>> parsing rather than slow things down.
>
> FYI there is a bug open for this (currently assigned to me, but it's in the
> "new" state so anyone's welcome to take it):
>
>   https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7733
>
> I suspect most of this would need to be handled in lib/bb/runqueue.py;
> actually adding the option would be in main.py.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre