[OE-core] [PATCH 01/20] oe-selftest: add a test for recipes without maintainers

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 02/01/2018 10:41 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> I understand the intention, but I don't think oe-selftest is the right place to be
> doing this. It's going to fail for sure if you have any non-OE-Core layers in
> your configuration.
> 
> One thing I have continued to campaign for (and I'm aware that not everyone
> completely agrees) is that oe-selftest should be able to be run with people's
> own configurations, we shouldn't necessarily assume that it's only our default
> being tested - that way we maximise oe-selftest's utility and audience. Of
> course there's a limit to that, if someone's esoteric configuration breaks it
> they get to keep the pieces - but this will definitely break with anyone's
> custom configuration, esoteric or otherwise.

I do agree with this. We've had this exact conversation with Ross a few 
weeks back, and he promised to fix the test so that it's limited to 
recipes in oe-core. Take me re-sending the patch as a gentle reminder 
for that. :)

> By all means let's have a script that does this - it's even trivial to write one
> with tinfoil.

No manual scripts (that no one except me even knows about) please. I 
really do want to automate this, and have it run regularly on the 
autobuilder. Otherwise, one can just issue:

bitbake -c checkpkg world && grep -v @ tmp/log/checkpkg.csv


Alex