[OE-core] [OE-Core][master][PATCH v4 0/3] Devtool: provide easy means of

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Chandana

Having added quite a bit to devtool relating to the kernel, we really ought to extend our oe-selftest tests to cover the new functionality. Would you be able to take care of that?

Thanks
Paul

On Wednesday, 5 June 2019 5:07:55 PM NZDT Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Chandana
> 
> My apologies for the delay in reviewing this - other work got in the way of OE-Core contributions but that should be dealt with now.
> 
> On Thursday, 18 April 2019 10:42:56 AM NZST Sai Hari Chandana Kalluri wrote:
> > This patch series provides support for the user to run menuconfig command in the
> > devtool flow. This would allow the user to modify the current configurations and
> > generate a config fragment to update the recipe using devtool finish. Devtool
> > menuconfig command will work on all packages that contain menuconfig as a task.
> > 
> > 1. The implementation checks if devtool menuconfig command is called for a valid
> > package.
> > 2. It checks for oe-local-files dir within source and creates one if
> > needed, this directory is needed to store the final generated config fragment so
> > that devtool finish can update the recipe.
> > 3. Menuconfig command is called for users to make necessary changes. After
> > saving the changes, diffconfig command is run to generate the fragment.
> > 
> > Currently, when the user runs devtool modify command, it checks out the entire
> > source tree which is a bit of an over head in time and space. This patch series
> > also provides a way to create a copy(hard links) of the kernel source, if
> > present, from work-shared to workspace to be more efficient .
> > 
> > Also, if the kernel source is not present in the staging kernel dir and the user
> > fetches the source tree in workspace using devtool modify, then this patch
> > series creates a copy of source from workspace to work-shared. This is
> > necessary for packages that may use the kernel source.
> 
> Looking over the patches again, we're close but the following need to be corrected:
> 
> 1) The devtool.DevtoolUpdateTests.test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files test in oe-selftest fails:
> 
> ---------------- snip ----------------
> INFO: Adding local source files to srctree...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/data/poky/scripts/devtool", line 334, in <module>
>     ret = main()
>   File "/data/poky/scripts/devtool", line 321, in main
>     ret = args.func(args, config, basepath, workspace)
>   File "/data/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py", line 845, in modify
>     initial_rev, _ = _extract_source(srctree, args.keep_temp, args.branch, False, config, basepath, workspace, args.fixed_setup, rd, tinfoil, no_overrides=args.no_overrides)
>   File "/data/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py", line 657, in _extract_source
>     symblink_oelocal_files_srctree(d,srctree)
>   File "/data/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py", line 485, in symblink_oelocal_files_srctree
>     oe.patch.GitApplyTree.gitCommandUserOptions(useroptions, d=d)
> NameError: name 'oe' is not defined
> ---------------- snip ----------------
> 
> Probably just a missing import.
> 
> 2) Please change "symblink" to "symlink"
> 
> 3) Indentation is very inconsistent in the added code. Please use four spaces everywhere.
> 
> I would also like to see oe-selftest tests covering this functionality, but I won't require them to ack these patches (especially given the delays on my part).
> 
> Thanks
> Paul
> 
> 


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Paul Eggleton
Intel System Software Products