[oe] Improving consistency

[Koen Kooi]

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Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
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>> Is it possible to have a 'bitbake sanitize <provider>' command that will output a
>> sanitized .bb? It doesn't have to be perfect, but some aid in this tedious task would be
>> helpfull.
> 
> That depends. I have been thinking about this for quite some time,
> because
> I really would like to have such a thing. We already have a bit of the
> infrastructure
> in place, but the one thing missing is that once the metadata is parsed,
> we lose
> a) order and b) source statements (pointers to a .bb or even better the
> textual entity
> that was the source for a certain statement).

What about a simple script that sorts DESCRIPTION, LICENSE, do_install(), etc? That would
make an excellent addition to the contrib/ dir in the repo.

regards,

Koen
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