[oe] oestats as automated testing reporting tool (Was: testing branch 2011-01-20)

[Tom Rini]

On 01/26/2011 03:04 PM, Yury Bushmelev wrote:
> I have spent some time to looking over oestats client and server code.
> Below are some ideas.
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>> - workstation (distro + arch)*
> We have build arch in oestats already (BUILD_ARCH). I'll prefer
> replace it with BUILD_SYS because we can use e.g.
> darwin/freebsd/cygwin as build host later.
> As there is no reliable way to get user's build host distro I'll ask
> to introduce new bitbake variable (OESTATS_HOST_DISTRO?).

We can code some things up.  For example, if uname -o has Linux in the 
name, we can see if lsb_release exists (more often than not, it 
will/should) and then bam, we've got it.  Otherwise we can do some 
poking around before just giving up.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation