[linux-yocto] KMETA branch/directory redux (yocto #5090)

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Peter A. Bigot <pab at pabigot.com> wrote:
> First, some yak shaving:
>
> If something goes wrong with linux-yocto's do_patch, it prints:
>
> | ERROR. Could not apply patches for beaglebone.
> |        Patch failures can be resolved in the devshell (bitbake -c devshell
> linux-yocto)
>
> In fact, you can't, because meta/classes/devshell.bbclass has:
>
> addtask devshell after do_patch
>
> so there's a chicken/egg thing here because bitbake never gets to devshell.
> No idea how to fix that.
>
> Now: What goes wrong with do_patch for me ultimately turns out to be
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5090 biting me again a
> year after I filed and forgot it, because I set KMETA=yocto-3.14/meta
> because that's the branch name in my local kernel directory.  Various kgit-*
> tools still want to use KMETA to name the directory as well as the branch,
> and they are not happy when KMETA isn't meta.
>
> I'm going to try to do a patch for that, if it's agreed that KMETA really
> does only name the branch and something else needs to propagate the
> directory name among all the scripts.

I have an entire series that addresses issues like this. The work with 3.16
delayed sending anything out. When I'm back from holidays, I'll be sending
out those changes. So by about the M3 milestone of 1.7, most everything
should be sorted.

It definitely isn't trivial to break the branch == directory rule that has been
around for 7 years, but I think I've sorted through most of the wreckage
now.

>
> Before I do that, is that the intended behavior?  I was going to add
> KMETA_DIR as the companion variable, and probably have all the meta_dir()
> shell functions in the *me scripts export that.

It is the intended behaviour. Adding another variable isn't the right
fix either,
I'm deleting linux-yocto specific variables, not adding more. Logic to determine
the right directory name has been added to the scripts, when the directory and
branch don't match.

>
> Are patches to yocto-kernel-tools to be sent to this list?
>

To the linux-yocto mailing list.

> Also, is there a reason all the support scripts are present in the
> meta/scripts directory of the KMETA branches, even though when you run
> bitbake the versions that come from kern-tools are the ones that are
> actually used?  Their presence tricked me into thinking that the ones in the
> meta branch were what I should be patching....

They are there as a snapshot / reference. They can be used in a pinch
to regenerate tree, based only on a clone of the tree. But the default is
to use the ones from the tools .. since that is where changes get pushed first.

Bruce

>
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