[poky] bitbake listtasks broken

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 10:29 +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >From: Gary Thomas
> >Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 7:38 PM
> >
> >On 11/25/2010 04:06 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> Filed as bug #548
> >>
> >> This command [no longer?] produces any output:
> >> bitbake recipe -c listtasks
> >>
> >> $ bitbake qemu -c listtasks
> >> NOTE: Handling BitBake files: | (0756/0756) [100 %]
> >> Parsing of 756 .bb files complete (0 cached, 756 parsed). 913 targets, 34 skipped, 0
> >masked, 0 errors.
> >>
> >> OE Build Configuration:
> >> BB_VERSION = "1.11.0"
> >> METADATA_BRANCH = "local_master"
> >> METADATA_REVISION = "94b1fda09671b58aafb54983e4a6e499f6ffc369"
> >> TARGET_ARCH = "i586"
> >> TARGET_OS = "linux"
> >> MACHINE = "qemux86"
> >> DISTRO = "poky"
> >> DISTRO_VERSION = "0.9+snapshot-20101125"
> >> TARGET_FPU = ""
> >>
> >> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
> >> NOTE: Preparing runqueue
> >> NOTE: Executing runqueue
> >> NOTE: Full skip list set([])
> >> NOTE: Running task 1 of 1 (ID: 0,
> >/tmp/poky-amltd/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_0.12.4.bb, do_listtasks)
> >> NOTE: package qemu-0.12.4-r22: task do_listtasks: Started
> >> NOTE: package qemu-0.12.4-r22: task do_listtasks: Succeeded
> >> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and 0 failed.
> >
> >To be fair, it does do something, but the results are hidden in
> >the temp/log.do_listtasks file.  Certainly not what the documentation
> >implies...
> >
> 
> Previously python tasks were not logged, so do_listtasks get its output to the console.
> 
> Now all python and shell tasks are logged, that's why you see output in a log file now.
> 
> But I agree that it's not convenient to search WORKDIR for such information. I'm working
> a fix by use bb.msg.note instead.

Good thinking, I didn't realise it was poking sysout directly. I've a
local patch switching this to use bb.plain() which is the most
appropriate formatting in this case.

Cheers,

Richard