[Toaster] V2: Commit for recipe detail view ready for review

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 21 January 2014 11:07:18 Reyna, David wrote:
> Hi Belen,
> 
> > Just came across a Homepage: unknown (in the recipe
> > update-rc.d-native). The recipe has no HOMEPAGE variable set
> 
> But, it does have a value (that is returned from the database), and that
> value happens to be the literal string "unknown". The code is only testing
> whether or not the value is defined and is not of length zero - all else is
> up to the database.
> 
>         {% if object.homepage %}
>             <dt>Homepage</dt>
>             <dd><a href="{{object.homepage}}">{{object.homepage}}</a></dd>
>         {% endif %}
> 
> Now, if you want me to add an additional test in the code for the literal
> string "unknown", then I can certainly do that, but that would be a
> hard-coded literal string added to the template code.

The default value from meta/conf/bitbake.conf is "unknown", and it's been that 
way since the early OE-Classic days. I honestly don't know why that is the 
default, I'd personally prefer if it was blank. Assuming OE-Core keeps that 
default though we're going to see a lot of these.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre