[Toaster] Toaster to work with non-git layers

[Michael Wood]

Hi Sujith,

Thanks for the ping. My thoughts on this...

I had a look at those patches and unfortunately I think it's just too 
much of a work-around to push this into the toaster at the moment. 
That's not to say that this isn't something that we want to fix. There 
are at least two larger problems that need to be solved for this:

1)  i) Allow non-git layers in the project configuration
      ii) Change the UI assumptions that layers are in GIT
      iii) Fixing up the localhostbecontroller

2) Fix the setting up of Toaster to allow pre-defined configurations

Currently we scan a slightly unwieldy toasterconf.json to load in a lot 
of the initial data. The more standard way of doing this is to use the 
fixtures feature of Django 
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/initial-data/
Having used the fixtures for unittests I'm wondering if in our toaster 
setup routine we load some fixtures and provide a directory which is 
scanned like lib/toaster/fixtures.d/ where people can remove or add to 
with their own fixtures whether that combined with (1) might meet your 
needs.

Thanks,

Michael


On 27/04/16 17:06, sujith h wrote:
> A gentle ping. There is a request from Mentor to review this patch. 
> The release would be pre 2.2 release ( around august 2016) for us at 
> Mentor. And hence if we can get through this change, that would be 
> helpful. Or if we can get 
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8456 before 2.2 that 
> would be helpful too. Because both address same cause.
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:29 PM, sujith h <sujith.h at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sujith.h at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Mentor Graphics is planning for yocto 2.2 release. I believe we
>     have plenty of time. But still organization wants me to get
>     through with these patches to upstream. So I have pushed couple of
>     commits in
>     http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=sujith/toaster-no-git-layers.
>
>     This patch should work as below:
>     1) Except poky all the other layers or dirs should be non-git
>     2) A script is added which will auto generate toasterconf.json
>     file based on the information from the bblayers.conf. So the user
>     should have the required layers already populated in the
>     bblayers.conf. To run the script user will have to provide the
>     conf directory path as option. ( like
>     --confdir=/home/sujith/gitroot/poky/build/conf ). This conf
>     directory will be the location where local.conf and bblayers.conf
>     will be residing.
>     3) Export toasterconf.json file which will be created in the build
>     directory. For example:
>         export
>     TOASTER_CONF=/home/sujith/gitroot/poky/build/toasterconf.json
>     4) Run toaster.
>     5) User should be able to see the layers in the UI. Which should
>     be ready for the build.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Sujith H
>
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