[Toaster] [PATCH v3 0/7] Make toasterui to work in build mode

[Brian Avery]

upstreamed. nice explanation on how to test the direct version too!!!
ty,
b

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patchset is a preparation for the #7880 fix. As we're going to get rid of
> running bitbake server we need toasterui to work in build mode, i.e. with
> bitbake <target> -u toasterui.
>
> If you want to test this functionality you can do the following:
>  - start Toaster
>  - kill bitbake server and observer processes
>  - unset BBSERVER
>  - add INHERIT+="toaster buildhistory" line to conf/local.conf
>  - run bitbake <target> -u toasterui
>
> Expected outcome: you should see commandline build in UI without bitbake server
>                   and observer running.
>
> I've discovered nasty bug in handling setEventMask by bitbake server while
> working on this. It causes ignoring of the event mask set by toasterui. The result
> of this is that list of events in _ev_list variable is different from the actual
> list of events processed by toasterui. Here is the difference:
> -bb.command.CommandExit
> +bb.event.BuildCompleted
> +bb.event.BuildStarted
> +bb.event.ConfigParsed
> +bb.event.DepTreeGenerated
> -bb.runqueue.runQueueExitWait
> +bb.event.RecipeParsed
> +bb.event.SanityCheck
> +bb.event.SanityCheckPassed
> +bb.event.TreeDataPreparationCompleted
> +bb.event.TreeDataPreparationStarted
> +bb.runqueue.runQueueTaskCompleted
> +bb.runqueue.runQueueTaskSkipped
> +bb.runqueue.sceneQueueTaskCompleted
>
> The fix for this bug is also included in this patchset.
>
> Changes in v2: Added several missing events to the _ev_list.
>                Removed workaround code that ignores unwanted events.
>
> Changes in v3: Fixed WARNING: Unknown event: <bb.event.BuildStarted object at 0x2554150>
>                Mentioned updating config in testing instructions
>
> The following changes since commit f7f35a9d6ff43bd8cb75603557158617a80bb4e5:
>
>   toaster: cleanup of bin/toaster startup code (2016-03-01 12:35:38 +0000)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>   git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib ed/toaster/toasterui-in-build-mode
>   http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ed/toaster/toasterui-in-build-mode
>
> Ed Bartosh (7):
>   toasterui: reformat list of events
>   toasterui: update list of events
>   command: make setEventMask readonly
>   toasterui: check if setEventMask succeeded
>   toasterui: make toasterui to work in build mode
>   toasterui: exit on final events
>   toasterui: fix warning 'Unknown event'
>
>  bitbake/lib/bb/command.py      |  1 +
>  bitbake/lib/bb/ui/toasterui.py | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ed
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