[Toaster] [PATCH 00/15] Build cancellation

[Ed Bartosh]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:13:27PM -0700, Brian Avery wrote:
> 2) we cannot assume I am building in ~/poky/build. There are env
> variables to let us find where poky is $OEROOT for instance. My bin/sh
> is bash but I still got the following when building from
> $HOME/cow/test/ when poky was in $HOME/src/poky :
> 
> : less toaster_ui.log
> 
> bash: ../bitbake/bin/bitbake: No such file or directory
Should be fixed by this commit:
https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=ed/toaster/project-build-dir-7880-cancel-dldir_sstatedir&id=a3566432d7d42939a482322abb7ead6026008d49

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> 11) I’m not personally fond of having the sstate and dl_dir being set
> on the project creation page. they are available in the bitbake var
> page for each project which is nice. This is more a Belén thing. just
> putting my opinion down.

This should be alread fixed by Sujith. The fix is also in
ed/toaster/project-build-dir-7880-cancel-dldir_sstatedir

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> So as far as upstreaming, I think we need to have the following 2
> things fixed first:
>
> 1) being able to run/build from an arbitrary dir and not assuming we
> are in the poky tree. (should be ez)
yes, it should be fixed already. see my comment above.

> 2) fixing the custom image stuff. Since the CI is the main selling
> point of the 2.1 release we need to make sure we don’t break it.
> (hopefully not too hard?)
OK, I'll try to look at it.

BTW, the full patchset has 42 patches and becomes hard to maintain.
We may need to consider upstreaming it in 2 or 3 steps if the above
fixes are hard to do.

Regards,
Ed