Developer Workflow Improvements: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 11:05, 16 February 2015

Developer workflow improvements as documented in the following bugzilla entry:

Properly report failures in bitbake execution during install (output is currently discarded)
Prevent do_rootfs itself from executing on install - we only need the tasks that it depends upon
Write test script for SDK
Randy: getting errors from bitbake about changed signatures - behaviour change after Hongxu's patch?
Update environment setup script to use buildsystem toolchain -- Done but needs testing and function dependent on uninative - Randy
Fix runqemu(and possibly other tools?) since we no longer have the nativesdk sysroot (Add them to buildtools-lite?)
Refactor to move functionality to SDK classes rather than meta-newsdk recipe
nativesdk-qemu-helper_1.0.bb and qemu-helper_1.0.bb don't publish the same set of files. Investigate, since runqemu(and possibly other things) may need to come from the buildsystem's native sysroot.
Installing the sdk to /opt requires root perms, but if you run the installer under sudo/as root then the inner execution of bitbake to prepare the SDK fails at sanity check
uninative-tarball errors when restoring from sstate (should it even try?)
uninative-tarball reports "WARNING: Function doesn't exist" during build
Error when running recipetool from devtool "Error: The OE SDK/ADT was detected as already being present in this shell environment. Please use a clean shell when sourcing this environment script." - probably need to bypass this check via an extra environment variable

Need to run do_populate_sysroot when you run "devtool build" (so that libraries can be added)
Add support for plugins in multiple layers
Support 'devtool modify linux-yocto' - externalsrc doesn't seem to work here at the moment -- Started, paused until Bruce's patchset is ready - Paul
Add an option for modify / add to use the same directory for source and build where that's required
Use git to track changes made by extra task functions?
extract: Try to get author/date info about patches from metadata git history if not able to find it any other way?

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 === devtool ===
-* Need to run do_populate_sysroot when you run "devtool build"
+* Need to run do_populate_sysroot when you run "devtool build" (so that libraries can be added)
 * Add support for plugins in multiple layers
 * Support 'devtool modify linux-yocto' - externalsrc doesn't seem to work here at the moment -- ''Started, paused until Bruce's patchset is ready - Paul''
 * Add an option for modify / add to use the same directory for source and build where that's required
+* Use git to track changes made by extra task functions?
+* extract: Try to get author/date info about patches from metadata git history if not able to find it any other way?
 === recipetool ===
 * Rudimentary spec file conversion?
+* Ability to do interactive adds via a UI
+* Add comments in on do_configure(_append), do_install_(append) etc.
+* Handle USE_* options in Makefiles?