[OE-core] [PATCH V5 0/2] bitbake-layers: add a ability to query layer dependencies from layer index

[Robert Yang]

On 02/13/2015 06:10 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Thursday 12 February 2015 09:50:21 Chong Lu wrote:
>> Change since V4:
>> Change commit log for two variables.
>>
>> The following changes since commit 35c9fa0588ed8e88b541a6c80cc1517324616cea:
>>
>>    maintainers: Update for non-maintained recipes (2015-01-20 21:39:41 +0000)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib chonglu/layerindex
>>    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=chonglu/layerindex
>>
>> Chong Lu (2):
>>    bitbake.conf: Add two variables for layer index
>>    bitbake-layers: add a ability to query layer dependencies from layer index
>
> Thanks for fixing nearly all of the issues from v3 - I've tested it and it
> works pretty well. However, there is one that is still not addressed:
>
>>> * I think the new subcommand would make more sense if it were switched
>>> around so that it was fetching by default (and renamed as appropriate).
>>> Perhaps "layerindex-fetch" (with -n to avoid fetching and just report what
>>> it would fetch).
>
> FWIW I'm happy if we still have a "layerindex-show-deps" that is just an alias
> for "layerindex-fetch -n", so it's really about the naming.
>
> Additionally I'd really rather we did not hardcode the branch names - there's
> an API call available to get these in the layer index and we should use it. I
> also think we could improve the formatting of the output to make it a bit
> easier for the user to understand.
>
> I know you'll be out of office for the next few weeks - perhaps I could address
> these issues while you're out and send a new series if you have no objections.

Thank you very much, I had talked with Chong today, he would be very happy
if you can send the new series:-)

// Robert

>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>