[OE-core] [PATCH 00/15] devtool and externalsrc improvements

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2015 11:47:01 Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Paul Eggleton
>> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > I've been attempting to enable usage of devtool with the kernel (which
>> > effectively means using the externalsrc class with the kernel). This
>> > doesn't really work yet due to lack of handling the kernel configuration,
>>
>> I've always insisted/argued and designed in that externalsrc shouldn't touch
>> the kernel configuration at all.
>>
>> You are building a tree that is completely managed outside of the build
>> system, and getting the kernel configuration in place is part of that
>> management.
>>
>> So I'm not convinced it is a problem that needs to be solved.
>
> So, externalsrc still doesn't touch the configuration, and it is not my plan to
> make it do so. However, users do need some way of setting up that configuration
> when checking out those sources for the first time, and if that's to be of any

Right. Something to think on.

> use to someone who just wants to make some minor changes, it should be the
> exact same configuration you get when you build the recipe as normal. That is
> what I believe "devtool modify" (at least with -x) should be doing, given that
> it is one means you can use to set up a development environment if you do not
> have one already.
>
> We can certainly talk about the mechanism and work out the best way to do it,
> such that it fits in with how linux-yocto works and meets user expectations. My
> intent with this series was to get us to the point where we can at least
> experiment and have that discussion.

Agreed.

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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