[OE-core] [PATCH 0/6] devtool: improve handling of local source files

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Markus,

On Thursday 30 April 2015 12:16:06 Markus Lehtonen wrote:
> This patchset tries to improve handling of local source files (i.e. file://
> in SRC_URI). First, it improves packages for which S=WORKDIR (that possibly
> only have local sources. Second, it makes local sources available in the
> srctree for all packages.
> 
> See yocto bug #7602

I've finally looked at these, apologies for the delay. Some comments:

* I don't think we really want the local files to become part of the git 
repository by default - they shouldn't be committed. Once users have finished 
with devtool, we want them to be able to push the source tree to their own 
repo and point to that within the recipe, whilst keeping the local files next 
to the recipe. 

* This implies that new files added to the local files dir when we do devtool 
update-recipe should not be added as a patch, they should be copied next to 
the recipe and added to SRC_URI. I'm more than happy for us to implement this 
separately as a follow-up (i.e. we could start by not handling adding files to 
the local files directory at all.)

* The local-files directory needs to be named specific to OE - "oe-local-files" 
would be ideal. If we could have one place in the code where this was defined 
that would be ideal as well (maybe at some point we'd allow it to be 
configured).

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre