[OE-core] RFC: exposing information about the SRC_URI(s)/branch via buildhistory (or similar mechanism)

[William Bourque]

I'd be curious to see the patches.
It's definitely something we could use here; we used to have nightly
build checking the build using AUTOREV as well.

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 3:43 AM <Mikko.Rapeli at bmw.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 04:51:38PM +0000, chris.laplante--- via Openembedded-core wrote:
> <snip>
> > I'm interesting in adding SRC_URI support to buildhistory (or a similar mechanism), and would like to get some input.
>
> Yes to this.
>
> Also would be nice if there was an easy way to add bitbake variables to
> buildhistory.
>
> I've patched our tree so that SRC_URI, LICENSE and CVE_PRODUCT are archived
> in buildhistory. SRC_URI has many uses and changes and patches can
> be easily identified. Same with LICENSE, any changes trigger a review.
> CVE_PRODUCT is exported so that we can do QA check to make sure mapping
> from CVE_PRODUCT for non CLOSED licenses exists to NVD database product
> names (maintaining a white list of recipes which don't have any CVEs yet).
>
> We've also changed the SDK name to be stable across builds and added
> DISTRO to the path. In our case IMAGE_NAME and SDK_NAME will include
> git tree tag and hash if tree is dirty, which changes buildhistory SDK paths
> for every build with different input.
>
> I could submit the patches if there is interest in them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Mikko
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