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List:       openembedded-core
Subject:    Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] oe-setup-build: add a tool for discovering config templates and setting up
From:       "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie () linuxfoundation ! org>
Date:       2023-07-31 14:23:57
Message-ID: 00b2ccaee29163f2cbaafacad2ee85f3b88255ed.camel () linuxfoundation ! org
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On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 16:14 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 at 14:42, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > Yes, getting the layer name means parsing but we can likely handle that
> > > > at this point as we're in python.
> > > 
> > > You mean getting BBFILE_COLLECTIONS value out of conf/layer.conf? That
> > > should be fairly easy with standard python, yes.
> > 
> > I think we should be able to use bits of bitbake to help too?
> 
> But how? To use bitbake a build must be set up first. The script sets
> up the build. When the script executes, bitbake won't yet run.

To use bitbake itself, yes. To use tinfoil, or library code from
lib/bb, it doesn't necessarily need that. You don't want bitbake itself
anyway.

> > The conf-notes.txt has a specific purpose and I don't like the idea of
> > trying to make it to two things badly. We therefore need to put this
> > information into which is likely a new location, probably a new conf
> > file within each template directory?
> 
> So perhaps:
> conf-description.txt - a short (one line ideally) description of what
> the configuration is for, shown by oe-setup-build to help the users
> choose one configuration from several.
> conf-notes.txt - a kind of freeform 'readme' for the configuration
> explaining how to use it, and which are the key bitbake targets etc,
> shown after the selection is made, when a build is set up from a
> selected template.

I'm still thinking we should try and get away from these text files...

Cheers,

Richard


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