On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 5:42 AM Paul Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 14:51, Steve Sakoman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Issues with undetected file mode corruption in pseudo have been identified.
> >
> > Fixes have been merged into master and gatesgarth over the past several 
> > months and
> > things seem to have stabilized enough that we can consider backporting 
> > these fixes
> > to dunfell.
> >
> > This is a somewhat more invasive change than normal. Specifically the user 
> > will
> > be required to clean TMPDIR after this merge. It may also expose issues with
> > other layers, though master and gategarth have probably helped to pave the 
> > way for
> > this change.
> >
> > Personally I think that this fixes a serious enough issue that we should 
> > consider
> > this series for dunfell.
> >
> > This second version includes the wic patches which have been the gating 
> > item for
> > merging this series.
> >
> > Note also that there is an associated bitbake patch for stable/1.46:
> >
> > lib/bb/utils.py: Do not preserve TERM in the environment
> >
> > This is due to taking:
> >
> > bitbake.conf: Remove TERM from default BB_HASHBASE_WHITELIST
> >
> > which was needed to do clean cherry-picks of the pseudo changes.
>
> If this is just brought in to allow clean cherry-picks I think it
> would be better left out and instead do the small bit of rebasing
> required in the patches. We don't know what downstream users are doing
> with TERM so minimising unnecessary changes in the stable branch is
> preferable.

OK, will do.

> Everything else looks good to me at a glance.

Thanks for reviewing.  I'll wait for more feedback and send a v3.
This is one series we really want to get right!

Steve
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