On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 12:45 AM Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Jul 2022 at 07:58, Tim Orling <[email protected]> wrote:
> > One remaining question is how do we handle configuration? This seems to
> address manifest?
>
> Configuration will be handled with TEMPLATECONF and a set of templates
> in a product/platform layer. It's already in core, it's simple to
> understand and it works. We used it in a very large project. It also
> requires a certain bit of discipline, which is a good thing: you don't
> get to implement ugly local.conf hacks in a turing complete language,
> and must design your configuration (distro, machines and images)
> carefully in a static manner. Then local.conf must contain only DISTRO
> and MACHINE, and a 'confuguration' is essentially a choice of those
> two plus a set of enabled layers plus site-specific settings for
> sstate, downloads, proxies and parallelism level. Back to
> (maintainable) basics.
>

100% on board then. I will die on this mountain.


>
> And yes, I didn't want to open a discussion about this, I even didn't
> describe upfront how I'm going to do this to a customer who's
> supporting the work (if said customer is reading this, I appreciate
> the trust). I simply sat down and wrote the code. The principle is:
> make a tool that fits in a single commit and that I would want to
> personally use.
>
> Yes. 1000% yes. I need a way to quickly spin up layers and configuration
often in half a dozen ways per day.


> Alex
>
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