Is there anything else that I need to do to help move this forward?

Willy Tu

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 8:42 AM Willy Tu via lists.openembedded.org <wltu=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Friendly ping. Is there any more concern on this?
>
> Willy Tu
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 10:07 AM Willy Tu via lists.openembedded.org
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Testing it out more and it seems like the current change is fine in that
> regard.
> >
> > I was building it against an OpenBMC image which include the change and
> the header and libssh.a files doesn't show up in the image itself
> >
> > ```
> > ./tmp/work/izumi-openbmc-linux-gnueabi/obmc-phosphor-image
> > ```
> > doesn't have those files. I believe that's what we are looking for?
> >
> > Willy Tu
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 9:05 AM Willy Tu via lists.openembedded.org
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I am testing it out again and it seems like it does install to the
> target .
> >>
> >> ```
> >> $ find -name libssh.a
> >> ./tmp/sysroots-components/armv7a/openssh/usr/lib/libssh.a
> >>
> ./tmp/work/armv7a-openbmc-linux-gnueabi/openssh/9.0p1-r0/image/usr/lib/libssh.a
> >>
> ./tmp/work/armv7a-openbmc-linux-gnueabi/openssh/9.0p1-r0/sysroot-destdir/usr/lib/libssh.a
> >>
> ./tmp/work/armv7a-openbmc-linux-gnueabi/openssh/9.0p1-r0/packages-split/openssh-staticdev/usr/lib/libssh.a
> >>
> ./tmp/work/armv7a-openbmc-linux-gnueabi/openssh/9.0p1-r0/openssh-9.0p1/libssh.a
> >>
> ./tmp/work/armv7a-openbmc-linux-gnueabi/openssh/9.0p1-r0/package/usr/lib/libssh.a
> >>
> ./tmp/work/armv7a-openbmc-linux-gnueabi/hiba/1.0+gitAUTOINC+3199239c6a-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/libssh.a
> >> ```
> >> We don't want this, right?
> >>
> >> I'll have to try to figure it out and fix it.
> >>
> >> Willy Tu
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 7:57 AM Tristan Lelong <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 6:22 PM Willy Tu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Ross,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for the feedback.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you point to the right repo to update? Just to make sure that I
> understand the concern, you are not referring to
> https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/pull/597, right? I am
> making changes to
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.0p1.bb
> which I thought is part of oe-core.
> >>>>
> >>>> @Tristan Lelong is the maintainer for hiba and is okay with the
> change. Do you have any suggestions on installing it to just the sysroot in
> openssh while using it from the hiba recipe? I was not able to do that when
> I tried it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This was indeed discussed previously in another version of the patch,
> it seemed the best way to expose OpenSSH's internal files was via the devel
> package (not installed on the target), rather than hook into another
> package's syroot.
> >>>
> >>> The OpenSSH static libraries and header files are currently not made
> officially available because the API is not considered stable enough, but
> exporting them in OE for HIBA (gated by a PACKAGECONFIG) in order to
> support HIBA is fine.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> Willy Tu
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 7:59 AM Ross Burton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> oe-core doesn’t accept merge requests on the github mirrors, and you
> pushed to meta-oe, which is a different repository.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> >> + if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'opensshinternals',
> 'true', 'false', d)}; then
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This should be a PACKAGECONFIG, as it’s not a distro-wide setting.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> >> + install -d ${D}${includedir}/ssh
> >>>>> >> + install -d ${D}${includedir}/ssh/openbsd-compat
> >>>>> >> + install -m0644 ${S}/*.h ${D}${includedir}/ssh
> >>>>> >> + install -m0644 ${S}/openbsd-compat/*.h
> ${D}${includedir}/ssh/openbsd-compat
> >>>>> >> +
> >>>>> >> + install -d ${D}${libdir}
> >>>>> >> + install -m0644 ${S}/libssh.a ${D}${libdir}
> >>>>> >> + install -m0644 ${S}/openbsd-compat/libopenbsd-compat.a
> ${D}${libdir}
> >>>>> >> + fi
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So you’re installing bits of the SSH source into the *target*
> packages because one piece of software needs the build tree. This is
> clearly an unsupported use of openssh, as the hiba build instructions
> literally say “build openssh, then point hiba’s configure at that build
> tree”.  If
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I suggest a better approach would be to have a bbappend in your
> layer which adds the files you need to *just the sysroot*, so the target
> packages are unaltered.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ross
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Tristan Lelong | SRE | [email protected] |
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
> 
>
>
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