On Wed, 2023-11-22 at 13:53 +0100, Julien Stephan wrote: > Le mar. 14 nov. 2023 à 12:21, Alexander Kanavin > <alex.kana...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > I think no one actually anticipated all these corner cases when > > devtool was written. In general it's simply not designed to handle > > multiple sources in SRC_URI, it can do (tarball or git)+patches, and > > not any of the other options. No one is expecting a fix for all of > > them, perhaps it's best to keep the scope to plain gitsm://. > > > > Hi Alex, > > I sent a series to add submodule support. As you suggested I focused > myself on gitsm recipes, but I had to handle the situation of a git > tree extracted into S because it was throwing an error now with my > submodule implementation (while it was not working but not throwing > any error on master). > > > I don't have specific advice for the broader issue; if you have ideas, > > it would be good to at least document them. > > > > Alex > > > For the other cases, I was thinking of using the newly merged API > "unpack tracer" > (https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?id=ef3e46afd910d4b7727d42c4c18b501525c65695) > (suggested by RP in this thread > https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?id=ef3e46afd910d4b7727d42c4c18b501525c65695). > I really think that we could leverage this new api to create a devtool > unpack tracer, so we can have a better idea of what is unpacked and > where. This could help to solve the corner cases I described > previously but also the bug 15162 > (https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15162). I think it > may also help to simplify devtool code in various places. > Where should I document this? > Should I open a new ticket?
Yes please, it would be good to at least document the idea as I do think it could help devtool with a number of the corner cases. A bugzilla bug for it is the place to do it. Cheers, Richard
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