[yocto] Last minute changes - Review Request

[Saul G. Wold]

On 10/22/2010 09:32 AM, Stewart, David C wrote:
>> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Richard Purdie
>> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 7:24 AM
>>
>> Coming up to release there are a few things that the extended testing
>> has shown up which we have fixes for and which we should consider
>> including in the release. I also finally got around to doing the final
>> sstate stress testing and found several problematic issues. Given that
>> sstate and checksums are a significant feature of this release, I'd
>> really like them to work as well as we can make them. Prior to this I
>> had stress tested the backend up not the use of the packages. These
>> changes don't change any sstate packages themselves, just the use of
>> them.
>>
>> Since we already have the release images prepared and tested and these
>> are not going to change, the criteria for potential changes:
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>> a) We can unit test the changes and be confident they don't
>>    break/regress things.

For the Future: Besides doing a basic build, we need to have some real 
unit tests for bitbake and the poky infrastructure, I guess I need to 
turn this into a Testing feature request for 1.0 (look for it soon).

>> b) They fix important bugs that the user can easily run into
>>    or that make the project look bad.
After reviewing the changes I agree, don't get me wrong, I am still very 
nervous about these changes.

>> c) The changes are small, well documented and are obviously correct
>>    looking at the code/patch.
Some times we over look the obvious changes, been caught by that myself 
too many time.

>> d) The don't change the generated images.

<SNIP>

>> I'm not happy about being in this position and I know Dave will be very
>> nervous about these late changes. To mitigate this I'd like to propose
>> that a selection of people (Josh, Mark, Saul?) review these changes and
>> report back on whether they feel these are appropriate and also give the
>> build some testing with these applied.
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> I'm so predictable... :-) Yes, I'm nervous. I looked at all of the patches and with the exception of one or two, they mostly seem like good ones. I will accept these if Josh/Mark/Saul give us a +1 on their review&  testing.
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If there was 1 or 2 changes, I would be much happier, but there are 
almost a dozen changes, yes mostly individually they are OK, I am still 
reviewing them all, and have not started any testing with them yet.

I agree with Dave that there are a couple that I am more nervous about 
the pseudo/fakeroot as we have had so much trouble in the past, yes I 
know this will make things better, but what else will crop up?


>> Cheers,
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>> Richard
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