[yocto] [PATCH 0/1] Autobuilder fixes and added functionality

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

Paul,

> 1) If you git clone poky-autobuilder into your home directory the install script falls over because it tries to create that same named directory by default. 
> Of course you can override this path or clone it somewhere else but it would be nice if it could work out of the box.

Yes, that's an issue I know about. Not sure how to handle it other than renaming either the git directory or the default autobuilder scripts home. 

> 2) The install script doesn't handle Python 2.7, but only due to paths. I have a patch for this which I'll post when your latest patches are merged.

Excellent. Ty.

>3) BuildBot 0.8.2 unfortunately suffers from buildbot bug #1697 on my system, making it not very useful (as you can't view any of the build logs through the web interface). It's fixed in 0.8.3. More details:
>
>   http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/1697

I hadn't run into this, so thanks for pointing it out. I'm tempted to wait for 0.8.3p1 which should have the fix for this, rather than trying to pull the fix out to patch 0.8.2

> 4) Looking through the logs locally I found some disturbing output from poky, I guess I may have missed some configuration option, or otherwise something else is going badly wrong:

I found that error yesterday and will have a fix for it today. 

>5) I did try with 0.8.3 earlier (i.e. without your patch), but I suspect I was hit by the git poller problem that 0.8.3p1 is supposed to fix as there were a lot of strange bitbake parsing errors. I also found that I needed to have python-jinja2 and 
> python-setuptools installed, whereas with your latest patch using 0.8.2 it seemed to be installing local copies of these (along with twisted).

I don't recall needed setuptools, but that may be just because I tested on my desktop. I'll look into this when I push it to 0.8.3p1

-b