[yocto] [yocto-autobuilder][PATCH v1 0/4] fixes for use with Angstrom

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

Hey Stefan,

Sorry, this got caught somewhere in my email

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch> wrote:
> Am 2014-05-08 18:44, schrieb stefan at agner.ch:
>> From: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> We plan to make use of the Yocto Autobuilder at Toradex. I successfully
>> deployed an installation, however since we distribute an Anstrom based
>> BSP I had to adjust some files. With those patches and a custom layer
>> configuration (not included since quite ugly) I'm able to build our BSP.
>>

if you want, we could include it in buildset-config.examples.

>> Would be good to have those changes upstream. Especially the new way to
>> preserve the order of builders is more generic, however maybe not yet
>> perfect. I needed this especially since I build some other stuff using
>> POBBC (plain old build bot configuration :-)).
>>
>> Just as a general question: What is planned with the autobuilder in
>> general? Is there an integration planned with Toaster?

At the time, no.

>> As far as I can
>> see, since the build directory is recreated each time, this is not
>> really possible right now. It would need adjustment to the autobuilder
>> to start the toaster web interface for each builder, and clean/restart
>> builds in a way that doesn't interfere with Toaster. Any thoughts on
>> this?

I've honestly not looked into it too much. What would be interesting
is utilizing buildbot slaves and the toaster front end.

>
> Any thoughts on this Patchset?
>
> Today I had troubles with our builder. After removing the whole source
> directory and restart the build, the autobuilder somehow checked out and
> resetted the autobuilder git! (the dora branch was checked out, which I
> tried to checkout from a source branch). So far I could not reconstruct
> what exactly happend, but the builder must have been in the wrong
> directory when issuing some commands... Ugly. Calls for sandboxes :-)
>

Ah. Please switch to master. There was a VERY VERY nasty bug that is
probably still in dora caused by the yoctogit fetcher. I'll look at
dora today and backport the patch.

> Anyway, I lost my custom master.cfg since git restored the version from
> the dora branch (always remember to backup!)...

Yeah, when I was debugging it, I ended up scripting my setup just to
figure out what was wrong.

-- 
Elizabeth Flanagan
Yocto Project
Build and Release