[yocto] OpenEmbedded Metadata: Recipe update broken

[Andreas Müller]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:05:09 Andreas Müller wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Andreas Müller
>> <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Paul Eggleton
>> > <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:41:42 Andreas Müller wrote:
>> >>> FAQ for layerindex says recipes are updated every 3 hours but I think
>> >>> it does not work. E.g meta-oe geis/grail/frame are not mentioned but
>> >>> were committed few days ago.
>> >>
>> >> I do know there's a problem, but I'm honestly not sure what's causing it.
>> >> Unfortunately I don't have time to dig into it now but let me see if I
>> >> can resync meta-oe at least.
>> >
>> > No need for manual update - it was just a heads up. I was not sure
>> > that it is a known issue.
>>
>> I checked in history:
>>
>> meta-openwrt added 4 weeks ago is the last layer for that was
>> analyzed. meta-cpan and all published after that were not analysed
>> anymore - they are reported having no recipes.
>>
>> As this is a strong tool I have at daily use: Is there something I can
>> do to get this working again?
>
> So, it was a long time coming, but I finally figured out what was going wrong
> at least for some cases - basically, newer versions of GitPython actually
> recognise renamed files instead of treating them as an add and a delete, but
> since I didn't know about this change I didn't fix the layer index code to
> accommodate this. With the recent layer index upgrade to support Python 3 for
> master, the fix for this issue was also applied, and each layer is also now
> parsed in a separate subprocess which should finally take care of memory leaks
> and any other rubbish being left behind affecting parsing of subsequent
> layers. Hopefully we shouldn't see any more of this type of problem again
> (aside from actually broken metadata) but as always please do let me know if
> you see anything strange.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
Hi,

seems layer list update is broken again e.g I am committing on
meta-qt5-extra regularly but last commit reported is one month ago.

Andreas