[yocto] OpenEmbedded Metadata: Recipe update broken

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:14:23 Andreas Müller wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Michael, I'm still not receiving any layer index update script emails. Is 
there a way we can fix that so I can see what might be going wrong?

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre