Re: [PATCH 00/11] bitbake-diffsigs fixes/improvements

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 12:20 +0000, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bitbake-devel-bounces@lists.openembedded.org [mailto:bitbake-
> > devel-bounces@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton
> > Sent: den 6 april 2017 23:52
> > To: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
> > Subject: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 00/11] bitbake-diffsigs
> > fixes/improvements
> > 
> > As part of an effort to add task signature recording and comparison
> > to
> > buildhistory in OE, I went digging into bitbake-diffsigs and the
> > code
> > that supports it and discovered that unfortunately it had a number
> > of
> > bugs - in particular the -t option despite being around for a while
> > and
> > having numerous band-aids applied in the past still wasn't really
> > working properly. I have to take a big chunk of the responsibility
> > for
> > this as I wrote the thing in the first place. This patchset
> > corrects
> > most of the issues that I found and also makes a number of
> > improvements
> > to the readability of the output.
> > 
> > NOTE: there are a few corresponding changes required in OE-Core
> > that I
> > am about to send out, these should be applied at the same time.
> Will you do the same for bitbake-dumpsig as I believe it has many 
> problems in common with bitbake-diffsigs?

bitbake-dumpsig is near enough a symlink to diffsigs, its all the same
code.

Cheers,

Richard