Re: [oe-commits] Mark Hatle : base.bbclass: Deprecate the PRINC logic

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 5/28/13 9:06 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 15:46 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:28:41PM +0000, git@git.openembedded.org wrote:
>>> Module: openembedded-core.git
>>> Branch: master-next
>>> Commit: e1cf564ebc8e7b4fa626a645356f6a4d7f5ba064
>>> URL:    http://git.openembedded.org/?p=openembedded-core.git&a=commit;h=e1cf564ebc8e7b4fa626a645356f6a4d7f5ba064
>>>
>>> Author: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
>>> Date:   Tue May 21 13:29:03 2013 -0500
>>>
>>> base.bbclass: Deprecate the PRINC logic
>>>
>>> The PRINC logic is now deprecated, the PR server should be used to handle
>>> the automatic incrementing of the PR (package release) field.  The default
>>> setting of '0' has been removed, and a warning message has been added.
>>
>> How are people supposed to remove existing PRINC without causing version
>> going backwards?
>>
>> Do I have to choose between seeing 100 warnings about deprecated PRINC
>> or 100 ERRORs from buildhistory about versions going backwards?
>
> Sorry, this is coming out a bit backwards.
>
> At the TSC meeting, we discussed ways of progressing with removal of
> PRINC as it is causing pain and we shouldn't need it any more. We were
> wondering if we could have the system warn on usage of PRINC, then
> accept PR bumps to the main recipe at the same time that the usage of
> PRINC was removed (taking PR bumps and removing PRINC seems to be the
> only way to proceed). Initially I wondered if we could make it a hard
> error, which would then force the PR bump to be in sync with the
> removal. People are justifiably concerned at the idea of hard errors
> though.
>
> Mark sent me a patch, I thought it was an RFC on the list and applied it
> to master-next to experiment with. It wasn't send to the list, I'm not
> sure what Mark's intention was, its possible I was supposed to raise the
> subject, then post the patch.

Ya, this was a result of the TSC discussion.  I sent it to Richard to get 
feedback on the approach, before it went to the list.

> Anyhow, as you point out, the patch has a couple of issues. We need to
> put back the default value into local.conf for now at the very least so
> this warns, rather than gives an obtuse error. Its not going into master
> until there is more discussion.
>
> So lets reset here, Mark will post the RFC patch and we can discuss
> whether there is a way we can get rid of the PRINC usage without causing
> people too many problems. Sorry for the confusion caused :/.

I'll be happy to do so.

--Mark

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>