Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: pseudo to ignore vim and less config files

[Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 08:10:21AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 09:44 +0300, Mikko Rapeli via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > vim and less always write to these files in users home directory.
> > Using vim and less via pseudo in "bitbake -c devshell recipe" and
> > outside of pseudo triggers pseudo aborts which makes interactive
> > use of devshell difficult. Fixes vim and less crashes and related
> > pseudo log entries:
> > 
> > inode mismatch: '/home/builder/.viminfo' ino 33270730 in db, 33269736 in request.
> > inode mismatch: '/home/builder/.lesshst' ino 33270625 in db, 33270730 in request.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > �meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 1 +
> > �1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > index b1dae17267..9cb70ee999 100644
> > --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > @@ -748,6 +748,7 @@ PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS = "/usr/,/etc/,/lib,/dev/,/run/,${T},${WORKDIR}/recipe-sysro
> > �PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS .= ",${TMPDIR}/sstate-control,${TMPDIR}/buildstats,${TMPDIR}/sysroots-components,${TMPDIR}/pkgdata"
> > �PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS .= ",${WORKDIR}/deploy-,${WORKDIR}/sstate-build-package_,${WORKDIR}/sstate-install-package_,${WORKDIR}/pkgdata-sysroot"
> > �PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS .= ",${DEPLOY_DIR},${BUILDHISTORY_DIR},${TOPDIR}/cache,${COREBASE}/scripts,${CCACHE_DIR},${S},${B}"
> > +PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS .= ",${HOME}/.vim,${HOME}/.less"
> 
> You can probably make this ${HOME}/. which would match all config files
> in $HOME and save us getting a load more of these being requested?
> 
> I'd hope nobody is doing builds in a directory starting with "."!

Ok, I'll do that instead.

Cheers,

-Mikko