Re: [bitbake-devel][PATCH] cooker: Handle ImportError for websockets

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

On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 10:11 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 at 17:05, Alexander Kanavin via
> lists.openembedded.org <alex.kanavin=gmail.com@lists.openembedded.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > - we can extend bitbake-setup configurations with 'install-buildtoos:
> > true' parameter, and then use it in all official configurations that
> > need functional websockets to access pre-built sstate to always
> > install buildtools, even on systems where it's not actually necessary.
> > 
> > None of these are great, but I'm leaning towards the last. Looking for
> > better ideas!
> 
> Ok, I've slept on it, and concluded that bitbake-setup should simply
> always install buildtools by default. It's a front line tool for new
> users, and it can't afford to fail in mysterious ways. There will be a
> setting to turn it off, for those who know what they're doing and know
> they don't need buildtools.

I think that should be an option but I'm reluctant to say to use it by
default as we're just not going to find out about host issues until it
is too late. Our sanity tests are supposed to detect and give human
readable errors for the common issues you'd encounter.

Cheers,

Richard