Re: [yocto-patches] [PATCH yocto-autobuilder2 0/3] runconfig: Add build configuration as properties

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

On Thu, 2025-09-04 at 17:48 +0200, Mathieu Dubois-Briand via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> It was recently brought to my attention that the "Build properties" tab
> on buildbot could contain more data. One is the build configuration,
> such as MACHINE or DISTRO, the other is about the poky-ci-archive tag
> that is automatically created on a-full and a-quick builds.
> 
> This series aims to improve a bit the situation, by extracting DISTRO,
> MACHINE, SDKMACHINE and PACKAGE_CLASSES from the config.json file
> describing builds configuration, and adding them as build properties.
> More properties can be added if any appears to be useful.
> 
> It also stores poky-ci-archive tag as well as a web git URL in
> "poky-ci-archive_tag" and "poky-ci-archive_url" properties, on a-full
> and a-quick builds, copied to all sub-builds. I'm not convinced by the
> need to have both properties, so I'm open for any feedback.
> 
> This series has a dependency on run-config modifications, in
> yocto-autobuilder-helper git [1].

The challenge is we have to patch all helper branches we're still using
when we make a change like that, which makes this kind of change a lot
harder to merge.

Cheers,

Richard