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From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] lib/oe/patch: handle non-UTF8 encoding when reading patches
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:16:12 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1844223.HiLeg694VU@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lywpipvxhx.fsf@ensc-virt.intern.sigma-chemnitz.de>

Hi Enrico,

On Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:50:02 Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
> writes:
> > When extracting patches from a git repository with PATCHTOOL = "git" we
> > cannot assume that all patches will be UTF-8 formatted, so as with other
> > places in this module, try latin-1 if utf-8 fails.
> 
> This will probably not work when patch contains a character between 128
> and 159 (which is a blackhole in all locales afaik).

I realise it's by no means perfect - you may even fairly label it a hack, 
since it's only handling two encodings out of many. However I was keen to at 
least restore the ability to handle the majority of patches we have in the 
core, we can always improve it subsequently (even before the release).
 
> I would read the file as a binary ('rb' instead of 'r') and make the
> GitApplyTree.* strings a 'bytes' type.

The code is not just passing the data through, it is actually processing it. 
If we did what you propose wouldn't it make that processing more difficult? 

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-06 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-06 10:03 [PATCH 0/9] devtool / recipetool fixes Paul Eggleton
2016-09-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 1/9] lib/oe/patch: handle non-UTF8 encoding when reading patches Paul Eggleton
2016-09-06 15:50   ` Enrico Scholz
2016-09-06 20:16     ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2016-09-07 10:07       ` Enrico Scholz
2016-09-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 2/9] devtool: update-recipe: support files with subdir= Paul Eggleton
2016-09-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 3/9] recipetool: create: AX_PKG_SWIG should add dependency on swig-native Paul Eggleton
2016-09-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 4/9] recipetool: create: fix mapping python dependencies to python-dbg package Paul Eggleton
2016-09-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 5/9] recipetool: create: support git submodules Paul Eggleton
2016-09-07  6:23   ` Ola x Nilsson
2016-09-07 21:07     ` Paul Eggleton
2016-09-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 6/9] recipetool: create: add --keep-temp command line option Paul Eggleton
2016-09-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 7/9] recipetool: create: allow license variable handling to be rerun Paul Eggleton
2016-09-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 8/9] recipetool: create: support node.js code outside of npm Paul Eggleton
2016-09-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 9/9] recipetool: create: avoid extra blank lines in output recipe Paul Eggleton

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