Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v5 1/2] oe-setup-layers: support inline URI

Mathieu Dubois-Briand
2026-01-27T14:00:00Z

On Fri Jan 23, 2026 at 6:26 PM CET, Corentin Guillevic via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Most of the time, when we describe a remote, the layer data (also used by
> the script bitbake-setup) looks like this:
>
> "bitbake": {
> "git-remote": {
> "remotes": {
> "origin": {
> "uri": "https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake"
> }
> },
> ...
> }
> }
>
> i.e. an URI with the common name 'origin'. Alternatively, we could simplify this, by
> using a shorter structure with the property 'uri' only:
>
> "bitbake": {
> "git-remote": {
> "uri": "https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake
>
> ",
> ...
> }
> }
>
> These properties can be used together.
>
> Signed-off-by: Corentin Guillevic <corentin.guillevic@smile.fr>
> ---

Hi Corentin,

Thanks for the new version.

It's been some time, so I have a doubt now: does this path have any
dependency on another series? So far I have this failing selftest:

2026-01-27 09:30:15,277 - oe-selftest - INFO - bblayers.BitbakeLayers.test_validate_examplelayersjson (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-01-27 09:30:15,282 - oe-selftest - INFO - ... FAIL
...
2026-01-27 09:30:15,282 - oe-selftest - INFO - testtools.testresult.real._StringException: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bblayers.py", line 163, in test_validate_examplelayersjson
self.validate_layersjson(json)
File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bblayers.py", line 159, in validate_layersjson
self.validate_json(json, "layers.schema.json")
File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bblayers.py", line 152, in validate_json
result = runCmd(
File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/commands.py", line 214, in runCmd
raise AssertionError("Command '%s' returned non-zero exit status %d:\n%s" % (command, result.status, exc_output))
AssertionError: Command '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-845522/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/python3-jsonschema-native/4.26.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/nativepython3 /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-845522/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/python3-jsonschema-native/4.26.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/jsonschema -i /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/files/layers.example.json --base-uri file:///srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/bitbake/bin/../setup-schema/ /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/bitbake/bin/../setup-schema/layers.schema.json' returned non-zero exit status 1:
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-845522/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/python3-jsonschema-native/4.26.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/jsonschema:5: DeprecationWarning: The jsonschema CLI is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please use check-jsonschema instead, which can be installed from https://pypi.org/project/check-jsonschema/
from jsonschema.cli import main
{'branch': 'master', 'describe': '', 'uri': 'https://github.com/kanavin/meta-alex', 'rev': '05b25605fb8b2399e4706d7323828676bf0da0b5'}: Additional properties are not allowed ('uri' was unexpected)
{'branch': 'master', 'describe': '15.0-hardknott-3.3-310-g0a96edae', 'uri': 'git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-intel', 'rev': '0a96edae609a3f48befac36af82cf1eed6786b4a'}: Additional properties are not allowed ('uri' was unexpected)

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/3102
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/2998

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering