Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/4] lib/recipeutils: add a function to determine recipes with shared include files

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

On Tue, 2024-07-23 at 09:15 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 16:44, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Your patch is good and I'm happy to merge as is, I just wanted to
> > mention that it might be possible to catch the mesa issue.
> 
> Thanks, I just pushed the corresponding changes to AUH. It's possible
> next AUH run won't be perfect, we have to wait and see (I did test
> passing/failing lockstep upggrades with glib, but AUH is notorious
> for
> running into corner cases over the complete recipe set). But you
> should be getting perfect qemu upgrade patches from now on ;)
> 
> > The challenge is that even if it were identifiable, the code still
> > probably can't know how to actually enable it for the
> > upgrade/testing
> > :(.
> 
> Yes. We could insert that data into the recipe to be used by
> AUH/devtool, but that's even more work, and all for a single known
> recipe in core (mesa). For mesa I'm tempted to go back to the 'simple
> file rename' proposal that's already implemented; in reality no one
> tests mesa-gl either when they submit mesa version updates. And we
> have to keep telling people to include mesa-gl, because it's only
> natural to overlook that.

FWIW, PV doesn't have to come from the filename. We could set PV from
the inc file and rename the files so PV isn't there...

Cheers,

Richard