Re: [yocto-patches] [yocto-autobuilder-helper] [PATCH 2/2] scripts/run-docs-build: Add support for multiple buildtools and add modified 5.1 option

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

On Thu, 2024-10-31 at 14:15 +0000, Richard Purdie via
lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Add a modified 5.1 buildtools tarball for docs builds which has
> support for svg -> png
> conversion using rsvg-convert.
> 
> Older releases need older docs buildtools. Add support for this in
> the build
> script for docs, installing both and choosing depending on how old
> the main
> release branch is. For now I've put the changeover at scarthgap, it
> may be
> possible to make it older. I know kirkstone fails with the new tools.
> 
> Bitbake doesn't need this since it's docs work fine with both
> versions.
> 
> The actual docs build is done in a subshell so we can choose the
> environment.
> We may need to improve the selection logic in future since some
> branches may
> start to build with the newer tools after backports.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

Just to be clear, the new docs buildtools includes the latest sphinx so
this lets us start moving to new spinx versions while at the same time
being able to build our older docs. We've wanted to do that for a
while.

Cheers,

Richard