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From: openembedded-architecture@... <openembedded-
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Sent: den 30 juli 2021 15:40
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Subject: Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Overrides conversion plan

On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 16:43 +0100, Richard Purdie via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:

I think the challenge is going to be the flag day issue for master

branches.

For example, there is code in devtool and other places which knows about

the

override character. If we allow mixing the different syntax for master

then

those tools need to complicate things by referencing both characters. To

try

and preserve what is left of my sanity, I'm starting to think we just

require

layers to migrate to the new syntax to continue to work with master. The

good

news is that those converted layers should work with dunfell and older

releases

where the layer already does that with the backported bitbake syntax

update.

If we accept that we need to have a flag day for master use, the

question is

when. We could pick some data well in the future or even post 3.4

however I'm

not sure this buys much and we probably may as well get on and do it.

Given these things, I therefore propose that we should start these

changes

and require it for master, probably relatively quickly within a couple

of

weeks?

I have continued to work on this and I now think we're as ready as we'll
ever
be with the core. I have:

* submitted a section for the migration guide documenting the conversion
process
* increased the minimum bitbake version for OE-Core
* bumped the local.conf version to require new versions of the config file
* added an error to bitbake if it sees "_append"|"_prepend"|"_remove" in
variable names which would suggest an unconverted layer. If you use
those
in function names in the datastore that was never a good idea and is no
longer supported.
* merged compatibility changes back to bitbake 1.50, 1.48 and 1.46
* merged the conversion script to OE-Core
* merged submitted tweaks to the conversion script (thanks Martin!)
* made OE-Core honister only, no longer supporting hardknott
* updated converted layers to be honister compatible
* converted autobuilder-helper to use the new syntax
* ensured all of a-quick builds on the autobuilder
* submitted patches for meta-yocto, meta-gplv2, meta-mingw and bitbake

I plan to merge these various things on Monday (2nd August). After that
time, unconverted layers will no longer work with master.

Cheers,

Richard

[ I am on summer vacation so I just happened to see a tweet about this. ]

I am sorry to say, but I think you are going too fast. AFAICT, the support
for using : instead of _ in overrides is not yet in any Dunfell or Hardknott
release, only on the branches. I can't speak for others of course, but at
least we will not pick it up until it is included in an actual release.

//Peter