123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158159160161162163164165166167168169170171172173174175176177178179180181182183184185186187188189190191192193194195196197198199200201202203204205206207208209210211212213214215216217218219220221222223224225226227228229230231232233234235236237238239240241242243244245246247248249250251252253254255256257258259260261262263264265266267268269270271272273274275276277278279280281282283284285286287288289290291292293294295296297298299300301302303304305306307308309310311312313314315316317 |
- Changes in Bitbake 1.9.x:
- - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
- - Treat python functions the same as shell functions for logging
- - Use TMPDIR/anonfunc as a __anonfunc temp directory (T)
- - Catch truncated cache file errors
- - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
- - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
- - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
- - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
- - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
- - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
- - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
- - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
- - Update manual
- - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
- - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
- - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
- - svn fetcher: Add _buildsvncommand function
- - Improve certain error messages
- - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
- as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
- (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
- - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
- - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
- - Add SRCREV support for svn fetcher
- - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
- - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
- - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends
- - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION
- - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have
- already run before starting the build rather than during it
- - Add profiling option (-P)
- - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache
- - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support
- - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values
- - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions
- - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions
- - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend
- e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc"
- - Add plain message function to bb.msg
- - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are
- reproducible rather than effectively random
- - Fix/improve bitbake -s output
- - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time
- - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains
- - Expand data in addtasks
- - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...."
- error message.
- - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction)
- - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible
- - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup)
- - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors
- - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user)
- - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again
- - Fix a bug in bb.decodeurl where http://some.where.com/somefile.tgz decoded to host="" (#1530)
- - Warn about malformed PREFERRED_PROVIDERS (#1072)
- - Add support for BB_NICE_LEVEL option (#1627)
- - Psyco is used only on x86 as there is no support for other architectures.
- - Sort initial providers list by default preference (#1145, #2024)
- - Improve provider sorting so prefered versions have preference over latest versions (#768)
- - Detect builds of tasks with overlapping providers and warn (will become a fatal error) (#1359)
- - Add MULTI_PROVIDER_WHITELIST variable to allow known safe multiple providers to be listed
- - Handle paths in svn fetcher module parameter
- - Support the syntax "export VARIABLE"
- - Add bzr fetcher
- - Add support for cleaning directories before a task in the form:
- do_taskname[cleandirs] = "dir"
- - bzr fetcher tweaks from Robert Schuster (#2913)
- - Add mercurial (hg) fetcher from Robert Schuster (#2913)
- - Don't add duplicates to BBPATH
- - Fix preferred_version return values (providers.py)
- - Fix 'depends' flag splitting
- - Fix unexport handling (#3135)
- - Add bb.copyfile function similar to bb.movefile (and improve movefile error reporting)
- - Allow multiple options for deptask flag
- - Use git-fetch instead of git-pull removing any need for merges when
- fetching (we don't care about the index). Fixes fetch errors.
- - Add BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS option, set to 0 to make git fetches
- faster at the expense of not creating mirror tarballs.
- - SRCREV handling updates, improvements and fixes from Poky
- - Add bb.utils.lockfile() and bb.utils.unlockfile() from Poky
- - Add support for task selfstamp and lockfiles flags
- - Disable task number acceleration since it can allow the tasks to run
- out of sequence
- - Improve runqueue code comments
- - Add task scheduler abstraction and some example schedulers
- - Improve circular dependency chain debugging code and user feedback
- - Don't give a stacktrace for invalid tasks, have a user friendly message (#3431)
- - Add support for "-e target" (#3432)
- - Fix shell showdata command (#3259)
- - Fix shell data updating problems (#1880)
- - Properly raise errors for invalid source URI protocols
- - Change the wget fetcher failure handling to avoid lockfile problems
- - Add support for branches in git fetcher (Otavio Salvador, Michael Lauer)
- - Make taskdata and runqueue errors more user friendly
- - Add norecurse and fullpath options to cvs fetcher
- - Fix exit code for build failures in --continue mode
- - Fix git branch tags fetching
- - Change parseConfigurationFile so it works on real data, not a copy
- - Handle 'base' inherit and all other INHERITs from parseConfigurationFile
- instead of BBHandler
- - Fix getVarFlags bug in data_smart
- - Optmise cache handling by more quickly detecting an invalid cache, only
- saving the cache when its changed, moving the cache validity check into
- the parsing loop and factoring some getVar calls outside a for loop
- - Cooker: Remove a debug message from the parsing loop to lower overhead
- - Convert build.py exec_task to use getVarFlags
- - Update shell to use cooker.buildFile
- - Add StampUpdate event
- - Convert -b option to use taskdata/runqueue
- - Remove digraph and switch to new stamp checking code. exec_task no longer
- honours dependencies
- - Make fetcher timestamp updating non-fatal when permissions don't allow
- updates
- - Add BB_SCHEDULER variable/option ("completion" or "speed") controlling
- the way bitbake schedules tasks
- - Add BB_STAMP_POLICY variable/option ("perfile" or "full") controlling
- how extensively stamps are looked at for validity
- - When handling build target failures make sure idepends are checked and
- failed where needed. Fixes --continue mode crashes.
- - Fix -f (force) in conjunction with -b
- - Fix problems with recrdeptask handling where some idepends weren't handled
- correctly.
- - Handle exit codes correctly (from pH5)
- - Work around refs/HEAD issues with git over http (#3410)
- - Add proxy support to the CVS fetcher (from Cyril Chemparathy)
- - Improve runfetchcmd so errors are seen and various GIT variables are exported
- - Add ability to fetchers to check URL validity without downloading
- - Improve runtime PREFERRED_PROVIDERS warning message
- - Add BB_STAMP_WHITELIST option which contains a list of stamps to ignore when
- checking stamp dependencies and using a BB_STAMP_POLICY of "whitelist"
- - No longer weight providers on the basis of a package being "already staged". This
- leads to builds being non-deterministic.
- - Flush stdout/stderr before forking to fix duplicate console output
- - Make sure recrdeps tasks include all inter-task dependencies of a given fn
- - Add bb.runqueue.check_stamp_fn() for use by packaged-staging
- - Add PERSISTENT_DIR to store the PersistData in a persistent
- directory != the cache dir.
- - Add md5 and sha256 checksum generation functions to utils.py
- - Correctly handle '-' characters in class names (#2958)
- - Make sure expandKeys has been called on the data dictionary before running tasks
- - Correctly add a task override in the form task-TASKNAME.
- - Revert the '-' character fix in class names since it breaks things
- - When a regexp fails to compile for PACKAGES_DYNAMIC, print a more useful error (#4444)
- - Allow to checkout CVS by Date and Time. Just add HHmm to the SRCDATE.
- - Move prunedir function to utils.py and add explode_dep_versions function
- - Raise an exception if SRCREV == 'INVALID'
- - Fix hg fetcher username/password handling and fix crash
- - Fix PACKAGES_DYNAMIC handling of packages with '++' in the name
- - Rename __depends to __base_depends after configuration parsing so we don't
- recheck the validity of the config files time after time
- - Add better environmental variable handling. By default it will now only pass certain
- whitelisted variables into the data store. If BB_PRESERVE_ENV is set bitbake will use
- all variable from the environment. If BB_ENV_WHITELIST is set, that whitelist will be
- used instead of the internal bitbake one. Alternatively, BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE can be used
- to extend the internal whitelist.
- - Perforce fetcher fix to use commandline options instead of being overriden by the environment
- - bb.utils.prunedir can cope with symlinks to directoriees without exceptions
- - use @rev when doing a svn checkout
- - Add osc fetcher (from Joshua Lock in Poky)
- - When SRCREV autorevisioning for a recipe is in use, don't cache the recipe
- - Add tryaltconfigs option to control whether bitbake trys using alternative providers
- to fulfil failed dependencies. It defaults to off, changing the default since this
- behaviour confuses many users and isn't often useful.
- - Improve lock file function error handling
- - Add username handling to the git fetcher (Robert Bragg)
- - Add support for HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_IGNORE variables to the wget fetcher
- - Export more variables to the fetcher commands to allow ssh checkouts and checkouts through
- proxies to work better. (from Poky)
- - Also allow user and pswd options in SRC_URIs globally (from Poky)
- - Improve proxy handling when using mirrors (from Poky)
- - Add bb.utils.prune_suffix function
- - Fix hg checkouts of specific revisions (from Poky)
- - Fix wget fetching of urls with parameters specified (from Poky)
- - Add username handling to git fetcher (from Poky)
- - Set HOME environmental variable when running fetcher commands (from Poky)
- - Make sure allowed variables inherited from the environment are exported again (from Poky)
- - When running a stage task in bbshell, run populate_staging, not the stage task (from Poky)
- - Fix + character escaping from PACKAGES_DYNAMIC (thanks Otavio Salvador)
- - Addition of BBCLASSEXTEND support for allowing one recipe to provide multiple targets (from Poky)
- Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
- - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
- Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
- - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
- of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
- and taskdata.py
- - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
- threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
- - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
- courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
- - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
- - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
- - Allow 'interactive' tasks
- - Logging message improvements
- - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
- - Add support for wildcards to -b option
- - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
- including mirroring code
- - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
- - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
- - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
- - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
- - Add abort flag support to the shell
- - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
- - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
- - Add ssh fetcher
- - Add perforce fetcher
- - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
- - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
- - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
- *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
- - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
- This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
- - Add manpage
- - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
- and also adding a task dependency graph
- - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
- - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
- separate funcitons
- - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
- - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
- - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
- Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
- - Better msg handling
- - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
- to better performance
- - Speed up of -s
- Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
- - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
- - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
- Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
- - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
- fixes #856
- - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
- dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
- virtual/libc dependency
- - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
- - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
- into it
- - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
- - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
- Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
- - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
- - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
- - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
- - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
- - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
- - Change the format of the cache
- - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
- - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
- giving a major performance increase when reparsing
- with few data changes
- Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
- - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
- development of new Fetchers.
- Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
- - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
- (CVSDATE).
- Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
- - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
- Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
- - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
- BitBake Shell
- - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
- a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
- - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
- to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
- file can not be found.
- - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
- courtsey pHilipp Zabel
- - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
- - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
- this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
- (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
- Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
- - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
- - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
- - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
- - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
- - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
- - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
- - Update the bitbake usermanual
- Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
- - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
- - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
- - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
- - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
- - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
- downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
- to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
- - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
- persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
- - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
- additional parameters
- - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
- each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
- storage
- Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
- The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
- ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
- - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
- get a instance of a data class
- - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
- - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
- - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
|