1803 2011-12-01 14:42:41 +0000 Add helper shell commands 2018-01-18 16:19:09 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime Meta-yocto meta-yocto unspecified x86 Multiple RESOLVED WONTFIX Medium enhancement Future 1 josh richard.purdie bluelightning joshuagloe Martin.Jansa poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher richard.purdie scott.a.garman sgw song.liu --- --- Yes (doc changes required) oldest_to_newest 17460 0 josh 2011-12-01 14:42:41 +0000 It'd be a great usability enhancement to implement a suite of shell commands to help CLI users interoperate with the system which are 'enabled' when the oe-init-build-env script is sourced. Some examples to get us started: oecd PN - change into the directory containing metadata for the package PN. oeed PN <FILE> - open the recipe file for PN with $EDITOR, if the optional FILE is passed open file FILE within the tree of PN. oels PN <SUBDIR> - list the contents of the metadata directory for PN. Example usage: joshual@shamshir:~/Projects/Yocto/poky $ oels connman connman-0.75 connman-gnome_0.5.bb connman_0.75.bb connman-gnome connman.inc joshual@shamshir:~/Projects/Yocto/poky $ oels connman connman-0.75 add_xuser_dbus_permission.patch dbusperms.patch connman xtables_version.patch joshual@shamshir:~/Projects/Yocto/poky $ oecd connman $ ls connman-0.75 connman-gnome_0.5.bb connman_0.75.bb connman-gnome connman.inc connman_git.bb joshual@shamshir:~/Projects/Yocto/poky $ oecd connman connman-gnome $ ls 3g.patch security-type.patch $ pwd /home/joshual/Projects/Yocto/poky/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-gnome joshual@shamshir:~/Projects/Yocto/poky $ oeed connman There are two bb recipes in /home/joshual/Projects/Yocto/poky/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman, please select an option and press return to continue, return with no selection will pick the default (*): 1) connman_0.75.bb (*) 2) connman-gnome_0.5.bb 3) connman.inc <<Return loads /home/joshual/Projects/Yocto/poky/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman_0.75.bb with $EDITOR>> joshual@shamshir:~/Projects/Yocto/poky $ oeed connman xtables_version.patch <<Loads /home/joshual/Projects/Yocto/poky/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-0.75/xtables_version.patch with $EDITOR>> It will be necessary to have the commands be aware of bblayers.conf entries and the layers' priorities. I envisage that under the hood these commands would just be running find over the enabled layers with some simple heuristics (search higher priority layers first, etc). 43096 1 Martin.Jansa 2014-05-03 17:38:26 +0000 We wanted to document our own developer workflows for different types of developers, that could be great source of commands which should be simplified by these helpers. 45799 2 richard.purdie 2014-09-24 13:50:10 +0000 Martin: I'd love to see any workflow documentation like that you might have... 55563 3 bluelightning 2015-10-21 14:41:55 +0000 devtool accomplishes at least part of where I think this was aimed, FWIW. 79146 4 joshuagloe 2018-01-18 16:19:09 +0000 devtool is able to accomplish the tricky parts of what this bug requests and is a more complete solution to simplifying working with OE metadata, in light of devtool these helpers don't make much sense.