3575 2012-12-12 18:33:48 +0000 Improve hob client communication with bitbake backend via xmlrpc 2013-07-10 10:30:21 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime Toaster toaster unspecified x86 Multiple VERIFIED FIXED Medium+ enhancement 1.5 M1 3211 4648 4649 1 jessica.zhang alexandru.damian alexandru.damian andreea.b.proca belen.barros.pena cristian.iorga mihai.lindner poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher richard.purdie valentin.popa --- --- --- oldest_to_newest 28199 0 jessica.zhang 2012-12-12 18:33:48 +0000 28889 1 bogdan.a.marinescu 2013-01-17 09:46:34 +0000 Do we want to have this feature for bitbake too or only for hob? In other words, should "bitbake" be usable like this: $ bitbake --server server:port -t xmlrpc <target> or is this feature applicable to Hob only ? 28938 2 richard.purdie 2013-01-18 12:56:40 +0000 There is no good reason knotty shouldn't work with a remote server over xmlrpc? 29032 3 bogdan.a.marinescu 2013-01-22 13:06:39 +0000 (In reply to comment #2) > There is no good reason knotty shouldn't work with a remote server over > xmlrpc? There are a few that I've found. The main problem comes from the fact that the server is initialized like this: server = server.BitBakeServer() if configuration.bind: server.initServer((configuration.bind, 0)) else: server.initServer() idle = server.getServerIdleCB() cooker = bb.cooker.BBCooker(configuration, idle, initialenv) cooker.parseCommandLine() server.addcooker(cooker) server.saveConnectionDetails() server.detach() As you can see, parseCommandLine is called when the server is initialized. If we switch to client/server model, the command line on the client side won't be taken into account, since it's not ever parsed. Fortunately, this is fairly easy to fix (by moving the command line parsing on the client side). The real problem, which is related to the one above, comes from dealing with conf/local.conf. This is parsed early in the cooker (loadConfigurationData) and again, the cooker is "linked" with the server and initialized at server creation time. Even if we add a "reparseConfigurationData" method to the cooker, if the client 'bitbake' is started from a different build directory, we need access to that build's directory conf/ files. Hob works differently in this respect, since the user sets the required configuration data in the interface and then Hob calls setVariable on the server, thus setting the proper configuration. Of course, this can be done with knotty or any other user interface too, but it definitely needs some work and should probably be the subject of another bug. 29033 4 bogdan.a.marinescu 2013-01-22 13:08:06 +0000 I've uploaded my changes for this bug to the contrib/bogdanm/b3575 branch. Please review them. I'd like to have a review before uploading the patches, as I expect some comments on the implementation. 33895 5 alexandru.damian 2013-06-13 16:32:26 +0000 Patches are posted on the mail list and waiting integration. 34452 6 mihai.lindner 2013-07-10 07:42:54 +0000 Upon resolving this bug, we would expect some references to changes that address this bug, or to some documentation that could shed some light on what we're actually looking for. Thanks. 34456 7 alexandru.damian 2013-07-10 08:29:00 +0000 please use bitbake --server-only -t xmlrpc -B localhost:8200 bitbake --remote-server localhost:8200 -t xmlrpc [command] to run commands on the remote server the server can be on the same machine or on different machines 34463 8 andreea.b.proca 2013-07-10 10:30:21 +0000 Verified.