Bug 12299

Summary: devtool help should short circuit (avoid) starting up bitbake.
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: brian avery <brian.avery>
Component: devtools / tool chainAssignee: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Undecided CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: 2.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description brian avery 2017-11-03 20:14:06 UTC 
starting bitbake takes a bit and is useless for the help printout.
This is minor, though annoying if you do it a few times in a row :/
Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2017-11-05 19:20:30 UTC 
I'm not sure we can do much about this. devtool supports extension through layers added to BBLAYERS and needs bitbake to tell it the final value of that variable - and that is needed for plugins to be able to register themselves and add arguments that are used to construct the help output.
Comment 2 brian avery 2017-11-09 15:50:45 UTC 
Paul's comment makes sense. Additionally, keeping bitbake server alive would alleviate the delay anyway.