Bug 4143

Summary: Support real-time logging when using bitbake interactively
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake Reporter: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel>
Component: bitbakeAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium CC: david.reyna, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, randy.macleod, tgamblin
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: Future   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Jason Wessel 2013-03-28 18:27:43 UTC 
After executing a long running bitbake command, it is often useful to be able to active logging of what is going on at certain points on demand.  This is referred to as "real time" logging. 

Originally this was a patch series posted here:

http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/bitbake-devel/2012-September/003629.html

Jason Wessel has kept this patch series current with the bitbake master which required some context changes over what was originally posted.  It would be good to consider merging this with what ever the future of the interactive bitbake shell holds.
Comment 1 Randy MacLeod 2020-05-14 08:15:33 UTC 
Defaulting to this behviour isn't what we should do. It's fine to support this patch but it shouldn't be enabled by default. We need a way to support other interactive modes for bitbake such as bbshell that used to exist.