Bug 15294 - Implement a devtool unpack tracer to correctly handle multiple sources in SRC_URI with devtool
Summary: Implement a devtool unpack tracer to correctly handle multiple sources in SRC...
Status: NEW
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Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: devtools / tool chain (show other bugs)
Version: 5.99
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium+ normal
Target Milestone: 6.99
Assignee: Unassigned
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Reported: 2023-11-23 10:31 UTC by Julien Stephan
Modified: 2026-02-20 14:44 UTC (History)
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Description Julien Stephan 2023-11-23 10:31:35 UTC 
Devtool was not designed with multiple sources in SRC_URI in mind and suffers from several limitations (non exhaustive list): 

* secondary sources not extracted into S are lost on devtool modify (see bug 15162: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15162)

* if case secondary sources is extracted in S it is not always possible to extract patches created buy the user with the correct "patchdir" parameter

* for file://, that are not patch, if user modify the file and commit it the devtool source, devtool finish will update the local file AND create a new patch

Most of these issue s may be solved by implementing a devtool unpack tracer (https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?id=ef3e46afd910d4b7727d42c4c18b501525c65695. Using a devtool unpack tracer will also hopefully help to clean some part of devtool code