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diff --git a/bitbake-dev/ChangeLog b/bitbake-dev/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1ee7fd363 --- /dev/null +++ b/bitbake-dev/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,276 @@ +Changes in Bitbake 1.9.x: + - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5) + - Treat python functions the same as shell functions for logging + - Use TMPDIR/anonfunc as a __anonfunc temp directory (T) + - Catch truncated cache file errors + - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables + - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies + - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs + - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin) + - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236) + - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062) + - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124) + - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level + - Update manual + - Correctly redirect stdin when forking + - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors + - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings + - svn fetcher: Add _buildsvncommand function + - Improve certain error messages + - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier + as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes + (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf) + - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624) + - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete + - Add SRCREV support for svn fetcher + - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable + - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code) + - Make sure intertask depends get processed correcting in recursive depends + - Add pn-PN to overrides when evaluating PREFERRED_VERSION + - Improve the progress indicator by skipping tasks that have + already run before starting the build rather than during it + - Add profiling option (-P) + - Add BB_SRCREV_POLICY variable (clear or cache) to control SRCREV cache + - Add SRCREV_FORMAT support + - Fix local fetcher's localpath return values + - Apply OVERRIDES before performing immediate expansions + - Allow the -b -e option combination to take regular expressions + - Fix handling of variables with expansion in the name using _append/_prepend + e.g. RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_append_xyz = "abc" + - Add plain message function to bb.msg + - Sort the list of providers before processing so dependency problems are + reproducible rather than effectively random + - Fix/improve bitbake -s output + - Add locking for fetchers so only one tries to fetch a given file at a given time + - Fix int(0)/None confusion in runqueue.py which causes random gaps in dependency chains + - Expand data in addtasks + - Print the list of missing DEPENDS,RDEPENDS for the "No buildable providers available for required...." + error message. + - Rework add_task to be more efficient (6% speedup, 7% number of function calls reduction) + - Sort digraph output to make builds more reproducible + - Split expandKeys into two for loops to benefit from the expand_cache (12% speedup) + - runqueue.py: Fix idepends handling to avoid dependency errors + - Clear the terminal TOSTOP flag if set (and warn the user) + - Fix regression from r653 and make SRCDATE/CVSDATE work for packages again + - Fix a bug in bb.decodeurl where http://some.where.com/somefile.tgz decoded to host="" (#1530) + - Warn about malformed PREFERRED_PROVIDERS (#1072) + - Add support for BB_NICE_LEVEL option (#1627) + - Psyco is used only on x86 as there is no support for other architectures. + - Sort initial providers list by default preference (#1145, #2024) + - Improve provider sorting so prefered versions have preference over latest versions (#768) + - Detect builds of tasks with overlapping providers and warn (will become a fatal error) (#1359) + - Add MULTI_PROVIDER_WHITELIST variable to allow known safe multiple providers to be listed + - Handle paths in svn fetcher module parameter + - Support the syntax "export VARIABLE" + - Add bzr fetcher + - Add support for cleaning directories before a task in the form: + do_taskname[cleandirs] = "dir" + - bzr fetcher tweaks from Robert Schuster (#2913) + - Add mercurial (hg) fetcher from Robert Schuster (#2913) + - Don't add duplicates to BBPATH + - Fix preferred_version return values (providers.py) + - Fix 'depends' flag splitting + - Fix unexport handling (#3135) + - Add bb.copyfile function similar to bb.movefile (and improve movefile error reporting) + - Allow multiple options for deptask flag + - Use git-fetch instead of git-pull removing any need for merges when + fetching (we don't care about the index). Fixes fetch errors. + - Add BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS option, set to 0 to make git fetches + faster at the expense of not creating mirror tarballs. + - SRCREV handling updates, improvements and fixes from Poky + - Add bb.utils.lockfile() and bb.utils.unlockfile() from Poky + - Add support for task selfstamp and lockfiles flags + - Disable task number acceleration since it can allow the tasks to run + out of sequence + - Improve runqueue code comments + - Add task scheduler abstraction and some example schedulers + - Improve circular dependency chain debugging code and user feedback + - Don't give a stacktrace for invalid tasks, have a user friendly message (#3431) + - Add support for "-e target" (#3432) + - Fix shell showdata command (#3259) + - Fix shell data updating problems (#1880) + - Properly raise errors for invalid source URI protocols + - Change the wget fetcher failure handling to avoid lockfile problems + - Add support for branches in git fetcher (Otavio Salvador, Michael Lauer) + - Make taskdata and runqueue errors more user friendly + - Add norecurse and fullpath options to cvs fetcher + - Fix exit code for build failures in --continue mode + - Fix git branch tags fetching + - Change parseConfigurationFile so it works on real data, not a copy + - Handle 'base' inherit and all other INHERITs from parseConfigurationFile + instead of BBHandler + - Fix getVarFlags bug in data_smart + - Optmise cache handling by more quickly detecting an invalid cache, only + saving the cache when its changed, moving the cache validity check into + the parsing loop and factoring some getVar calls outside a for loop + - Cooker: Remove a debug message from the parsing loop to lower overhead + - Convert build.py exec_task to use getVarFlags + - Update shell to use cooker.buildFile + - Add StampUpdate event + - Convert -b option to use taskdata/runqueue + - Remove digraph and switch to new stamp checking code. exec_task no longer + honours dependencies + - Make fetcher timestamp updating non-fatal when permissions don't allow + updates + - Add BB_SCHEDULER variable/option ("completion" or "speed") controlling + the way bitbake schedules tasks + - Add BB_STAMP_POLICY variable/option ("perfile" or "full") controlling + how extensively stamps are looked at for validity + - When handling build target failures make sure idepends are checked and + failed where needed. Fixes --continue mode crashes. + - Fix -f (force) in conjunction with -b + - Fix problems with recrdeptask handling where some idepends weren't handled + correctly. + - Handle exit codes correctly (from pH5) + - Work around refs/HEAD issues with git over http (#3410) + - Add proxy support to the CVS fetcher (from Cyril Chemparathy) + - Improve runfetchcmd so errors are seen and various GIT variables are exported + - Add ability to fetchers to check URL validity without downloading + - Improve runtime PREFERRED_PROVIDERS warning message + - Add BB_STAMP_WHITELIST option which contains a list of stamps to ignore when + checking stamp dependencies and using a BB_STAMP_POLICY of "whitelist" + - No longer weight providers on the basis of a package being "already staged". This + leads to builds being non-deterministic. + - Flush stdout/stderr before forking to fix duplicate console output + - Make sure recrdeps tasks include all inter-task dependencies of a given fn + - Add bb.runqueue.check_stamp_fn() for use by packaged-staging + - Add PERSISTENT_DIR to store the PersistData in a persistent + directory != the cache dir. + - Add md5 and sha256 checksum generation functions to utils.py + +Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0: + - Release 1.7.x as a stable series + +Changes in BitBake 1.7.x: + - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution + of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py + and taskdata.py + - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic + threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS + - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around + courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367) + - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108) + - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l) + - Allow 'interactive' tasks + - Logging message improvements + - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable + - Add support for wildcards to -b option + - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common + including mirroring code + - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity) + - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug) + - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup) + - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now) + - Add abort flag support to the shell + - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478) + - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values + - Add ssh fetcher + - Add perforce fetcher + - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available + - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls + - Compile all anonfuncs at once! + *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format *** + - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS + This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup + - Add manpage + - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy + and also adding a task dependency graph + - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence + - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into + separate funcitons + - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port + - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile + - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts + +Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0: + - Better msg handling + - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading + to better performance + - Speed up of -s + +Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4: + - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin + - #1017 fix to work with rm_work + +Changes in BitBake 1.4.2: + - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com + fixes #856 + - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the + dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a + virtual/libc dependency + - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries + - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing + into it + - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout + - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass) + +Changes in BitBake 1.4.0: + - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN} + - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps() + - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes + - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages + - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements + - Change the format of the cache + - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers + - Major changes to caching with a new strategy + giving a major performance increase when reparsing + with few data changes + +Changes in BitBake 1.3.3: + - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the + development of new Fetchers. + Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com + - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date + (CVSDATE). + Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com + - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly + Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com + - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the + BitBake Shell + - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as + a generic naming to replace CVSDATE. + - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast + to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included + file can not be found. + - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch + courtsey pHilipp Zabel + - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com) + - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g + this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages. + (rpurdie@openedhand.com). + +Changes in BitBake 1.3.2: + - reintegration of make.py into BitBake + - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e + - lots of shell updates and bugfixes + - Introduction of the .= and =. operator + - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc + - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS + - Update the bitbake usermanual + +Changes in BitBake 1.3.0: + - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i) + - refactor bitbake utility in OO style + - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module + - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module + - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be + downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed + to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page) + - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non + persisting mode (called data_smart.py) + - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry + additional parameters + - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding + each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent + storage + +Changes in BitBake 1.2.1: + The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the + ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are: + + - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to + get a instance of a data class + - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates + - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead. + - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch + |