[OpenWrt-Devel] [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 00/15] Metadata generator refactoring, cleanup and PROVIDES improvements

[Matthias Schiffer]

On 01/08/2018 03:52 PM, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> When attempting to fix FS#837, I decided to treat our metadata generator to
> a greater refactoring, which resulted in this patchset. FS#837 is fixed in
> patch 13.
> 
> I also removed two seemingly obsolete features, "preconfig" and "package
> features", which are not used by any package in the OpenWrt/LEDE base or
> our default feeds.
> 
> The changes in this patchset also improve dependency diagnostics and
> clearly separate between build depends (on source packages) and runtime
> depends (on binary packages, implying build depends). This requires some
> fixes in package Makefiles with broken dependencies (patch 10, [1], [2]).
> 
> There are also broken runtime depends in many feed packages, which I did
> not fix, but which will be shown more prominently during prepare-tmpinfo
> now. I'm not sure what the best way to handle such broken dependencies is,
> as they might also be caused by missing feeds, e.g. LuCI depending on
> telephony packages.
> - Keep the warning, but try to build the packages as before (current
>   solution in this patchset)?
> - Hide the warning again (old state)?
> - Ignore packages with missing build dependencies altogether (just show a
>   warning in the metadata generators)?
> 
> As hinted in patch 15, I have further refactoring in mind, but let's try to
> get this set reviewed and committed first...
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias

I've pushed an updated branch fixing the mistake Jo pointed out and some
other stylistic improvements to the metadata2 branch of my staging tree [3].


> [1] https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/5370
> [2] https://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages/pull/345

[3]
https://git.lede-project.org/?p=openwrt/staging/neoraider.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/metadata2

> 
> 
> Matthias Schiffer (15):
>   metadata: remove 'base-files' special case
>   metadata: make srcpackage extensible
>   metadata: move 'buildtypes' from binary to source packages
>   metadata: move 'builddepends' from binary to source packages
>   metadata: interate over source packages when generating Makefile
>   metadata: change pkg->{src} field to hold a reference
>   metadata: replace %subdir hash with a path field in source packages
>   metadata: remove redundant fields from package hash
>   build: remove package preconfig feature
>   treewide: fix build depends to refer to source package names
>   metadata: handle target build depends together with host build depends
>   metadata: simplify generation of build depends from runtime depends
>   metadata: always resolve dependencies through provides list
>   build: remove obsolete "package feature" feature
>   include/package-dumpinfo.mk: don't duplicate source package
>     information for every binary package
> 
>  include/autotools.mk                         |   4 +-
>  include/nls.mk                               |   2 +-
>  include/package-dumpinfo.mk                  |  53 +----
>  package/Makefile                             |   3 -
>  package/network/config/ltq-adsl-app/Makefile |   2 +-
>  package/network/config/ltq-vdsl-app/Makefile |   2 +-
>  scripts/feeds                                |  28 +--
>  scripts/metadata.pm                          | 101 +++------
>  scripts/package-metadata.pl                  | 299 +++++++++------------------
>  9 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 336 deletions(-)
> 


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