On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 7:35 PM Trevor Woerner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yocto Technical Team Minutes, Engineering Sync, for April 20, 2021 > archive: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ly8nyhO14kDNnFcW2QskANXW3ZT7QwKC5wWVDg9dDH4/edit > > == announcements == > The upcoming Yocto Project Summit is taking place May 25-26 2021 > details: https://www.yoctoproject.org/yocto-project-virtual-summit-2021/ > CfP: https://pretalx.com/yocto-project-summit-2021/cfp > registration: > https://www.cvent.com/d/yjq4dr/4W?ct=868bfddd-ca91-46bb-aaa5-62d2b61b2501 > > == disclaimer == > Best efforts are made to ensure the below is accurate and valid. However, > errors sometimes happen. If any errors or omissions are found, please feel > free to reply to this email with any corrections. > > == attendees == > Trevor Woerner, Stephen Jolley, Armin Kuster, Steve Sakoman, Peter > Kjellerstedt, Alexandre Belloni, Michael Opdenacker, Scott Murray, Jon > Mason, Michael Halstead, Richard Purdie, Bruce Ashfield, Ross Burton, Randy > MacLeod, Saul Wold, Tim Orling, Daiane Angolini > > == notes == > - 3.3 (hardknott) released!! > - 3.1.7 (dunfell) through QA, pending TSC approval > - YP TSC: 3 seats re-elected, 2 seats up for re-election > - master branch open for 3.4 (honister) and things are starting to merge > - new command proposed: bitbake-getvar > - AB issues: 59 (going up) > > == general == > RP: the re-election for OE TSC is coming up in August, but the re-election > for > the YP TSC is in May. a call for candidates will be going out soon > TrevorW: do we want to align the voting with the conference? > RP: probably not > > > MichaelO: is there a 3.3 celebration? > RP: usually we do it at the conferences, but we’ll have to do it at the > virtual one this year > MichaelO: i didn’t see anything on lwn > RP: we don’t have a mechanism for this > MichaelO: there are usually release notes > RP: yocto-announce mailing list > TrevorW: release notes? > RP: yes, PaulE put together some notes > TrevorW: is someone putting a release note together? > MichaelO: okay, i’ll put it together and email internally first > RP: advocacy is less that it was, if people can think of places to > help/advertise that would be great. sometime i publish something in > the LF > newsletter > I think we should indeed improve that a bit. As far as I know, the only place for the release notes is the 'email' sent to yocto-announce, which includes the content from this file: http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-3.3/RELEASENOTES At the very least we should probably produce (as part of the release process) a similar document that we publish on the website site. That would help us share the news on various social media. We either need to reformat the content for the web , e.g. more verbose, or at least copy/paste into an html page. We also recently discussed moving the release notes to docs.yp.org, so perhaps that could be enough to publish it here. The point is it's simpler to share a link on twitter, linkedin, .. that this 'raw/text' file. > > > RP: bitbake-getvar, instead of “bitbake -e | grep”. saves people some > keystrokes > RP: uses tinfoil, acts as a very good, very small example of how to write a > small tinfoil tool (e.g. c larson’s bb tool). maybe a way of expanding > this infrastructure to make it easier to add tools in the future, > perhaps > expandable in layers itself > RP: also perhaps could be used for layer and config setup (e.g. kas, > combo-layer) > AlexB: sounds great! i often show students “bitbake -e | grep” and > they’re often surprised and happy to see it > ScottM: +1 > RP: it’s in master-next. there are probably a lot of tutorials that will > need updating after this :-) and there are places in selftest where we > do > “bitbake -e | grep” (it runs it once then builds a dictionary of the > results to avoid having to run it multiple times throughout the test > run) > RossB: it’s similar to bbvars > RP: i’d like to keep it simple, single variable, i don’t want to get too > much scope creep which makes it more complicated. not meant to solve > all > problems, just solve one elegantly. if we add something to take > multiple > vars then we’d have to return JSON (?) or something else that would be > machine-parsable > RP: i think a separate command to do multiple vars would be best > > > PeterK: don't forget to move poky-conf back to master > RP: ah, thanks > > > Saul: CentOS 8 issues, grrr > RP: i haven’t looked into it > Saul: i think qemu is dying and qmp is trying to read the linux socket and > getting nothing. maybe i could take out the centos builder for a while > RP: sounds reasonable. if you want to pull one builder out to work on it, > that > would be fine > Saul: i’ll talk to MichaelH about it > > > Saul: any cmake experts out there? > <crickets> > Saul: i have a nasty cmake + python issue wrt ceph: it doesn’t find the > core gcc libraries, sysroot being set to /not/exist. i think there’s an > environment passing issue between cmake and the python > RP: that /not/exist is something *we* hardcode into the compiler to make > sure > sysroot gets set > Bruce: have a look at what we did in libvirt recently. we had a similar > issue > with meson whereby it couldn’t find getent from libc. we had to create > a > patch. meson+cmake couldn’t find getent from libc > RossB: i’ll take a look at your patch Bruce, meson acts strange in some > ways, but sometimes there’s a way to straighten it out > > > ScottM: Steve: 3.1.7 this week? > SteveS: up to TSC to approve it > RP: it’s through QA, QA didn’t flag any issues (there was one failure but > it succeeded on a subsequent build). the TSC meeting is later today, > so if > they approve it’ll be out by tomorrow > > > Randy: latency monitoring. turned down from 10 to 6 seconds, tuned timeout > from 5 to 15 seconds. new column in AB console to link to this new > data. > generates graphs of “time to dd 100 kb periodically” to hopefully help > correlate failures with load. we usually see 3-5 seconds but sometimes > 50s > for unexplained reasons > RP: that’s very interesting. but we still don’t know what the system is > doing at those times when we see the 20. it’s one thing to know it’s > happening, it’s another to know why. i’ve noticed that webkit builds > add a lot of load, also compression adds a lot of load (xz) > Randy: behind on the rust things since i’ve been working on this > > > RP: speaking of languages, Go also worries me. Go has 2 issues: the fetcher > is messy and builds are not reproducible. are there any Go experts in > our > community who can help? > TimO: Bruce and I have been struggling over a bunch of things, but it’s not > fun > Bruce: working on something; i’m currently up to 37 fetches, but it’s not > just fetching but also a layout issue. if you fetch something to “c/a” > but Go expects to find it at “a” then it won’t use it > Randy: someone wrote a cargo module for Rust to do something similar (i.e. > a > translation between Rust and bitbake), would that pattern be useful > here? > Bruce: probably, hard to know at what point we need to make deep changes vs > patches on the surface. the “make” infrastructure doesn’t help, too > many hard-coded paths and options in the Go “make” files > RP: and that’s only ½ the problem (still have build reproducibility issues) > Bruce: Khem can bump the Go version, but then we need to chase after all > these > fixes > > > Randy: suricata? > Armin: yes, those are in meta-security now, donated by ARM > Randy: did you use a cargo build > Armin: it was a couple things, had to start with one but then switch over > partway > > > TrevorW: is there any update on the “layout of where patches go” work? > RP: you mean “work directory” vs “source directory”? > RP: pretty invasive things, put it aside for now. a change like this will > end > up causing lots of follow-on issues for weeks to come. the cleanup > would > be nice, don’t know if the cost is worth it and would eat up my time > for > a while. although i agree the time would be best now to do it (start of > new release). i think this is the second time i’ve tried > > > RP: parallel make job server (another such example of something I’ve looked > at and think would be nice, but have had to put aside for the > time-being) > RP: the todo list isn’t too bad, but it’s something that fell off to the > side. > RP: i get the feeling that some of the things Randy is trying to track down > (load on AB servers) might end up being helped by having a parallel job > server, but we just don’t know > ScottM: is that branch still around. i’m interested in tinkering with it > RP: ignore the branch, just take the commit. > RP: i had hard-coded the fifo to one place (/tmp) on the machine, which > means > every build on that machine is tied together. is that good or bad? > ScottM: is that something you could see being global for all bitbake on the > machine > RP: as long as all the builds are being run by the same user. probably > need to > create a separate fifo, give it a relevant name, and place it somewhere > where each user can access it themselves. maybe i should try it on the > AB > and see what blows up > > > >
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