bbappend SRC_URI restriction request

bbappend SRC_URI restriction request

[jared_terry]

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I'm building in Yocto 3.1.3 with bitbake 1.46.0 and I had a co-worker do a bbappend with this in it

PV = "231"
SRC_URI = "https://github.com/systemd/systemd-bootchart/releases/download/v${PV}/${PN}-${PV}.tar.xz"

now the hard part is this is a append applying over the top of systemd-bootchart_233.bb and since the SRC_URI = is a complete wipe of the value in the bb file its basically doing a forced override.

is it possible to set it up so this throws a warning?  This is something I would think would be very bad in a bbappend file and basically bypasses the bitbake-layers show-overlayed I've been using to detect who has forced an override of whats in poky.

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Re: [bitbake-devel] bbappend SRC_URI restriction request

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:03 PM <jared_terry@dell.com> wrote:
>
> I'm building in Yocto 3.1.3 with bitbake 1.46.0 and I had a co-worker do a bbappend with this in it
>
> PV = "231"
> SRC_URI = "https://github.com/systemd/systemd-bootchart/releases/download/v${PV}/${PN}-${PV}.tar.xz"
>
> now the hard part is this is a append applying over the top of systemd-bootchart_233.bb and since the SRC_URI = is a complete wipe of the value in the bb file its basically doing a forced override.
>
> is it possible to set it up so this throws a warning?  This is something I would think would be very bad in a bbappend file and basically bypasses the bitbake-layers show-overlayed I've been using to detect who has forced an override of whats in poky.

Technically, bbappends are not limited in any way than the main recipe
and hence we don't have such tools, have we decided that SRC_URIs can
not be overridden but only appended to then such a check would make
sense globally, however
if it matters to you perhaps you can think of writing a QA check in
insane bbclass perhaps.

>
> 
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Re: [bitbake-devel] bbappend SRC_URI restriction request

[Ross Burton]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 00:03, <jared_terry@dell.com> wrote:
> is it possible to set it up so this throws a warning?  This is something I would think would be very bad in a bbappend file

Apart from when it's exactly what you want to do, of course. I've
definitely written appends which replace a tarball+patches with a git
repository.

> and basically bypasses the bitbake-layers show-overlayed I've been using to detect who has forced an override of whats in poky.

How does that bypass show-overlayed?

Ross