On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 14:51, Steve Sakoman <st...@sakoman.com> wrote:
>
> Issues with undetected file mode corruption in pseudo have been identified.
>
> Fixes have been merged into master and gatesgarth over the past several 
> months and
> things seem to have stabilized enough that we can consider backporting these 
> fixes
> to dunfell.
>
> This is a somewhat more invasive change than normal. Specifically the user 
> will
> be required to clean TMPDIR after this merge. It may also expose issues with
> other layers, though master and gategarth have probably helped to pave the 
> way for
> this change.
>
> Personally I think that this fixes a serious enough issue that we should 
> consider
> this series for dunfell.
>
> This second version includes the wic patches which have been the gating item 
> for
> merging this series.
>
> Note also that there is an associated bitbake patch for stable/1.46:
>
> lib/bb/utils.py: Do not preserve TERM in the environment
>
> This is due to taking:
>
> bitbake.conf: Remove TERM from default BB_HASHBASE_WHITELIST
>
> which was needed to do clean cherry-picks of the pseudo changes.

If this is just brought in to allow clean cherry-picks I think it
would be better left out and instead do the small bit of rebasing
required in the patches. We don't know what downstream users are doing
with TERM so minimising unnecessary changes in the stable branch is
preferable.

Everything else looks good to me at a glance.

-- 
Paul Barker
Konsulko Group
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