Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 2/2] bitbake-setup: write notes for generated build configs

"Antonin Godard" <[email protected]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:05:17 +0200
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On Fri May 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM CEST, Ernest Van Hoecke via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Ernest Van Hoecke <[email protected]>
>
> For bb-layers configurations, bitbake-setup currently writes an empty
> "conf-notes.txt". Configurations using "oe-template" get this file from
> the template.
>
> Add an optional field called "notes" to configurations that populates
> this field when "bb-layers" is used instead of "oe-template".

Suggestion: call the field "conf-notes" so it matches the resulting filename?

Also, I supposed newlines must be explicitly written in the string ("\n")? Are
those properly converted, or does it need escaping of some sorts?

Thanks,
Antonin