RE: [PATCH v6 19/21] RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG: Add tips after bitbake version update

["Schmidt, Adriaan" <adriaan.schmidt@siemens.com>]

Anton Mikanovich, Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 13:53:
> Subject: [PATCH v6 19/21] RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG: Add tips after bitbake
> version update
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>
> ---
>  RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md b/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
> index 1b8efa59..a6309765 100644
> --- a/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
> +++ b/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
> @@ -441,3 +441,25 @@ exist, empty variables are forwarded.
> 
>  **Note about reproducability**: the forwarded variables must not have any
> influence on the generated package.
>  This mechanism must also not be used to inject build configurations. For
> these cases, templates should be used.
> +
> +### Override syntax changes
> +
> +Using `_` in override syntax was changed to `:`.
> +All the recipes should be changed manually or with helper script:
> +
> +```
> +$ python3 scripts/contrib/convert-overrides.py <layer_path>
> +```
> +
> +### Network usage tasks should be marked
> +
> +With the new bitbake version all the tasks need network access should be
> marked
> +with the flag [network] = '1'.
> +

Two more things that needed changing in one of our layers:

* SRCREV must always be a hash. Tag/branch names, including the pattern
  `SRCREV = "v${PV}"`, are no longer allowed.

* In SRC_URI, the branch name must be set explicitly ("master" is no longer the default).

Adriaan

> +### Sstate artifacts are now packed with ZStandard
> +
> +Share State cache compression was moved from Gzip to ZStandard (zstd) in
> +Bitbake 2.0 for better performance. It also requires isar-sstate script to
> be
> +migrated to zstd.
> +Mixing old Gzip-based and new ZStandatd-based sstate cache is not
> recommended
> +and should be avoid for correct compatibility.
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