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cover make DESCRIPTION support newline

The following changes since commit 590010a6525b0e1bc1de73e794764e23404591df:

core-image-weston: add weston-examples to the image (2013-06-18 17:33:17 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib robert/newline
http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=robert/newline

Robert Yang (3):
package_rpm.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline package_ipk.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline package_deb.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

 meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass |    5 +++--
 meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass |    5 +++--
 meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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#1 lore raw

PATCH 1/3 package_rpm.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

The recipe's DESCRIPTION is wrapped automatically by textwrap, make it support newline ("\n") to let the user can wrap it manually, e.g.:

DESCRIPTION = "Foo1\nFoo2"

In the past, it would be:
Foo1\nFoo2

Now:
Foo1
Foo2

[YOCTO #4348]

Signed-off-by Robert Yang <[email protected]>
---
 meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass +14 -5
index c654cdb..01bfaf1 100644
@@ -534,7 +534,6 @@ def write_rpm_perfiledata(srcname, d):
 
 
 python write_specfile () {
-    import textwrap
     import oe.packagedata
 
     # append information for logs and patches to %prep

@@ -668,6 +667,18 @@ python write_specfile () {
                 deps.append(depends)
         return " ".join(deps)
 
+    def append_description(spec_preamble, text):
+        """
+        Add the description to the spec file, respect to the rules:
+        - split the DESCRIPTION into multi-lines by newline (\n), and
+        - the text width is 75.
+        """
+        import textwrap
+        dedent_text = textwrap.dedent(text).strip()
+        # Bitbake saves "\n" as "\\n"
+        for t in dedent_text.split('\\n'):
+            spec_preamble.append('%s' % textwrap.fill(t.strip(), width=75))
+
     packages = d.getVar('PACKAGES', True)
     if not packages or packages == '':
         bb.debug(1, "No packages; nothing to do")

@@ -868,8 +879,7 @@ python write_specfile () {
         spec_preamble_bottom.append('')
 
         spec_preamble_bottom.append('%%description -n %s' % splitname)
-        dedent_text = textwrap.dedent(splitdescription).strip()
-        spec_preamble_bottom.append('%s' % textwrap.fill(dedent_text, width=75))
+        append_description(spec_preamble_bottom, splitdescription)
 
         spec_preamble_bottom.append('')
 

@@ -975,8 +985,7 @@ python write_specfile () {
     spec_preamble_top.append('')
 
     spec_preamble_top.append('%description')
-    dedent_text = textwrap.dedent(srcdescription).strip()
-    spec_preamble_top.append('%s' % textwrap.fill(dedent_text, width=75))
+    append_description(spec_preamble_top, srcdescription)
 
     spec_preamble_top.append('')
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#2 lore raw

PATCH 2/3 package_ipk.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

In reply to Robert Yang

The recipe's DESCRIPTION is wrapped automatically by textwrap, make it support newline ("\n") to let the user can wrap it manually, e.g.:

DESCRIPTION = "Foo1\nFoo2"

In the past, it would be:
Foo1\nFoo2

Now:
Foo1
Foo2

[YOCTO #4348]

Signed-off-by Robert Yang <[email protected]>
---
 meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass +3 -2
index 55628e4..e67f641 100644
@@ -304,10 +304,11 @@ python do_package_ipk () {
                 # Special behavior for description...
                 if 'DESCRIPTION' in fs:
                     summary = localdata.getVar('SUMMARY', True) or localdata.getVar('DESCRIPTION', True) or "."
+                    ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % summary)
                     description = localdata.getVar('DESCRIPTION', True) or "."
                     description = textwrap.dedent(description).strip()
-                    ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % summary)
-                    ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(description, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
+                    for t in description.split('\\n'):
+                        ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(t, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
                 else:
                     ctrlfile.write(c % tuple(pullData(fs, localdata)))
         except KeyError:
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Re: [PATCH 2/3] package_ipk.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

Quoted 25 lines · Robert Yang

The recipe's DESCRIPTION is wrapped automatically by textwrap, make it support newline ("\n") to let the user can wrap it manually, e.g.:

DESCRIPTION = "Foo1\nFoo2"

In the past, it would be:
Foo1\nFoo2

Now:
Foo1
Foo2

[YOCTO #4348]

Signed-off-by Robert Yang <[email protected]>
---
 meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass +0 -0
index 55628e4..e67f641 100644
@@ -304,10 +304,11 @@ python do_package_ipk () {
                 # Special behavior for description...

meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass python do_package_ipk () { · line 312

Quoted 10 lines
meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass +3 -2
                 if 'DESCRIPTION' in fs:
                     summary = localdata.getVar('SUMMARY', True) or localdata.getVar('DESCRIPTION', True) or "."
+                    ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % summary)
                     description = localdata.getVar('DESCRIPTION', True) or "."
                     description = textwrap.dedent(description).strip()
-                    ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % summary)
-                    ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(description, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
+                    for t in description.split('\\n'):
+                        ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(t, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
                 else:

Isn't DESCRIPTION supposed to be short oneline and longer multiline only in SUMMARY?

is opkg-utils (package-index) working with this? Newlines in SUMMARY were causing incorrect parsing and not using cache IIRC, not sure if the fix for that was generic enough to cover DESCRIPTION.

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Re: [PATCH 2/3] package_ipk.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

Quoted 31 lines · Martin Jansa
Quoted 30 lines · Robert Yang

The recipe's DESCRIPTION is wrapped automatically by textwrap, make it support newline ("\n") to let the user can wrap it manually, e.g.:

DESCRIPTION = "Foo1\nFoo2"

In the past, it would be:
Foo1\nFoo2

Now:
Foo1
Foo2

[YOCTO #4348]

Signed-off-by Robert Yang <[email protected]>
---
 meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass +1 -0
index 55628e4..e67f641 100644
@@ -304,10 +304,11 @@ python do_package_ipk () {
                 # Special behavior for description...
                 if 'DESCRIPTION' in fs:
                     summary = localdata.getVar('SUMMARY', True) or localdata.getVar('DESCRIPTION', True) or "."
+                    ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % summary)
                     description = localdata.getVar('DESCRIPTION', True) or "."
                     description = textwrap.dedent(description).strip()
Quoted 8 lines

meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass python do_package_ipk () { · line 312

Quoted 5 lines
meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass +2 -2
-                    ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % summary)
-                    ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(description, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
+                    for t in description.split('\\n'):
+                        ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(t, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
                 else:

Isn't DESCRIPTION supposed to be short oneline and longer multiline only in SUMMARY?

No, SUMMARY is meant to be the short oneline and DESCRIPTION is the multiline one afaik...

Cheers,

Richard

Quoted 7 lines

is opkg-utils (package-index) working with this? Newlines in SUMMARY were causing incorrect parsing and not using cache IIRC, not sure if the fix for that was generic enough to cover DESCRIPTION.
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Re: [PATCH 2/3] package_ipk.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

In reply to Martin Jansa
Quoted 31 lines · Martin Jansa
Quoted 30 lines · Robert Yang

The recipe's DESCRIPTION is wrapped automatically by textwrap, make it support newline ("\n") to let the user can wrap it manually, e.g.:

DESCRIPTION = "Foo1\nFoo2"

In the past, it would be:
Foo1\nFoo2

Now:
Foo1
Foo2

[YOCTO #4348]

Signed-off-by Robert Yang <[email protected]>
---
 meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass +1 -0
index 55628e4..e67f641 100644
@@ -304,10 +304,11 @@ python do_package_ipk () {
                 # Special behavior for description...
                 if 'DESCRIPTION' in fs:
                     summary = localdata.getVar('SUMMARY', True) or localdata.getVar('DESCRIPTION', True) or "."
+                    ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % summary)
                     description = localdata.getVar('DESCRIPTION', True) or "."
                     description = textwrap.dedent(description).strip()
Quoted 8 lines

meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass python do_package_ipk () { · line 312

Quoted 5 lines
meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass +2 -2
-                    ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % summary)
-                    ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(description, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
+                    for t in description.split('\\n'):
+                        ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(t, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
                 else:

Isn't DESCRIPTION supposed to be short oneline and longer multiline only in SUMMARY?

No, the reverse. SUMMARY is (as the name suggests, and as the existing code implements) meant to be the short synopsis and DESCRIPTION is the longer text.

Quoted 3 lines

is opkg-utils (package-index) working with this? Newlines in SUMMARY were causing incorrect parsing and not using cache IIRC, not sure if the fix for that was generic enough to cover DESCRIPTION.

Newlines in SUMMARY would indeed break opkg-utils because the text after the line break wouldn't be correctly indented. It wouldn't be a bad thing for package_ipk to check for that, but this shouldn't be an issue with the patch above since it seems to be explicitly indenting all lines of the long description.

I'm not entirely thrilled with Robert's patch because it seems rather ugly to have embedded "\n" sequences in the recipe DESCRIPTION fields, and also because package_ipk isn't the only consumer of that variable and it isn't entirely obvious that all the other users will know what to do. But, absent a way to express string literals with embedded newlines in bitbake, perhaps this is indeed the best compromise.

p.

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Re: [PATCH 2/3] package_ipk.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

In reply to Robert Yang

Robert Yang <[email protected]>

meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass python do_package_ipk () { · line 311

Quoted 7 lines · writes:

The recipe's DESCRIPTION is wrapped automatically by textwrap, make it support newline ("\n") to let the user can wrap it manually, e.g.:

meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass +2 -2
-                    ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % summary)
-                    ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(description, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
+                    for t in description.split('\\n'):
+                        ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(t, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))

When user wrapped lines manually, why is textwrap.fill() called on the lines again? E.g. when user wrapped manually at 78 columns, this will create long - short - long - short lines (in german, why call this effect "Kammquoting" (comb quoting)) .

I suggest to avoid textwrap.fill() when text contains '\n'.

Enrico

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#7 lore raw

Re: [PATCH 2/3] package_ipk.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

Sorry, it's only replied to Enrico, now, reply to the list ...

Quoted 13 lines · Enrico Scholz

Robert Yang <[email protected]>

meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass python do_package_ipk () { · line 311

Quoted 7 lines · writes:

The recipe's DESCRIPTION is wrapped automatically by textwrap, make it support newline ("\n") to let the user can wrap it manually, e.g.:

meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass +2 -2
-                    ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % summary)
-                    ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(description, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
+                    for t in description.split('\\n'):
+                        ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % textwrap.fill(t, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' '))
Quoted 7 lines

When user wrapped lines manually, why is textwrap.fill() called on the lines again? E.g. when user wrapped manually at 78 columns, this will create long - short - long - short lines (in german, why call this effect "Kammquoting" (comb quoting)) .

I suggest to avoid textwrap.fill() when text contains '\n'.

Because I think that the "\n" is mainly used for splitting paragraph, so the auto wrap is still useful when there is a "\n", e.g.:

DESCRIPTION = "FOO \n<Too many characters>"

The ouput is:
FOO
<74 characters>
<74 characters>
[snip]

I think that this is better than:
FOO
<Too many characters>

// Robert

Quoted 6 lines

Enrico

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PATCH 3/3 package_deb.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

In reply to Robert Yang

The recipe's DESCRIPTION is wrapped automatically by textwrap, make it support newline ("\n") to let the user can wrap it manually, e.g.:

DESCRIPTION = "Foo1\nFoo2"

In the past, it would be:
Foo1\nFoo2

Now:
Foo1
Foo2

[YOCTO #4348]

Signed-off-by Robert Yang <[email protected]>
---
 meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass +3 -2
index 949432e..74b7d25 100644
@@ -279,10 +279,11 @@ python do_package_deb () {
                 # Special behavior for description...
                 if 'DESCRIPTION' in fs:
                      summary = localdata.getVar('SUMMARY', True) or localdata.getVar('DESCRIPTION', True) or "."
+                     ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % unicode(summary))
                      description = localdata.getVar('DESCRIPTION', True) or "."
                      description = textwrap.dedent(description).strip()
-                     ctrlfile.write('Description: %s\n' % unicode(summary))
-                     ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % unicode(textwrap.fill(description, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' ')))
+                     for t in description.split('\\n'):
+                         ctrlfile.write('%s\n' % unicode(textwrap.fill(t, width=74, initial_indent=' ', subsequent_indent=' ')))
                 else:
                      ctrlfile.write(unicode(c % tuple(pullData(fs, localdata))))
         except KeyError:
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In reply to Robert Yang

Ping for this one.

// Robert

Quoted 19 lines · Robert Yang

The following changes since commit 590010a6525b0e1bc1de73e794764e23404591df:

   core-image-weston: add weston-examples to the image (2013-06-18 17:33:17 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib robert/newline
http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=robert/newline

Robert Yang (3):
package_rpm.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline package_ipk.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline package_deb.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

  meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass |    5 +++--
  meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass |    5 +++--
  meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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Quoted 3 lines · Robert Yang

Ping for this one.

Robert,

There were some comments on your patch set and I think an issue with the ipk one.

Sau!

Quoted 30 lines

// Robert

Quoted 16 lines · Robert Yang

The following changes since commit
590010a6525b0e1bc1de73e794764e23404591df:

core-image-weston: add weston-examples to the image (2013-06-18
17:33:17 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib robert/newline
http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=robert/newline

Robert Yang (3):
package_rpm.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline package_ipk.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline package_deb.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

Quoted 5 lines
  meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass |    5 +++--
  meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass |    5 +++--
  meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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Quoted 8 lines · Saul Wold
Quoted 3 lines · Robert Yang

Ping for this one.

Robert,

There were some comments on your patch set and I think an issue with the ipk one.

Hi Saul,

I think that you meant Martin's comment on the ipk one, Phil had explained to him, and it worked well with the opkg-utils.

// Robert

Quoted 34 lines

Sau!

Quoted 30 lines

// Robert

Quoted 16 lines · Robert Yang

The following changes since commit
590010a6525b0e1bc1de73e794764e23404591df:

core-image-weston: add weston-examples to the image (2013-06-18
17:33:17 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib robert/newline
http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=robert/newline

Robert Yang (3):
package_rpm.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline package_ipk.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline package_deb.bbclass: make DESCRIPTION support newline

Quoted 5 lines
  meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass |    5 +++--
  meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass |    5 +++--
  meta/classes/package_rpm.bbclass |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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Quoted 9 lines · Robert Yang
Quoted 6 lines · Saul Wold
Quoted 3 lines · Robert Yang

Ping for this one.

Robert,

Quoted 7 lines
Quoted 2 lines

There were some comments on your patch set and I think an issue with the ipk one.

Hi Saul,

I think that you meant Martin's comment on the ipk one, Phil had explained to him, and it worked well with the opkg-utils.

I've confused DESCRIPTION and SUMMARY, but I was talking about this change:
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/opkg-utils/commit/?id=7f0a7976c29b34feaf4f6b00f0a63626614d1c7d

And longer description here:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2012-March/007851.html

So please make sure that your change doesn't break it, but with this applied it shouldn't.

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Quoted 22 lines · Martin Jansa
Quoted 9 lines · Robert Yang
Quoted 6 lines · Saul Wold
Quoted 3 lines · Robert Yang

Ping for this one.

Robert,

Quoted 7 lines
Quoted 2 lines

There were some comments on your patch set and I think an issue with the ipk one.

Hi Saul,

I think that you meant Martin's comment on the ipk one, Phil had explained to him, and it worked well with the opkg-utils.

I've confused DESCRIPTION and SUMMARY, but I was talking about this change:
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/opkg-utils/commit/?id=7f0a7976c29b34feaf4f6b00f0a63626614d1c7d

Quoted 6 lines

And longer description here:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2012-March/007851.html

So please make sure that your change doesn't break it, but with this applied it shouldn't.

Yes, I had taken the patch, and it doesn't break the opkg-utils.

// Robert