Qcom Yocto Pre Pr Checks

Run meta-qcom's CI checks before a PR

Runs the same checks meta-qcom's CI runs, locally and in the same containerized environment, so a PR does not bounce on mechanical failures. This encodes the workflow from meta-qcom's AGENTS.md.

Prerequisites

• A meta-qcom checkout with your changes committed on a topic branch (based on master; the distro layer uses main).
• kas-container on PATH with a working Docker or Podman runtime.
• Shared cache dirs outside the repo — reuse DL_DIR/SSTATE_DIR/ KAS_WORK_DIR from the environment if set, otherwise export them first (see the qcom-yocto-build-image skill, step 1).
• Do not use sudo, and do not create or modify user groups as part of this workflow.

The checks

Run from the meta-qcom repo root, in this order:

1. yocto-patchreview — commit/patch hygiene (routine)

ci/kas-container-shell-helper.sh ci/yocto-patchreview.sh

Reviews the patches your branch adds (recipe patch metadata such as Upstream-Status, malformed patches, commit issues). Fix everything it flags; CI treats these as failures.

2. yocto-check-layer — layer compatibility (before opening/updating the PR)

ci/kas-container-shell-helper.sh ci/yocto-check-layer.sh

Verifies the layer still passes the Yocto Project compatibility checks (signature stability, layer isolation, appends behavior). This is the slowest check — run it once your branch is otherwise ready.

3. oe-selftest — layer selftests (routine)

ci/kas-container-shell-helper.sh ci/oe-selftest.sh

Auto-discovers the layer's tests under lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/. To run a subset while iterating:

kas-container shell ci/base.yml \
  --command "/repo/ci/oe-selftest.sh /repo /work <case>.<TestClass>"

4. Commit message review

Check every commit on the branch against meta-qcom's CONTRIBUTING.md:

• atomic — exactly one logical change per commit, tree functional after each one; no fixup commits within the series;
• subject in recipe-name: summary of the changes form;
• body explains the problem first, then the imperative actions, in prose;
• Signed-off-by present and matching the author identity from git config; Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION when an AI assistant helped.

git log --format='%h %s%n%b' origin/master..

Reporting

Summarize per check: PASS/FAIL, and for failures quote the failing check's actual output (patchreview findings, failing selftest names, the check-layer error) with the log path — do not paraphrase errors away. Fix findings by amending the commit that introduced them (rebase -i), not by appending fixup commits, then re-run the affected check.

Notes

• Routine loop while developing: patchreview + oe-selftest; check-layer once before opening/updating the PR.
• The helpers keep CI parity by running inside kas-container; resist running the underlying scripts on the bare host even when it seems faster.
• meta-qcom-distro carries the same ci/ helper scripts, so the same flow applies there (PRs target main).
• These checks do not build or boot an image; for changes with runtime impact, follow up with qcom-yocto-build-image and qcom-boot-validate.