Is it possible to add an interactive mode to kas-container and see the building logs as normally Bitbake shows?

[jetm]

Hi,

kas-container is very useful for CI, but it's useful as well for a local environment where you want to build in a Linux OS that is incompatible with Yocto.

When building locally with kas-container I see the NOTE: Unable to use interactive mode for this terminal, using fallback message from Bitbake. I understand this is the default way for the CI environment, but it would be nice to change it with some option when using kas-container from your PC.

My guess is it has to do with how the container is used. I was thinking like passing down the -i flag, like kas-container --runtime-args '-i' build but that doesn't work

[fmoessbauer]

Hi @jetm , if you start the kas container from a terminal you should get an interactive terminal (showing the bitbake progress bars). If you run kas-container shell, you even get a fully interactive shell to do things in the yocto environment.

• Which container runtime are you using?
• On what OS?
• Which shell?

Example output:

[jetm]

Hi @fmoessbauer,

With kas-container shell is the same result, and it shows the same NOTE message about interactive mode.

OK, it works by default; maybe it has to do with the container runtime, as I am using podman.

• Container runtime: podman
• OS: Arch Linux
• Shell: zsh
• kas version: 4.7

[michaeladler]

Hi @jetm,

I have the same setup as you but I don't get the warning about a non-interactive terminal. Which terminal emulator are you using and (perhaps more interestingly), how did you install it? What's the value of your TERM env variable?

[jetm]

Hi @michaeladler,

I installed kas from AUR package. Locally, I modified the PKGBUILD to install kas 4.7.

Terminal: kitty 0.39.1 created by Kovid Goyal
TERM: xterm-kitty