Truncate descriptions of iocEnvVars to 40 characters if needed

[jwlodek]

Resolves #75.

I tested it with an IOC with the latest release of base, and I was now able to load iocAdminSoft.db.

[jwlodek]

I am not sure I understand the CI failures. They seem to be caused by a template I did not modify, while the one I did seems to be being generated fine. I also cannot seem to reproduce locally.

[simon-ess]

Hm. I get the same when I run locally against the latest EPICS base. I believe it is due to this change: epics-base/epics-base#766

If I run locally after reverting it, then the build does pass. It's a bit unfortunate that the following errors do show up in the log regardless:

"/Users/simonrose/git/epics/epics-base/bin/darwin-aarch64/msi" -D    -I. -I.. -I../O.Common -I../../../db -I/Users/simonrose/git/epics/epics-base/db -o ../O.Common/iocAdminRTEMS.db -S../iocAdminRTEMS.substitutions  > iocAdminRTEMS.db.d.stdout
ERROR msi: Can't open file 'iocAdminScanMon.db'
input: '}
' at 
"/Users/simonrose/git/epics/epics-base/bin/darwin-aarch64/msi" -D    -I. -I.. -I../O.Common -I../../../db -I/Users/simonrose/git/epics/epics-base/db -o ../O.Common/iocAdminSoft.db -S../iocAdminSoft.substitutions  > iocAdminSoft.db.d.stdout
ERROR msi: Can't open file 'iocAdminScanMon.db'
input: '}
' at 
"/Users/simonrose/git/epics/epics-base/bin/darwin-aarch64/msi" -D    -I. -I.. -I../O.Common -I../../../db -I/Users/simonrose/git/epics/epics-base/db -o ../O.Common/iocAdminVxWorks.db -S../iocAdminVxWorks.substitutions  > iocAdminVxWorks.db.d.stdout
ERROR msi: Can't open file 'iocAdminScanMon.db'
input: '}
' at

However the build does recover from that issue when that one PR reverted. That said, it probably means I should actually clean up those errors...

For now if you build against 7.0.10 you will be fine. I will create an issue to clean this up.

[simon-ess]

@jwlodek - please feel free to rebase and run the checks again.

[simon-ess]

This looks good to me, but there are now merge conflicts...

[jwlodek]

I don't seem to see any merge conflicts, are you sure? I confirmed that my local branch is up to date with this PR as well as with the master branch.

jwlodek@alma10:~/Workspace/iocStats$ git branch
  convert-ioc-release-to-db-to-py3
  master
* truncate-epics-base-config-pvs
jwlodek@alma10:~/Workspace/iocStats$ git pull upstream master
From https://github.com/epics-modules/iocStats
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up to date.
jwlodek@alma10:~/Workspace/iocStats$ git remote -v
origin	https://github.com/jwlodek/iocStats.git (fetch)
origin	https://github.com/jwlodek/iocStats.git (push)
upstream	https://github.com/epics-modules/iocStats.git (fetch)
upstream	https://github.com/epics-modules/iocStats.git (push)
jwlodek@alma10:~/Workspace/iocStats$ git push
Everything up-to-date

[simon-ess]

Note that rebase and merge do not work.

I think that this can be cleaned up with a bit of a cleanup to the git history. If you are not comfortable with doing this I can do it.

[jwlodek]

Ok, I see. I think I've cleaned up the history now. Could you confirm that rebase/merge works now on your end?