1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/create_manifest3.py b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/create_manifest3.py
index fddb23cdc4..f7d4587030 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/create_manifest3.py
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/create_manifest3.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #
 #
 # This way we will create a new manifest from the data structure that was built during
-# this process, ont this new manifest each package will contain specifically only
+# this process, on this new manifest each package will contain specifically only
 # what it needs to run.
 #
 # There are some caveats which we try to deal with, such as repeated files on different
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 # Tha method to handle cached files does not work when a module includes a folder which
 # itself contains the pycache folder, gladly this is almost never the case.
 #
-# Author: Alejandro Enedino Hernandez Samaniego "aehs29" <aehs29@gmail.com>
+# Author: Alejandro Enedino Hernandez Samaniego "aehs29" <aehs29 at gmail dot com>
 
 
 import sys
@@ -78,9 +78,21 @@ def isCached(item):
     else:
         return False
 
+def prepend_comments(comments, json_manifest):
+    with open(json_manifest, 'r+') as manifest:
+        json_contents = manifest.read()
+        manifest.seek(0, 0)
+        manifest.write(comments + json_contents)
+
 # Read existing JSON manifest
 with open('python3-manifest.json') as manifest:
-    old_manifest = json.load(manifest, object_pairs_hook=collections.OrderedDict)
+    # The JSON format doesn't allow comments so we hack the call to keep the comments using a marker
+    manifest_str =  manifest.read()
+    json_start = manifest_str.find('# EOC') + 6 # EOC + \n
+    manifest.seek(0)
+    comments = manifest.read(json_start)
+    manifest_str = manifest.read()
+    old_manifest = json.loads(manifest_str, object_pairs_hook=collections.OrderedDict)
 
 #
 # First pass to get core-package functionality, because we base everything on the fact that core is actually working
@@ -402,6 +414,8 @@ with open('python3-manifest.json.new','w') as outfile:
     json.dump(new_manifest,outfile, indent=4)
     outfile.write('\n')
 
+prepend_comments(comments,'python3-manifest.json.new')
+
 if (repeated):
     error_msg = '\n\nERROR:\n'
     error_msg += 'The following files are repeated (contained in more than one package),\n'