[bitbake-devel] [meta-ti] building for pandaboard fails fetching u-boot *way* into the build phase

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:34:47PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:24:20AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > >   i'm sure there's a trivial workaround/explanation for this, but i
> > > wanted to build the basic meta-ti based build for my panda ES, so i
> > > started with oe-core and added the meta-ti layer.  then, because of
> > > some license issues (and based on a quick google search), i added this
> > > to my local.conf:
> > >
> > >   BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc"
> > >
> > > at that point, after selecting "pandaboard" as the machine, i wanted
> > > to prefetch everything:
> > >
> > > $ bitbake -c fetchall core-image-minimal
> > >
> > > which used solely my pre-mirror directory so that didn't take long.
> > >
> > >   *then*, because i allegedly had fetched everything i needed for the
> > > build, i edited my site.conf file and added:
> > >
> > > BB_NO_NETWORK = "1"
> > >
> > > which, AIUI, should be perfectly safe since i had just done a
> > > fetchall.  not so:
> > >
> > > ERROR: Function failed: Network access disabled through BB_NO_NETWORK
> > > but access requested with command git clone --bare --mirror
> > > git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git
> > > /home/rpjday/y/builds/ti/panda/downloads/git2/www.denx.de.git.u-boot.git
> > > (for url None)
> > > ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> > > /home/rpjday/y/builds/ti/panda/tmp-eglibc/work/pandaboard-oe-linux-gnueabi/u-boot-2011.12-r8/temp/log.do_fetch.29635
> > >
> > > hmmmmmm ...
> > >
> > > $ bitbake -s | grep u-boot
> > > nativesdk-u-boot-mkimage                          :2011.06-r0
> > > u-boot                                            :2011.12-r8
> > > u-boot-fw-utils                                   :2011.06-r1
> > > u-boot-mkimage                                    :2011.06-r0
> > > u-boot-mkimage-native                             :2011.06-r0
> > > $
> > >
> > >   ok, now i'm confused.  the above suggests that the version of u-boot
> > > to be used here is 2011.12-r8, but that was never fetched, and it's
> > > only now toward the end of the build that the fetch is attempted.
> > >
> > >   can someone clarify what's happening here?  why did my "fetchall"
> > > operation not fetch everything the build was going to need?
> >
> > Is that because u-boot is not in a standard DEPENDS/RDEPENDS
> > dependency tree, but rather in EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS list? I'm copying
> > bitbake and oe-core lists, as I don't think it's meta-ti specific
> > issue - u-boot recipe looks fine.
> 
>   good question ... for which i don't know the answer.  to make sure
> this is reproducible, i blew everything away and started from scratch
> with a new panda build.  here's my bblayers.conf:
> 
>   but when i do a "fetchall", i don't get u-boot_2011.12.  only when i
> try to build a core-image-minimal does the build fail toward the end
> trying to fetch u-boot_2011.12.  here's the layering info:
> 
> i'm sure i'm just doing something silly, but i've never run into the
> situation where a "fetchall" doesn't actually fetch absolutely
> everything that's needed for the build.

Try adding CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL="u-boot" somewhere, like local.conf and 
if that fixes your usecase, it has to be a bug with bitbake forgetting to 
pre-fetch machine's specific EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS - file a bug then.

-- 
Denys