[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 1/1] bitbake: Disable pseudo in runfetchcmd()

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 16:03 +0100, Olof Johansson wrote:
>I work with Peter, and I'm seeing this issue as well. Sorry for
> the delay in response.
> 
> > I'm more than a little concerned about why pseudo is active during
> > do_patch. It shouldn't be. Are you doing anything different with pseudo
> > in your build?
> 
> No, not as far as I know. This is the output I'm seeing
> currently, where I temporarily replaced "git" with a small shell
> script that runs whoami and exits with failure (normally, it
> would just hang at this point) (somewhat trimmed for brevity):
> 
> 
> ....
> DEBUG: Starting bitbake-worker
> DEBUG: Using cache in '/oe/master/build/cache/bb_codeparser.dat'
> ERROR: Failure expanding variable do_patch: ExpansionError: Failure expanding variable do_patch, expression was         cd /oe/master/build/tmp/work/p3367-poky-linux/linux-porky/3.10+axis12-r4.1.1/linux
>         export KMETA=${KMETA}
> 
>         # if kernel tools are available in-tree, they are preferred
>         # and are placed on the path before any external tools. Unless
>         # the external tools flag is set, in that case we do nothing.
>         if [ -f "/oe/master/build/tmp/work/p3367-poky-linux/linux-porky/3.10+axis12-r4.1.1/linux/scripts/util/configme" ]; then
>                 if [ -z "${EXTERNAL_KERNEL_TOOLS}" ]; then
>                         PATH=/oe/master/build/tmp/work/p3367-poky-linux/linux-porky/3.10+axis12-r4.1.1/linux/scripts/util:/oe/master/scripts:/oe/master/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/mipsel-nf-poky-linux:/oe/master/build/tmp/sysroots/p3367/usr/bin/crossscripts:/oe/master/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/sbin:/oe/master/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin:/oe/master/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/sbin:/oe/master/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/bin:/oe/master/scripts:/oe/master/bitbake/bin:/home/olofjn/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/var/cfengine/bin:/usr/local/mipsisa32r2el/r23/bin
>                 fi
>         fi
> 
>         machine_branch="${@ get_machine_branch(d, "master" )}"
> 
>         # ...
>         # trimmed down output
>         # ...
>  which triggered exception FetchError: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 1, output:
> + whoami
> + : whoami = root
> + id
> + : id = uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
> + exit 1
> 
> ERROR: Task 100 (/oe/master/meta-porky/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-porky_3.10.bb, do_package_write_rpm) failed with exit code '1'
> 
> 
> Note that bitbake complains about do_patch, but the executed task
> is actually do_package_write_rpm. I'm not sure what this means.
> 
> Any ideas?

The log helps immensely since it shows its "Failure expanding variable
do_patch" so its not running do_patch, it is trying to expand the
variable for some reason when writing the rpm in do_package_write_rpm. 

Are you generating some kind of srpm differently from the normal
usecases?

Cheers,

Richard