[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] bb/fetch2: broken functionality for entries like file://dir; subdir=foo in SRC_URI

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 20:34 +0200, Alexander Shashkevich wrote:
> For SRC_URI entries like file://dir1;subdir=foo1 and
> file://dir2/dir3;subdir=foo2/foo3
> subdirectories ${WORKDIR}/foo1 and ${WORKDIR}/foo2/foo3 are created,
> but dir1 and dir2/dir3 are
> only copied to ${WORKDIR}/dir1 and ${WORKDIR}/dir2/dir. Correct way:
> directories must be copied/unpacked
> into '${WORKDIR}/foo1/dir1' and '${WORKDIR}/foo2/foo3/dir2/dir'
> respectively.

Where we have cases like this, I'd ask that you add a test case to
lib/bb/tests/ which illustrates the problem and ensures we don't
regress in future. We've had far too many problems with corner cases
and the fetcher :(

I need to properly review the patch but wanted to mention this now.

Cheers,

Richard