[bitbake-devel] git submodule fetcher regression

[Bonnans, Laurent]

Hello Stefan,

On 10/04/2018 06:08 PM, Stefan Agner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that 9c6b39adf978 ("fetch2/gitsm.py: Rework the git submodule fetcher") broke git submodules in some cases. My particular case is aktualizr from meta-updater (https://github.com/advancedtelematic/meta-updater). Fetching aktualizr reliably fails for me now:
>
> ERROR: aktualizr-1.0+gitAUTOINC+a94a15e31f-7 do_unpack: Fetcher failure: Submodule tests/tuf-test-vectors does not exist in /home/ags/oe/downloads/git2/github.com.advancedtelematic.aktualizr/modules/tests/tuf-test-vectors or
> /home/ags/oe/build-colibri-imx7/tmp-oe/work/armv7at2hf-neon-lmp-linux-gnueabi/aktualizr/1.0+gitAUTOINC+a94a15e31f-7/git/.git/modules/tests/tuf-test-vectors.
> ERROR: aktualizr-1.0+gitAUTOINC+a94a15e31f-7 do_unpack: Function failed: base_do_unpack
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/ags/oe/build-colibri-imx7/tmp-oe/work/armv7at2hf-neon-lmp-linux-gnueabi/aktualizr/1.0+gitAUTOINC+a94a15e31f-7/temp/log.do_unpack.35143
> ERROR: Task (/home/ags/oe/build-colibri-imx7/conf/../../layers/meta-updater/recipes-sota/aktualizr/aktualizr_git.bb:do_unpack) failed with exit code '1'
>
> Any idea what that could be?
>
> --
> Stefan

We also noticed the problem and supplied a fix to the bitbake-devel 
mailing list (actually, there were two separate issues in our case). The 
commits are currently sitting in master-next branches of bitbake and 
poky and should, in all likelihood, move to master soon.

Laurent