[OE-core] [PATCH 4/9] consolekit: fix sdk generation issues

[Cui, Dexuan]

Richard Purdie wrote on 2011-12-15:
> On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 20:19 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>> Currently sdk generation might fail with the following error:
>> | Collected errors:
>> |  * extract_archive: Cannot create symlink from ./var/log to
>> 'volatile/log': File exists.
>> ERROR: Function 'do_populate_sdk' failed
>> 
>> This happens as consolekit package will include both
>> /var/log/ConsoleKit and /var/volatile/log/ConsoleKit files:
>> lumag at fangorn:~/OE-scripts$ dpkg-deb -c
> build/tmp--eglibc/deploy/ipk/core2/consolekit_0.4.5-r7_core2.ipk  |
> grep var
>> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-12-07 22:12 ./var/ drwxr-xr-x
>> root/root         0 2011-12-07 22:12 ./var/log/ drwxr-xr-x root/root   
>>      0 2011-12-07 22:12 ./var/log/ConsoleKit/ lrwxrwxrwx root/root     
>>    0 2011-12-07 22:12 ./var/run -> volatile/run drwxr-xr-x root/root   
>>      0 2011-12-07 22:12 ./var/volatile/ drwxr-xr-x root/root         0
>> 2011-12-07 22:12 ./var/volatile/log/ drwxr-xr-x root/root         0
>> 2011-12-07 22:12 ./var/volatile/log/ConsoleKit/ drwxr-xr-x root/root   
>>      0 2011-12-07 22:12 ./var/volatile/run/ drwxr-xr-x root/root       
>>  0 2011-12-07 22:12 ./var/volatile/run/ConsoleKit/
>> 
>> Inclusion of both log directories causes this error. Drop the
>> /var/log/ConsoleKit in favour of /var/volatile/log
Hi Dmitry,
Could you please explain how and where the extract_archive error is caused?
Where is /var/log linked to /var/volatile/log?

Do you mean RP's patch "consolekit: Fix ${localstatedir} race" didn't fix the issue?
(I suspect so)
 
> This effectively reverts:
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=5608a748
> af2c754f60137ab7c3010ccce6bf9e40 so I think this fixes one problem at
> the expense of causing another. Koen: Any comments?

Thanks,
-- Dexuan