[OE-core] [PATCH] image_types.bbclass: fix link creation failure if the target already exists

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 13:29 +0100, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 21:33 +0100, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> >> | ln: failed to create symbolic link `beagleboard/systemd-image-beagleboard.tar.bz2': File exists
> >> NOTE: package systemd-image-1.0-r0: task do_rootfs: Failed
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz>
> >> ---
> >>  meta/classes/image_types.bbclass |    2 +-
> >>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > Is this still necessary after the recent image_types.bbclass fixes?
> >
> I pulled ~3-4 hours ago and the error persists. I don't know if it is
> important for this problem but I am using opkg and get:
> 
> | ln: failed to create symbolic link
> `/home/andreas/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/deploy/images/overo/xfce-base-image-overo.tar.bz2':
> File exists
> NOTE: package xfce-base-image-1.0-r0: task do_rootfs: Failed

Could you see what the IMAGE_FSTYPES variable contains please?

(bitbake xfce-base-image -e | grep ^IMAGE_FSTYPES)

The code shouldn't be trying to create this symlink more than once so
whilst I understand the intent of the patch adding -f, I'd like to
understand the root cause of the problem to ensure there isn't some
other issue.

Cheers,

Richard