[OE-core] [PATCH] sstate: Add detail to shared area warning

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 00:11 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:00:53PM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 15:00 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
>> > > -        bb.warn("The recipe is trying to install files into a shared area when those files already exist. Those files are:\n   %s" % "\n   ".join(match))
>> > > +        bb.warn("The %s recipe is trying to install files into a shared area when those files already exist (please fix %s). Those files are:\n   %s" % (d.getVar('PN', True), d.getVar('FILE', True), "\n   ".join(match)))
>> >
>> > That seems potentially misleading: the file that needs fixing isn't
>> > necessarily the one that triggers this warning.  What would be ideal
>> > would be to have it output the names of all recipes that have tried to
>> > stage the files in question so that the user can make an informed
>> > decision about which one ought to be putting them there.
>>
>> Maybe something like master.list was before
>> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=603daf343ad3f18c8adb799e3625ae2a18d94f56
>> with added recipe name, but that doesn't detect files already
>
> We can list any sstate manifest files (tmp/sstate-control) also adding
> that file which may or may not have a listing of it. We might as well
> just grep those files and print matches.
>
> We are not going back to a master.list file, its a performance headache.

I had to do this manually recently, so this error would be very useful ;)

-M