[OE-core] [oe-commits] Richard Purdie : sstate.bbclass: Detect overwriting files in sstate controlled directories

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 08:03 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> This previous addressed the wrong list - so again:
> 
> I think it started with this one: I often do play around with
> different kernel versions/sources to bisect when a bug was born. Doing
> so I now get wallpapers with
> 
> WARNING: The recipe is trying to install files into a shared area when
> those files already exist. Those files are:
>    /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/sysroots/overo/usr/src/kernel/Module.symvers
>    /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/sysroots/overo/usr/src/kernel/CREDITS
>    /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/sysroots/overo/usr/src/kernel/kernel-abiversion
>    /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/sysroots/overo/usr/src/kernel/Makefile
>    /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/sysroots/overo/usr/src/kernel/kernel-image-name
>    /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/sysroots/overo/usr/src/kernel/uImage
>    /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/sysroots/overo/usr/src/kernel/README
>    /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/sysroots/overo/usr/src/kernel/COPYING
>    /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/sysroots/overo/usr/src/kernel/REPORTING-BUGS
>    /home/Superandy/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/sysroots/overo/usr/src/kernel/System.map-3.5.0
> ...
> (log.do_populate_sysroot is 2.8 MB)
> 
> Would it cause huge effort to add a variable which is in scope of
> recipe avoiding this warning because it scrolls out all other
> interesting messages?

There was some misconfiguration of the whitelist, this should be a lot
less noisy now.

Cheers,

Richard