[OE-core] appears to be inconsistency re: base-files between oe-core and meta-angstrom

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 06:29:17AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   trying to build a "hardware-bringup-image" defined in angstrom layer
> and running into:
> 
> ERROR: QA Issue: Fixup Perms: Unable to correct directory link, target already exists: /var/log -> /var/volatile/log
> ERROR: QA Issue: Fixup Perms: Unable to correct directory link, target already exists: /var/run -> /run
> ERROR: QA Issue: Fixup Perms: Unable to correct directory link, target already exists: /var/tmp -> /var/volatile/tmp
> 
> this would *appear* to be because oe-core defines, in
> base-files_3.0.14.bb:
> 
> volatiles = "log tmp"
> ... snip ...
>         for d in ${volatiles}; do
>                 ln -sf volatile/$d ${D}${localstatedir}/$d
>         done
>         ln -snf ../run ${D}${localstatedir}/run
>         ln -snf ../run/lock ${D}${localstatedir}/lock
> 
> which seems to want to create /var/{run,log,tmp} as symlinks, but over
> in meta-angstrom, we have base-files_3.0.14.bbappend which seems to
> want to create them as actual directories instead:

Expectations from base-files .bbappend and FILESYSTEM_PERMS_TABLES need
to be consistent, is it possible that you're using .bbappend from
angstrom and not FILESYSTEM_PERMS_TABLES set by angstrom config?

conf/distro/include/angstrom-core-tweaks.inc:FILESYSTEM_PERMS_TABLES = "fs-perms-angstrom.txt"

> 
> dirs755 += "${localstatedir}/cache \
>             ${localstatedir}/run \
>             ${localstatedir}/log \
>             ${localstatedir}/lock \
>             ${localstatedir}/lock/subsys \
>             ${localstatedir}/tmp \
>             ${localstatedir}/volatile/tmp \
>             /run \
>            "
> 
> or am i misreading something?
> 
> rday
> 
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