[OE-core] Is this a bug? Installed-but-not-packaged warning for a file which is in a package

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 14:43 -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> FILES_${PN} = "fascinating"
> 
> do_install() {
> 	touch ${D}/fascinating
> }
> 
> At least in our local copy of oe-core, this results in:
> 
> 1. A package which contains a /fascinating file.
> 2. An installed-but-unpackaged warning for /fascinating.
> 
> This confused the heck out of me. I eventually figured it out: The "not
> in seen" test is not aware of the possibility of differing path names.
> In general, all path names in FILES_* are being written as absolute
> paths by convention; in the actual code, this is silently corrected by
> the addition of a leading period.
> 
> But an unqualified path works; it's treated as relative to the
> sysroot/image/whatever, and it has the expected behavior. But then we
> insert "fascinating" in seen, and check for "./fascinating" in the next
> phase.
> 
> Possible solution:
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/package.bbclass b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
> index b06cca5..9d50a61 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/package.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
> @@ -981,6 +981,8 @@ python populate_packages () {
>                  file.replace("//", "/")
>              if os.path.isabs(file):
>                  file = '.' + file
> +            if not file.startswith("./")
> +                fle = './' + file
>              if not os.path.islink(file):
>                  if os.path.isdir(file):
> 
> Before I send this as an actual patch and such: Is this behavior a bug?
> If it is a bug, is this the right fix, or should we do something else,
> like reject non-absolute paths?
> 
> Note that just adding a / to files that don't start with one doesn't
> work; there appear to be at least *some* non-absolute paths in some
> packages.

It is a bug and that would appear to be a reasonable fix or fix the
unshipped list construction so it handles items without a . correctly.
I'd take the above patch...

Cheers,

Richard