[OE-core] BB_NO_NETWORK = "1" causes fetch to fail for unnecessary u-boot parsing

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:08:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   not sure if this is expected behaviour, but i'm using the meta-ti
> layer to build a core-image-minimal for a am180x-evm.  i'm using
> "own-mirrors" to use my own premirrors directory and i've collected
> all of the necessary tarballs and actually completed the build, after
> which i make sure i have saved all of the tarballs so i don't need
> to download anything for a subsequent build.
> 
>   as a test, i totally delete my build and start over, but this time
> with
> 
>   BB_NO_NETWORK = "1"
> 
> which i assumed would still work.  instead, i almost immediately got
> this:
> 
> $ bitbake -c fetch core-image-minimal
> Pseudo is not present but is required, building this first before the
> main build
> ERROR: ExpansionError during parsing
> /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/meta-ti/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot_2013.01.bb:
> Failure expanding variable SRCPV, expression was
> ${@bb.fetch2.get_srcrev(d)} which triggered exception NetworkAccess:
> Network access disabled through BB_NO_NETWORK but access requested
> with command git ls-remote
> git://arago-project.org/git/projects/u-boot-keystone.git
> DEV.MCSDK-03.00.00.06 (for url None)
> ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1

It's using tag instead of hash in SRCREV, so it behaves the same as
SRC_URI = "git://.*;tag=foo" and tries to access upstream repo to
convert tag name to hash (or check if it's still the same hash as when
you've built it last time.

Cheers,

>   that's not even the version of u-boot that's going to be used, as
> "bitbake -s" shows:
> 
> u-boot  :2009.11+r68+gitr5f16b8551b125f16cd8d58f278cb25b94272fd9f-r68
> 
> so i'm guessing that what's happening here is that even though the
> u-boot recipe file u-boot_2013.01.bb will contribute nothing to this
> build, its parsing alone requires network access, which makes the
> usage of BB_NO_NETWORK = "1" somewhat useless in this context.
> 
>   am i misreading something?  thoughts?
> 
> rday
> 
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