[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] archiver.bbclass: exclude recursive symlink for diff

[Robert Yang]

Please hold this patch for a while, seems that it didn't fix all of the things.

// Robert

On 09/03/2013 07:51 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
> There would be errors if there are recursive symlinks in the ${S}:
>
> diff: /xxx/udev/182-r8/udev-182/test/sys/block/loop0/bdi/subsystem/0:16/subsystem: recursive directory loop
>
> We can check the recursive symlink and save it to the exclude file, then
> the diff's --exclude-from argument can exclude them
>
> [YOCTO #4986]
>
> Signed-off-by: Valentin Cobelea <valentin.cobelea at enea.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com>
> ---
>   meta/classes/archiver.bbclass |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/archiver.bbclass b/meta/classes/archiver.bbclass
> index 66efe7d..f5ad562 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/archiver.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/archiver.bbclass
> @@ -493,6 +493,24 @@ def create_diff_gz(d):
>       for i in exclude_from:
>           f.write(i)
>           f.write("\n")
> +
> +    symlinks = []
> +    directories = []
> +
> +    # Add symlink and root dir to the separated lists for checking whether
> +    # there is recursive symlink
> +    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(os.getcwd(), followlinks=True):
> +        if os.path.islink(root):
> +            symlinks.append(root)
> +        elif os.path.isdir(root):
> +            directories.append(root)
> +
> +    # Check if there is a recursive symlink to a dir
> +    for sym in symlinks:
> +        if sym in directories:
> +            # write the 'sym' in the 'exclude-from' file
> +            f.write(os.path.basename(sym))
> +
>       f.close()
>
>       s=d.getVar('S', True)
>