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

[Vali Cobelea]

Hi,

You can try even without the patch and see if you reproduce the issue.
We do have the symlinks recursivity problem as I said but on random 
packages, "udev" was the first we noticed.

Best regards,
Valentin

On 09/04/2013 03:57 AM, Robert Yang wrote:
>
> Hi Valentin,
>
> It hangs up when build acl (which means that I can reproduce the
> problem as you have told), but it worked well without this patch,
> maybe python version related, I will do more investigation.
>
> // Robert
>
> On 09/03/2013 08:53 PM, Vali Cobelea wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What seems to be the issue ?
>>
>> BR,
>> Valentin
>>
>>
>> On 09/03/2013 03:51 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>>
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