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

[Robert Yang]

On 09/04/2013 03:22 PM, Vali Cobelea wrote:
> 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.

I can't reproduce the error, but it is really a problem, I've added a patch
in the bugzilla, and will send it here sooner.

// Robert

>
> 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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