[OE-core] bug with dpkg-native and sstate-cache mirrors

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 11:31 -0800, Anders Oleson wrote:
> Does this sound like I'm on the right track or like something that
> could be included? I'd like to fix this so that it doesn't sneak up
> on someone else.
> 
> I'm willing to take a hack at it and test it in the scenario where
> this bit us. It would involve steps:
> 1. develop a patch to dpkg to add the option
> 2. develop a patch for OE to change the configure for dpkg-native
> 3. a patch for OE to pass --configdir to dpkg in all the right
> places.
> I could use help to insure I find them all.

This does sound like a genuine bug and something we need to fix. You do
sound like you're on the right track with it. Adding a workaround patch
to dpkg-native only would be one way to move forward but fixing it
properly as you describe is much more desirable if upstream will take
such a patch. I appreciate you taking the time to do that!

The lack of response isn't lack of interest but partly the holidays and
partly that you're on the right check so replies would mainly be "yes,
sounds good" which people tend not to post against everything they
agree with.

Cheers,

Richard