[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] wic: improve error message

[Gary Thomas]

On 2017-03-30 10:37, Chen Qi wrote:
> When using `wic create mkefidisk -e core-image-minimal', the following
> error message appeared.
>
>   Please bake it with 'bitbake parted-native' and try again.
>
> However, following this command doesn't do any help. The same problem
> still appeared.
>
> The problem is that when we 'bitbake parted-native', it doesn't have
> anything to do with core-image-minimal. And the required tool 'parted'
> is not under core-image-minimal's recipe-sysroot-native directory.
>
> Improve the error message so that following it could get things done.

Why not just fix the wic-tools recipe directly and not push it off onto the user?

>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
> ---
>  scripts/lib/wic/utils/misc.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/utils/misc.py b/scripts/lib/wic/utils/misc.py
> index c941112..1b0ab3b 100644
> --- a/scripts/lib/wic/utils/misc.py
> +++ b/scripts/lib/wic/utils/misc.py
> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def exec_native_cmd(cmd_and_args, native_sysroot, catch=3, pseudo=""):
>                "was not found (see details above).\n\n" % prog
>          recipe = NATIVE_RECIPES.get(prog)
>          if recipe:
> -            msg += "Please bake it with 'bitbake %s-native' "\
> +            msg += "Please make sure wic-tools have %s-native in its DEPENDS, bake it with 'bitbake wic-tools' "\
>                     "and try again.\n" % recipe
>          else:
>              msg += "Wic failed to find a recipe to build native %s. Please "\
>


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