[OE-core] [opkg-utils PATCH] opkg-make-index: use ctime instead of mtime

[richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]

On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 17:38 +0200, Stefan Agner wrote:
> From: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner at toradex.com>
> 
> When using sstate, two parallel builds can produce two packages
> with the same mtime but different checksums. When later one of
> those two builds fetches the others ipk, the package index does
> not get udpated properly (since mtime matches). This ends up with
> messages such as:
>   Downloading file:/../tmp/work/../image/...ipk.
>   Removing corrupt package file
> /../sysroot/../var/cache/opkg/volatile/...ipk
> 
> However, in that case, ctime is different. Use ctime instead of
> mtime to prevent failures like this.
> 
> Suggested-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner at toradex.com>

Acked-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>

(I've been following this problem and this makes sense to me)

> ---
> This addresses the issue discussed here:
> 
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2018-October/156348.html
> 
>  opkg-make-index | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/opkg-make-index b/opkg-make-index
> index 3227fc0..db7bf64 100755
> --- a/opkg-make-index
> +++ b/opkg-make-index
> @@ -115,12 +115,12 @@ for abspath in files:
>       pkg = None
>       fnameStat = os.stat(abspath)
>       if filename in old_pkg_hash:
> -          if filename in pkgsStamps and int(fnameStat.st_mtime) ==
> pkgsStamps[filename]:
> +          if filename in pkgsStamps and int(fnameStat.st_ctime) ==
> pkgsStamps[filename]:
>              if (verbose):
>                 sys.stderr.write("Found %s in Packages\n" %
> (filename,))
>              pkg = old_pkg_hash[filename]
>            else:
> -               sys.stderr.write("Found %s in Packages, but mtime
> differs - re-reading\n" % (filename,))
> +               sys.stderr.write("Found %s in Packages, but ctime
> differs - re-reading\n" % (filename,))
>  
>       if not pkg:
>            if (verbose):
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ for abspath in files:
>       else:
>            old_filename = ""
>       s = packages.add_package(pkg, opt_a)
> -     pkgsStamps[filename] = fnameStat.st_mtime
> +     pkgsStamps[filename] = fnameStat.st_ctime
>       if s == 0:
>            if old_filename:
>                 # old package was displaced by newer