[OE-core] possible issue with buildhistory?

[Khem Raj]

On 5/22/19 11:53 PM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> hi,
> 
> not sure if it's been discussed reported before. but i ended up in a
> situation where a package is "empty" (e.g. it's not created) even
> though "files-in-packages.txt" in its buildhistory folder shows it
> should contain a file.
> 
> I have a synthetic example:
> 
> $ cat buildhistory/packages/aarch64-linaro-linux/helloworld/latest
> PV = 1.0
> PR = r0
> DEPENDS = autoconf-native automake-native gnu-config-native
> libtool-cross libtool-native virtual/aarch64-linaro-linux-compilerlibs
> virtual/aarch64-linaro-linux-gcc virtual/libc
> PACKAGES = helloworld-src helloworld-dbg helloworld-staticdev
> helloworld-dev helloworld-doc helloworld-locale helloworld
> goodbyeworld
> LAYER = meta-rpb
> 
> then:
> 
> $ cat buildhistory/packages/aarch64-linaro-linux/helloworld/goodbyeworld/files-in-package.txt
> drwxr-xr-x root       root             4096 ./usr
> drwxr-xr-x root       root             4096 ./usr/bin
> -rwxr-xr-x root       root             6144 ./usr/bin/goodbyeworld
> 
> However goodbyeworld package does not exist, and /usr/bin/goodbyeworld
> is in the helloworld package:
> 
> $ dpkg -c tmp-rpb-glibc/deploy/ipk/aarch64/helloworld_1.0-r0_aarch64.ipk
> drwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2019-05-23 08:25 ./
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-05-23 08:25 ./usr/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-05-23 08:25 ./usr/bin/
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root      6144 2019-05-23 08:25 ./usr/bin/goodbyeworld
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root      6144 2019-05-23 08:25 ./usr/bin/helloworld
> 
> It is worth saying that the file should indeed be in helloworld
> package since there was a bug in my recipe! So buildhistory is wrong
> here.
> 
> The recipe is a simple one:
> 
> SRC_URI = "file://helloworld.c \
>    file://goodbyeworld.c \
>    file://Makefile.am \
>    file://configure.ac \
>    file://COPYING"
> S = "${WORKDIR}"
> inherit autotools
> PACKAGES += "goodbyeworld"
> FILES_goodbyeworld += "${bindir}/goodbyeworld"
> 
> Clearly the recipe has a bug, and if I do this instead:
> PACKAGES =+ "goodbyeworld"
> 
> /usr/bin/goodbyeworld ends up in the right package... however I think
> in the previous case, buildhistory should have shown
> /usb/bin/goodbyeworld in helloworld package, not goodbyeworld...
> 
> I was testing on warrior, but i can try to reproduce on master if needed..
> 

I think this could be happening since removing empty package is an 
optimization which is not considered by buildhistory. Its worth a bug 
report.

> thanks!
>