[OE-core] [PATCH] devtool: Avoid failure for recipes with S == WORKDIR and no local files

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday, 30 August 2019 8:43:02 AM NZST Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> When extracting the sources for a recipe that has S == WORKDIR and no
> local files in the SRC_URI (which, e.g., can happen for a recipe with
> a URI that has the unpack=false attribute), the extraction fails with
> the following backtrace:
> 
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File ".../scripts/devtool", line 344, in <module>
>       ret = main()
>     File ".../scripts/devtool", line 331, in main
>       ret = args.func(args, config, basepath, workspace)
>     File ".../poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py", line 762, in
>     modify
>       initial_rev, _ = _extract_source(srctree, args.keep_temp,
>       args.branch, False, config, basepath, workspace,
>       args.fixed_setup, rd, tinfoil, no_overrides=args.no_overrides)
>     File ".../poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py", line 647, in
>     _extract_source
>       bb.process.run('git %s commit -a -m "Committing local file
>       symlinks\n\n%s"' % (' '.join(useroptions),
>       oe.patch.GitApplyTree.ignore_commit_prefix), cwd=srctree)
>     File ".../poky/bitbake/lib/bb/process.py", line 178, in run
>       raise ExecutionError(cmd, pipe.returncode, stdout, stderr)
>   bb.process.ExecutionError: Execution of 'git commit -a -m
>   "Committing local file symlinks
> 
>   %% ignore"' failed with exit code 1:
>   On branch devtool
>   nothing to commit, working tree clean
> 
> This is because no files were found in the oe-local-files directory
> and consequently no symbolic links were added using `git add`, but the
> `git commit` command was still executed.

Looks good to me - all oe-selftest tests pass as well. (Looks like maybe we 
are missing a test though, since this code has been in place for a while.)

Acked-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>


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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre