[oe] gitver problems

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Cliff Brake <cliff.brake at gmail.com> wrote:

> -vvvv provides a little more info ...
>
>
> NOTE: Running task 729 of 733 (ID: 8,
> /scratch/oe/oe-build/oe/openembedded.custom/recipes/autotools-demo/
> autotools-demo.bb,
> do_package_stage)
> ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
> ERROR: Build of
> /scratch/oe/oe-build/oe/openembedded.custom/recipes/autotools-demo/
> autotools-demo.bb
> do_package_stage failed
> NOTE: package autotools-demo-1.0-2-ga58ca94-r0: task do_package_stage:
> Started
> ERROR: Task 8
> (/scratch/oe/oe-build/oe/openembedded.custom/recipes/autotools-demo/
> autotools-demo.bb,
> do_package_stage) failed with 256
> ERROR: '/scratch/oe/oe-build/oe/openembedded.custom/recipes/autotools-demo/
> autotools-demo.bb'
> failed
> ERROR: Function staging_packager failed
> NOTE: Task failed: ('function staging_packager failed',
>
> '/scratch/oe/oe-build/oe/build/angstrom-2008.1/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/autotools-demo-1.0-2-ga58ca94-r0/temp/log.staging_packager.26542')
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>
> /scratch/oe/oe-build/oe/build/angstrom-2008.1/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/autotools-demo-1.0-2-ga58ca94-r0/temp/log.staging_packager.26542
> Log data follows:
> | *** Error: CONTROL/control is missing field Source
> | The Source field contain the URL's or filenames of the source code
> and any patches
> | used to build this package.  Either gnu-style tarballs or Debian
> source packages
> | are acceptable.  Relative filenames may be used if they are
> distributed in the same
> | directory as the .ipk file.
> |
> | ipkg-build: Please fix the above errors and try again.
> | ERROR: Function staging_packager failed
> NOTE: package autotools-demo-1.0-2-ga58ca94-r0: task do_package_stage:
> Failed
> ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
> ERROR: Build of
> /scratch/oe/oe-build/oe/openembedded.custom/recipes/autotools-demo/
> autotools-demo.bb
> do_package_stage failed
> ERROR: Task 8
> (/scratch/oe/oe-build/oe/openembedded.custom/recipes/autotools-demo/
> autotools-demo.bb,
> do_package_stage) failed with 256
> ERROR: '/scratch/oe/oe-build/oe/openembedded.custom/recipes/autotools-demo/
> autotools-demo.bb'
> failed
> ERROR: '/scratch/oe/oe-build/oe/openembedded.custom/recipes/autotools-demo/
> autotools-demo.bb'
> failed
>
> So we need a way to provide Source URL's for packaging ...


Last time I looked at that part of the packaging classes and SRC_URI, they
fell back to ${FILE} if SRC_URI was unset, which while not particularly
useful, seems a reasonable way to do it.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics