[oe] [PATCH] bitbake: lib/bb/fetch/hg: fix fetching from a mercurial repository

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/9/6 Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com>:
> * without this fix, we get :
> updating working directory
> 74 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
> abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com>
> Tested-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com>
> ---
>  lib/bb/fetch/hg.py |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/bb/fetch/hg.py b/lib/bb/fetch/hg.py
> index d075638..bb156ed 100644
> --- a/lib/bb/fetch/hg.py
> +++ b/lib/bb/fetch/hg.py
> @@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ class Hg(Fetch):
>        # Even when we clone (fetch), we still need to update as hg's clone
>        # won't checkout the specified revision if its on a branch
>         updatecmd = self._buildhgcommand(ud, d, "update")
> +        os.chdir(ud.moddir)
>         bb.msg.debug(1, bb.msg.domain.Fetcher, "Running %s" % updatecmd)
>         runfetchcmd(updatecmd, d)
>
> --
> 1.6.3.3

I understood from Eric that even with this patch one needs mercurial
installed on the host.
I did install it before, and have not tested without it, but with
mercurial installed and this patch hg recipes (like ushare) work.

Enjoy, Frans