[oe] Python exception running step do_package_update_index_ipk in OE classic

[Chris Larson]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:34:24AM +0000, Craig McQueen wrote:
>> I'm trying to build OE classic for i.MX28, following instructions at:
>> http://www.imxdev.org/wiki/index.php?title=All_Boards_OpenEmbedded
>>
>> I'm trying to run:
>>   bitbake bootstrap-image
>>
>> It is failing on a step do_package_update_index_ipk when calling Python program opkg-make-index. See error below.
>>
>> The problem is when it calls subprocess.check_output(), but check_output() is only in Python 2.7, but not Python 2.6.
>>
>> On my machine, Python 2.7 is installed, however it seems that OE must be running Python 2.6. I see that OE builds Python 2.6 in tmp/work/i686-linux/python-native-2.6.6-ml12.0.
>>
>> What would be a good way to fix this?
>
> send patch against
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/opkg-utils/
> to yocto ML
> to make it compatible with both python 2.6 and 2.7

In oe-core, we pulled check_output() and CalledProcessException() out
of 2.7 into the lib/oe tree for local use. You could do that in
opkg-utils too if licensing isn't an issue. It's a relatively small
amount of code.
-- 
Christopher Larson