[oe] parsing errors with angstrom/meta-linaro

[Khem Raj]

On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Riku Voipio wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The problem is that git.linaro.org is not providing good service and
> often fails to respond to git requests. When bitbake fails to fetch
> the latest git, it is unable to expand AUTOREV, and throws in the
> towel. You can reproduce the issue easily with any recipe that has a
> git:// url and AUTOREV by disconnecting the OE build machine from the
> network.
>
> Could we make AUTOREV to expand to latest version found from
> downloads/git2 in case the git fetch fails?
>
>

I would suggest to not use autorev if git servers are flaky
Secondly for external recipes its bad practice since it defeats
BB_NO_NETWORK
Feature which many use



> Riku
>
>
>
> On 8 August 2013 20:28, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 8, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Fathi Boudra <fathi.boudra at linaro.org<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 8 August 2013 08:48, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> Often I see this error when parsing angstrom-next, has anyone seen
> something similar or delved into the reason behind
> >>> it ?
> >>>
> >>> NOTE: Started PRServer with DBfile:
> /builds1/angstrom/cache/prserv.sqlite3, IP: 127.0.0.1, PORT: 45141, PID:
> 6728
> >>> Parsing recipes...ERROR: ExpansionError during parsing
> /builds1/angstrom/sources/meta-linaro/meta-aarch64/recipes-kernel/linux/
> linux-linaro_git.bb: Failure expanding variable SRCPV, expression was
> ${@bb.fetch2.get_srcrev(d)} which triggered exception FetchError: Fetcher
> failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 128, output:
> >>> fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer
> >>>
> >>> ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1
> >>>
> >>> Summary: There were 2 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit
> code.
> >>
> >> I'm seeing a similar issue[1] on another recipe (libhugetlbfs[2] for
> instance).
> >> It's worth mentioning:
> >> - only on my local machine (it doesn't happen on daily builds using
> >> EC2 instances)
> >> - also from meta-linaro/meta-aarch64
> >> - also code pull from git, using SRCPV/AUTOREV
> >>
> >> [1] Failure expanding variable SRCPV, expression was
> ${@bb.fetch2.get_srcrev(d)}
> >> [2]
> https://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=openembedded/meta-linaro.git;a=blob;f=meta-aarch64/recipes-extended/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs_2.16.bb;hb=master
> >
> > if I pull out meta-aarch64 from the bblayers all works ok. I don't hit
> this error at all
> > so somethins is fishy with this layer
> >
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Fathi
> >
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