[poky] Autobuilder status

[Xu, Jiajun]

> On Feb 21, 23:33, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> There appear to be three issues on the autobuilder at present which
>> we need to get fixed quickly.
>> 
>> 1) "zypper search avahi" is causing a segfault on some architectures
>> with a double free being detected by libc. This seems to be the
>> cause of all the runtime sanity test failures.
>> 
>> 2) The tar issues are fixed but there is an underlying problem with
>> error propagation as it appears bitbake was ignoring the sstate
>> extraction failure rather than accounting for it in its build task list.
>> If extraction fails, that task should not be making the "skip" list
>> but it looks like it does. That bug needs fixing too.
>> 
>> 3) There are a number of dpkg-deb failures on permissions. This
>> looks to be pseudo related. Creation of the sstate package and
>> extraction of it should be happening under pseudo and the error
>> suggests this is not happening.
>> 
>> I think PaulE is looking at 2), 3) is new and unassigned and I'm not
>> sure who is looking at 1) but I'd like to confirm someone is.
>> 
>> 
>> I'm also aware of some other niggling problems:
>> 
>> a) do_rootfs depends on the populate_sysroot tasks for all the RDEPENDS.
>> This appears to be to pull in any tools required for the
>> postinstalls and dates to changes I made in 2007. This needs
>> revisiting as its crazy to populate all the sysroots when just the
>> rpms are needed for image generation.
>> 
>> Simply put, a "bitbake poky-image-xxx -c rootfs" should just install
>> the package_write_rpm tasks it needs and the populate_sysroot for
>> any tools needed. No package data or target populate_sysroot tasks should run.
>> 
>> b) "all" architecture packages seem to be getting reinstalled a lot
>> by sstate. Recent changes to the autobuilder should make it clearer
>> when this is happening but we should find out why.
>> 
>> 
>> I'll aim to file bugs on these tomorrow but just wanted to write
>> things down whilst there were fresh in my mind. I suspect there may
>> be a bug open for 1) above but I'd still appreciate a status update on it.
> 
> Yes, Bug 722 is for 1), and Qing is looking at it. He will make a
> status update on this.
> 

Several zypper bugs are reported currently, bug 721, bug 722 and bug 749.

> Regards
> Ke
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Best Regards,
Jiajun