[yocto] Failing to compile Yocto (acl package)

[Tian, Kevin]

>From: Pedro Sanchez
>Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:10 AM
>
>On 12/27/2010 05:44 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 12/27/2010 03:21 PM, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to compile Yocto from sources as described in the quick
>>> start documentation but the build fails as follows:
>>>
>>> $ wget
>>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads/poky/poky-laverne-4.0.tar.bz2
>>> $ tar xjf poky-laverne-4.0.tar.bz2
>>> $ (edited conf/local.conf to select qemuarm)
>>> $ source poky-laverne-4.0/poky-init-build-env poky-4.0-build
>>> $ bitbake poky-image-minimal
>>>
>>>
>>> ... (30 minutes of work)
>>>
>>> NOTE: package acl-2.2.49-r0: task do_fetch: Succeeded
>>> NOTE: Running task 582 of 1621 (ID: 1261,
>>> /home/psanchez/Oven/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.49.bb,
>>> do_unpack)
>>> NOTE: package acl-2.2.49-r0: task do_unpack: Started
>>> NOTE: Unpacking
>>> /home/psanchez/Oven/poky-4.0-build/downloads/acl-2.2.49.src.tar.gz to
>>>
>/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-4.0-build/tmp/work/armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/acl-2.2.49
>-r0/
>>>
>>> ERROR: Task failed:
>>> NOTE: package acl-2.2.49-r0: task do_unpack: Failed
>>> ERROR: Task 1261
>>> (/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.49.bb,
>>> do_unpack) failed with 1
>>> ERROR:
>>> '/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.49.bb'
>>> failed
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried compiling the Laverne branch on a cloned Poky git repo. It
>>> also fails when processing the acl package. Any workarounds? Is there
>>> any log file I can look at for more details?
>>
>> You can find log files in the build directory with a relative
>> path like .../tmp/work/*/acl*/temp
>>
>> In particular, look at the log.do_unpack file for clues
>>
>
>Thanks,
>
>This is what I see:
>
>$ cat armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/acl-2.2.49-r0/temp/log.do_unpack
>gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>tar: Child returned status 1
>tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>NOTE: Unpacking
>/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-4.0-build/downloads/acl-2.2.49.src.tar.gz to
>/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-4.0-build/tmp/work/armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/acl-2.2.49
>-r0/
>ERROR: Task failed:
>
>$ file poky-4.0-build/downloads/acl-2.2.49.src.tar.gz
>poky-4.0-build/downloads/acl-2.2.49.src.tar.gz: HTML document text
>
>The mirror where bb is configured to get acl from, mirror.cinquix.com,
>is down. I'll try to get it from the Savannah site.
>

I've sent out the SRC_URI fixes to use correct Savannah site.

BTW, if the mirror site is down, you should still get a correct tar ball from 
pre-configured poky mirrors (pokylinux.org, ...). Please let's know if those
mirrors don't take effect to you. 

Thanks
Kevin