[yocto] Yocto Project 1.2 Beta testing instructions

[Mark Hatle]

On 4/10/12 6:06 PM, Khor, Boon Pin wrote:
> Hi all
>
>   On my ubuntu 11.10 64bits machines , once I change the default shell to bash , the problem solved .

I believe we expect dash to be fully supported, so this is a bug.

Please file a bug in the Yocto Project bugzilla 
(http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org)  if you are not able to do so, let me know 
and I will file it.

--Mark

> Thanks
> Boon pin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hatle [mailto:mark.hatle at windriver.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:22 AM
> To: Paul Eggleton
> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org; Liu, Song; Khor, Boon Pin
> Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto Project 1.2 Beta testing instructions
>
> On 4/10/12 4:18 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> On Wednesday 04 April 2012 18:08:58 Liu, Song wrote:
>>> Can someone help answer the following question? This happens during
>>> Boon Pin's beta testing using the build at:
>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/snapshot/poky-8e9f6fc7
>>> 7ac476
>>> 3f4ed1f6e7b720420c220ba6e2.tar.bz2 .
>>> ...
>>> | Processing task-core-boot...
>>> | Manifest:
>>> | /home/nemo/yp-beta-build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-min
>>> | imal-1 .0-r0/rootfs/install/install.manifest local: 1: -Uhv: bad
>>> | variable name
>>>
>>> NOTE: package core-image-minimal-1.0-r0: task do_rootfs: Failed
>>> ERROR: Task 8
>>> (/home/nemo/yp-beta/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb,
>>> do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1' NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted
>>> 1329 tasks of which 287 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.
>>
>> Sorry for the late reply, presumably this issue is still present?
>>
>>> Maybe I am missing rpm packages in ubuntu ?
>>
>> You don't need to install rpm on the host system, we build rpm-native
>> for that.
>>
>> Mark, any clues what could be going wrong here?
>
> I've never seen any problem like this before.  Below is some analysis and a question at the very end...
>
> There are only two places in the system where the string -Uhv exists:
>
> package_rpm.bbclass:
>
>           rpm_common_comand --replacepkgs \
>               -Uhv ${target_rootfs}/install/total_solution.manifest
>
> (rpm_common_comand is a shell function it appears... the arguments to the function are passed, via $@ to an RPM command)
>
> rootfs_rpm.bbclass:
>
> rootfs_install_packages() {
>       # The pkg to be installed here is not controlled by the
>       # package_install_internal_rpm, so it may have already been
>       # installed(e.g, installed in the first time when generate the
>       # rootfs), use '--replacepkgs' to always install them
>           for pkg in $@; do
>                   ${RPM} --root ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} -D "_dbpath ${rpmlibdir}" \
>                           -D "__dbi_txn create nofsync private" \
>                           --noscripts --notriggers --noparentdirs --nolinktos \
>                           --replacepkgs -Uhv $pkg || true
>           done
> }
>
> I would guess from the error that it's the one in package_rpm.bbclass that failed.. if that is the case, then all I can think of is what shell?  Are we using a bash-ism?  Does "dash" on ubuntu have shell functions enabled in it, if not that might be the problem.
>
> Please check your system's /bin/sh.. is it a symlink, if so, what does it point to?  If it points to "dash", change it to "bash" and see if the error still occurs.
>
> --Mark