[yocto] Yocto Project 1.2 Beta testing instructions

[Khor, Boon Pin]

Hi all 

 On my ubuntu 11.10 64bits machines , once I change the default shell to bash , the problem solved .

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