[yocto] something about gtk+-2.24.8.tar.bz2 that requires constant downloading?

[Wang, Shane]

Khem Raj wrote on 2012-06-05:

> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Wang, Shane <shane.wang at intel.com>
> wrote:
>> Yeah, Robert,
>> 
>> You found a bug in bitbake. In the fetch code, local directory
>> /home/rpjday/dl/gtk+-2.24.8.tar.bz2 is decoded as
>> /home/rpjday/dl/gtk%2B-2.24.8.tar.bz2 by newuri = uri_replace(origud,
>> find, replace, ld), which is line 480 in lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py. And
>> later on it is checked whether or not existed by if not
>> os.path.exists(newpath) and path.find("*") == -1:, which is line 61 in
>> lib/bb/fetch2/local.py.
>> 
>> Actually the directory /home/rpjday/dl/gtk+-2.24.8.tar.bz2 is there, but
> /home/rpjday/dl/gtk%2B-2.24.8.tar.bz2 can't be found by bitbake code. That
> is the problem. Therefore, Gtk+ shouldn't be decoded as gtk%2B.
>> 
>> I am not familiar with the whole fetch code and hope someone else can
> correct it, so can you please file a bug first?
> 
> its probably due to use of urllib.unquote in decodeurl and not keeping
> the unquoted name for subsequent use
>> 
>> --
>> Shane

Correct.

--
Shane