[yocto] meta-toolchain-sdk fails in edison with package_ipk

[Joshua Lock]

On 17/05/12 12:34, Andrea Galbusera wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Joshua Lock<josh at linux.intel.com>  wrote:
>> Hello Andrea,
>>
>>
>> On 17/05/12 01:21, Andrea Galbusera wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Is there any known problem when building meta-toolchain-sdk target
>>> with PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_ipk" ?
>>>
>>> I have deterministic failure in do_populate_sdk with latest edison
>>> metadata and default local.conf (other than changing PACKAGE_CLASSES
>>> to ipk).
>>> Don't have a denzil tree at hand, but I'm going to check if this is
>>> reproducible with 1.2 too.
>>>
>>> To me it seem the failing task is trying to access host files on my
>>> build system. Here is the first error I can see:
>>>
>>>> Installing libtelepathy-dbg (0.3.3-r3) to root...
>>>> Downloading
>>>> file:/scratch/gizero/edison-build-raid.orig/tmp/deploy/ipk/i586/libtelepathy-dbg_0.3.3-r3_i586.ipk.
>>>> touch: cannot touch `/etc/shells': Permission denied
>>>> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/opkg/alternatives': Permission
>>>> denied
>>>
>>>
>>> Here you can see the full log (few lines stripped to satisfy pastebin
>>> size limits...):
>>>
>>> http://pastebin.com/Gim3DacX
>>>
>>> Build works when I switch to rpm instead of ipk, but I want ipk for my
>>> target and, at moment, I need to switch back and forth the two formats
>>> when I need to update either my images or my sdk. Is there a smarter
>>> way to stay with rpm for the sdk and with ipk for the target images?
>>
>>
>> I've discovered that this is fixed in Denzil
>
> Thank you for your investigation! I ran out of time and could not test
> with denzil today, but you anticipated results... ;-)
>
>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869
>>
>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=c4de612298266653130dd2e5b8378f62dda77e9f
>>
>> I tested here and can report that the issue is resolved with that patch
>> applied.
>>
>> This patch has been applied to my josh/edison branch of the poky-contrib
>> repository and should make it into the main edison branch, and a point
>> release, in the near future.
>>
>> Thanks for the report,
>
> Glad to hear edison too will benefit of the fix! I noticed another
> strange behavior while experimenting with different configurations of
> PACKAGE_CLASSES: but I'd prefer repeating my tests before reporting
> issues.

I'm currently working with Edison to provide an update with various bug 
fixes so please do report your findings here or at bugzilla.yoctoproject.org

Regards,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
         Yocto Project
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre