[yocto] How to handle src.rpm packages

[Christian Ege]

 Hello,

 I am interested in how to handle source code inside of a src.rpm 
 package. There had been a patch from Mark Hatle which handles the rpm 
 packages inside the fetcher2. In his patch he suggests to handle Patches 
 inside the rpm in the following way:


 file://${WORKDIR}/mypatch.patch

 When I tried this inside the SRC_URI declaration I always get en error 
 like this:

 NOTE: Running task 439 of 669 (ID: 4, 
 /home/chris/src/poky-denzil/meta-stlinux/recipes-core/stslave/stslave_0.7.bb, 
 do_fetch)
 NOTE: package stslave-0.7-r1: task do_fetch: Started
 ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 
 'file:///home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/stslave-0.7.tar.gz'. 
 Unable to fetch URL from any source.
 ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: 
 /home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/temp/log.do_fetch.25817
 Log data follows:
 | DEBUG: Trying PREMIRRORS
 | DEBUG: For url ['file', '', 
 '/home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/stslave-0.7.tar.gz', 
 '', '', {}] comparing ['bzr', '.*', '/.*', '', '', {}] to ['http', 
 'downloads.yoctoproject.org', '/mirror/sources/', '', '', {}]
 | DEBUG: For url ['file', '', 
 '/home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/stslave-0.7.tar.gz', 
 '', '', {}] comparing ['cvs', '.*', '/.*', '', '', {}] to ['http', 
 'downloads.yoctoproject.org', '/mirror/sources/', '', '', {}]
 | DEBUG: For url ['file', '', 
 '/home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/stslave-0.7.tar.gz', 
 '', '', {}] comparing ['git', '.*', '/.*', '', '', {}] to ['http', 
 'downloads.yoctoproject.org', '/mirror/sources/', '', '', {}]
 | DEBUG: For url ['file', '', 
 '/home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/stslave-0.7.tar.gz', 
 '', '', {}] comparing ['hg', '.*', '/.*', '', '', {}] to ['http', 
 'downloads.yoctoproject.org', '/mirror/sources/', '', '', {}]
 | DEBUG: For url ['file', '', 
 '/home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/stslave-0.7.tar.gz', 
 '', '', {}] comparing ['osc', '.*', '/.*', '', '', {}] to ['http', 
 'downloads.yoctoproject.org', '/mirror/sources/', '', '', {}]
 | DEBUG: For url ['file', '', 
 '/home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/stslave-0.7.tar.gz', 
 '', '', {}] comparing ['p4', '.*', '/.*', '', '', {}] to ['http', 
 'downloads.yoctoproject.org', '/mirror/sources/', '', '', {}]
 | DEBUG: For url ['file', '', 
 '/home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/stslave-0.7.tar.gz', 
 '', '', {}] comparing ['svk', '.*', '/.*', '', '', {}] to ['http', 
 'downloads.yoctoproject.org', '/mirror/sources/', '', '', {}]
 | DEBUG: For url ['file', '', 
 '/home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/stslave-0.7.tar.gz', 
 '', '', {}] comparing ['svn', '.*', '/.*', '', '', {}] to ['http', 
 'downloads.yoctoproject.org', '/mirror/sources/', '', '', {}]
 | DEBUG: Trying Upstream
 | ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 
 'file:///home/chris/src/poky-denzil/spark7162-build/tmp/work/sh4-poky-linux/stslave-0.7-r1/stslave-0.7.tar.gz'. 
 Unable to fetch URL from any source.

 Yes of course I can just let fetcher2 extract all the files an 
 afterwards apply the patches by hand. But I think there should be a more 
 generic way to handle this. I hope I can get some hints how to solve 
 this.




 with kind regards,

 Christian