[yocto] BB_NO_NETWORK and own-mirrors not working with meta-systemd

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-09-19 10:34, Evade Flow wrote:
> Trying to build the meta-ivi discovery-image behind a firewall is
> proving to be quite a challenge. I tried modifying my conf/local.conf
> file as follows:
>
> CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URIS=""
> BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1"
> SOURCE_MIRROR_URL ?= "file:///home/evadeflow/projects/poky-mirror/"
> INHERIT += "own-mirrors"
>
> and then ran:
>
> % bitbake discovery-image
>
> in a VM on my home laptop over the weekend. (I'm trying to build using
> the meta-ivi layer, per the instructions in its README.) After grinding
> and churning for some 60+ hours, it finally succeeded, leaving 11 GB of
> 'stuff' in my poky-mirror folder.
>
> Then, I copied the poky-mirror folder to a firewalled machine at work
> and added:
>
> BB_NO_NETWORK="1"
>
> to local.conf.  When I tried to bitbake discovery-image on this machine,
> I got the following error:
>
>
> NOTE: Running task 697 of 3568 (ID: 1374,
> /home/evadeflow/projects/poky-git/meta-systemd/recipes-kernel/kmod/kmod_7.bb,
> do_fetch)
> NOTE: package kmod-7-r0: task do_fetch: Started
> ERROR: Function failed: Network access disabled through BB_NO_NETWORK
> but access rquested with command git ls-remote
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git v7 (for url
> None)
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /home/evadeflow/projects/poky-git/build/tmp-eglibc-eglibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/kmod-7-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.29423
> Log data follows:
> | ERROR: Function failed: Network access disabled through
> BB_NO_NETWORK but access rquested with command git ls-remote
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git v7 (for url
> None)
> NOTE: package kmod-7-r0: task do_fetch: Failed
> ERROR: Task 1374
> (/home/evadeflow/projects/poky-git/meta-systemd/recipes-kernel/kmod/kmod_7.bb,
> do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'
> Waiting for 1 running tasks to finish:
> 0: libusb1-1.0.8-r4 do_compile (pid 29232)
> NOTE: package libusb1-1.0.8-r4: task do_compile: Succeeded
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 697 tasks of which 105 didn't need to
> be rerun and 1 failed.
>
> Summary: 1 task failed:
>    /home/evadeflow/projects/poky-git/meta-systemd/recipes-kernel/kmod/kmod_7.bb,
> do_fetch
> Summary: There was 1 ERROR message shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
> bitbake discovery-image  5338.15s user 995.52s system 187% cpu 56:12.92 total
>
> [NOTE: I'm on poky denzil at 65ffa73, meta-ivi denzil at e068388, and
> meta-systemd denzil at 6a358e9. Also, that typo in the output
> isn't mine, i.e., 'rquested' should be 'requested'.]
>
> Can anyone explain what's going on here? If I look in the poky-mirror
> folder for kmod-related stuff, I see:
>
> % ls /home/evadeflow/projects/poky-mirror/*kmod*
> /home/evadeflow/projects/poky-mirror/git2_git.kernel.org.pub.scm.utils.kernel.kmod.kmod.git.tar.gz
> /home/evadeflow/projects/poky-mirror/git2_git.profusion.mobi.kmod.git.tar.gz
>
> I *think* this is what needs to be downloaded for this recipe(?) Why is
> `git ls-remote` being run at all? I'm not sure whether this is the fault
> of poky/oe-core, or of the meta-systemd layer. I'd just really wish it
> worked. `:-}  Any advice?

Where did you get that meta-systemd layer?  I can't find your
recipe nor that revision (denzil at 6a358e9) in the published version
which is at git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded according
to http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/LayerIndex

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