[yocto] an error when adding "snappy" package

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-08-23 14:36, Reeve Yang wrote:
> Hi Gary, the uri.inc is just my include file to point to local package storage location, and "native" extend I have taken it out.
>
> Yeah, I figured it out this is rpm specific. If I change the site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/pm.py, line 280 to:
>
>                  self.rpmout = reader(open(rpmoutpath), errors = "ignore")
>
> The error would be gone and my tarball is created successfully. My question is, why yocto assume default encoding is ascii? Is there anyway for me to specify the encoding in "utf8"?

This sounds like a bug to me.  It would be best if you file it as
such with bugzilla so it gets looked at properly (I'm not the one
to do that, sorry)

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2013-08-22 13:30, Gary Thomas wrote:
>
>         On 2013-08-21 16:03, Reeve Yang wrote:
>
>             Hi Grus,
>
>             I have been trying to add google snappy package into yocto (https://code.google.com/p/__snappy/ <https://code.google.com/p/snappy/>), here is my receipt file, nothing
>             special:
>
>             SUMMARY = "Snappy is a compression/decompression library."
>             DESCRIPTION = "...."
>             HOMEPAGE="https://code.google.__com/p/snappy <https://code.google.com/p/snappy>"
>             SECTION = "console/utils"
>             LICENSE = "BSD"
>             LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=__b2c8cef4261c6377dcae51b2903d70__4b"
>             PR = "r0"
>             require ../uri.inc
>
>
>         What's in this file (uri.inc)?
>
>             SRC_URI = "${URIPREFIX}/snappy-${PV}.__tar.gz"
>             SRC_URI[md5sum] = "__c8f3ef29b5281e78f4946b2d739cea__4f"
>             SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "__1fa82bc588bb93fa74dfc0e2e9b7d6__3b6e2a20ede323ef42bf0af0f94767__6160"
>             inherit autotools
>             BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
>             do_compile() {
>                   oe_runmake all
>             }
>             do_install() {
>                   oe_runmake DESTDIR=${D} install
>             }
>             BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
>
>
>         Do you need this (is snappy-native used)?
>
>
>     Note: I had no trouble building and installing this into a IPK based image, so
>     it may be something special with the RPM packaging (which I don't use).
>
>
>
>
>             The package was built successfully, but when I try to build core-image-lsb (my own image but similar), I got following error:
>
>             |  528:Installing libsnappy1      ##############################__########## [ 44%]
>             | Traceback (most recent call last):
>             |   File "/home2/reeve-ws/yocto-dylan-__merge/build/tmp/sysroots/x86___64-linux/usr/lib/python2.7/__site-packages/smart/backends/__rpm/pm.py", line 312, in __call__
>             |     self._process_rpmout()
>             |   File "/home2/reeve-ws/yocto-dylan-__merge/build/tmp/sysroots/x86___64-linux/usr/lib/python2.7/__site-packages/smart/backends/__rpm/pm.py", line 297, in _process_rpmout
>             |     output = self.rpmout.read()
>             |   File "/home2/reeve-ws/yocto-dylan-__merge/build/tmp/sysroots/x86___64-linux/usr/lib/python2.7/__codecs.py", line 477, in read
>             |     newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
>             | UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 740: ordinal not in range(128)
>             |
>             | Traceback (most recent call last):
>             |   File "/home2/reeve-ws/yocto-dylan-__merge/build/tmp/sysroots/x86___64-linux/usr/lib/python2.7/__site-packages/smart/backends/__rpm/pm.py", line 312, in __call__
>             |     self._process_rpmout()
>             |   File "/home2/reeve-ws/yocto-dylan-__merge/build/tmp/sysroots/x86___64-linux/usr/lib/python2.7/__site-packages/smart/backends/__rpm/pm.py", line 297, in _process_rpmout
>             |     output = self.rpmout.read()
>             |   File "/home2/reeve-ws/yocto-dylan-__merge/build/tmp/sysroots/x86___64-linux/usr/lib/python2.7/__codecs.py", line 477, in read
>             |     newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
>             | UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 740: ordinal not in range(128)
>             |
>             | ERROR: Function failed: do_rootfs (see /home2/reeve-ws/yocto-dylan-__merge/build/tmp/work/rp-poky-__linux/core-image-ssr/1.0-r0/__temp/log.do_rootfs.2751 for further
>             information)
>             ERROR: Task 7 (/home2/reeve-ws/yocto-dylan-__merge/meta-ericsson-ssr-rp/__recipes-core-image/core-image-__ssr.bb <http://core-image-ssr.bb> <http://core-image-ssr.bb>,
>             do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'
>             NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 4128 tasks of which 4114 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.
>             No currently running tasks (4128 of 4129)
>
>             Can anyone help me out?
>
>
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