[yocto] Simple recipe quit working in dizzy

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Jim,

On Wednesday 18 February 2015 20:33:43 Jim Rafert wrote:
> The following recipe, spectra-postbuild_0.1.bb, quit working when I ported
> from 1.6 daisy to 1.7.1 dizzy.  I include the recipe in my image by adding
> it at the end of of the IMAGE_INSTALL_append variable in my local.conf
> file.  The purpose of the recipe is simply to lay down some files that will
> later be used by an installer script.  Two if the files are deposited in
> the root directory, and the rest are placed in the /install/spectra
> directory, which is created by the recipe.  Nothing is compiled or
> transformed in any way.
> 
> When I bitbake the recipe, then bitbake core-image-full-cmdline, both
> complete without errors. When I look at the contents of the rpm file
> produced by the recipe, all the files and directories are listed. However,
> when I examine the file system images created, only the two files that I
> place in the root directory (/) are there, and the entire /install
> directory hierarchy is missing. If I modify the recipe such that the
> missing files are placed in a directory that is already created by other
> recipes (/home/root), all the files are deposited as expected.
> 
> I have looked at section 5.6 of the Yocto reference manual, "Moving to the
> Yocto Project 1.7 Release", but did not see anything that was obviously
> relevant.
> 
> Can someone tell me how to fix this for dizzy?
> 
> ######################################################
> # spectra-postbuild_0.1.bb
> ######################################################
> 
> SUMMARY = "Post processing of configuration files for SpectraOS"
> SECTION = "base"
> LICENSE = "GPLv2"
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
> "file://${WORKDIR}/COPYRIGHT;md5=349c872e0066155e1818b786938876a4" 
> PR = "r0"
> 
> SRC_URI = "file://inittab \
>        file://fstab \
>        file://rsyslog.conf \
>            file://profile \
>        file://grub.cfg \
>        file://mount.sh \
>        file://RELEASE-NOTES.txt \
>        file://Spectra-OS-Version \
>        file://initializeCustomKernelModules \
>        file://firewall \
>        file://sysctl.conf \
>            file://InstallOS.sh \
>        file://COPYRIGHT \
>            file://WinCE_LCM.tar.bz \
>        "
> 
> FILES_${PN} =  "/RELEASE-NOTES.txt \
>                 /Spectra-OS-Version \
>                 /install \
>                 /install/spectra \
>                 /install/spectra/InstallOS.sh \
>                 /install/spectra/fstab \
>                 /install/spectra/mount.sh \
>                 /install/spectra/grub.cfg \
>                 /install/spectra/rsyslog.conf \
>                 /install/spectra/profile \
>                 /install/spectra/inittab \
>                 /install/spectra/WinCE_LCM.tar.bz \
>                 /install/spectra/sysctl.conf \
>                 /install/spectra/init.d \
>                 /install/spectra/rc5.d \
>                 /install/spectra/init.d/initializeCustomKernelModules \
>                 /install/spectra/init.d/firewall \
>                 "
> 
> do_install () {
>     install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/RELEASE-NOTES.txt ${D}
>     install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/Spectra-OS-Version ${D}
>         install -d ${D}/install
>         install -d ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 544 ${WORKDIR}/inittab ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/fstab ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/rsyslog.conf ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/profile ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/grub.cfg ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/mount.sh ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/InstallOS.sh ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/sysctl.conf ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/WinCE_LCM.tar.bz ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/firewall ${D}/install/spectra
>         install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/initializeCustomKernelModules
> ${D}/install/spectra
> 
> }

Hmm, so I can't see anything immediately wrong with the recipe that would lead 
to a problem such as what you describe, so rather than something expected 
change between releases this looks more like a bug. Is there anything in the 
log.do_rootfs for the image that might indicate something going wrong? Perhaps 
an uncaught error?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre