[yocto] Problem using Subversion in Pyro

[Alan Levy]

It does get built, and it apparently does get used to do the actual fetching, just not for miscellaneous functions such as populating SRCREV which rely on the svn executable being on the PATH. This appears to be deliberate since there is a FETCHCMD_svn variable in bitbake.conf. The simplest way for me to force an svn executable onto PATH was to add it to HOSTTOOLS but that may not be what is really intended.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Kanavin [mailto:alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com] 
Sent: 18 May 2017 13:41
To: yocto at yoctoproject.org; Alan Levy
Subject: Re: [yocto] Problem using Subversion in Pyro

On 05/18/2017 02:40 PM, Alan Levy wrote:
> I have a recipe that fetches code from an SVN repository and uses 
> ${SRCPV} to obtain its version number. This works fine under Morty but 
> the recipe crashes out with an error under Pyro because it can't find 
> the SVN executable.
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> Eventually I traced this down to the fact that SVN is missing from the 
> list of host apps defined in HOSTTOOLS in bitbake.conf. If I add an 
> assignment in local.conf to append svn to HOSTTOOLS all is well again.
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> I think that this is almost certainly a bug but I thought I'd raise 
> the question here just in case it's really me doing something wrong.

There is a subversion recipe in oe-core, and it should be built (in the native variant) specifically for this purpose (base.bbclass):

         # Svn packages should DEPEND on subversion-native
         if scheme == "svn":
             needsrcrev = True
             d.appendVarFlag('do_fetch', 'depends', ' 
subversion-native:do_populate_sysroot')

BUT... we no longer have recipes in oe-core that fetch from svn:// so it does not get tested, and may well have regressed.

Can you check if it does get build, and whether the subversion binary gets installed into your recipe's sysroot?

Alex