[yocto] rpm/dnf issues when building an SDK

[Tobias Olausson]

Hey all,

Just for any future users that encounter the same issues, it's a bug in
utils.py for bitbake, for which there is a patch submitted here:
https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/144399/

Applying the patch as follows:
patch -d /path/to/poky -p1 <
/path/to/0001-bitbake-lib-bb-utils-fix-movefile-copy-to-dir-fallba.patch

Makes the SDK build succeed on all my machines.

//Tobias


On 11/13/2017 06:13 PM, Tobias Olausson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have a weird issue when generating an SDK for the image I'm building.
> Somehow, I end up with the following errors:
>
> $ bitbake -c populate_sdk core-image-pelux-minimal
> ERROR: core-image-pelux-minimal-1.0-r0 do_populate_sdk: unable to place
> /home/vagrant/pelux_yocto/build/tmp/work/intel_corei7_64-pelux-linux/core-image-pelux-minimal/1.0-r0/sdk/image/etc/rpmrc
> in final SDK location
> ERROR: core-image-pelux-minimal-1.0-r0 do_populate_sdk: unable to place
> /home/vagrant/pelux_yocto/build/tmp/work/intel_corei7_64-pelux-linux/core-image-pelux-minimal/1.0-r0/sdk/image/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
> in final SDK location
>
> I have no idea why, and re-running the populate_sdk step succeeds
> without any tasks being run, and even after those errors, an sdk is
> produced, but I end up with 2 errors and a non-zero exit code. A quick
> check easily reveals that the files it wanted to place in "final SDK
> location" are non-existent, so the error as such makes sense.
>
> In my CI system I build this using vagrant with docker as the provider,
> and it's only then I notice this issue. When building locally (with
> docker or otherwise) there are no such issues. The CI system (and when I
> build locally) are ubuntu and debian, respectively. The error is present
> in the CI setup regardless of having rpm on the host machine or not.
>
> I couldn't find any info on other people having the same problem, and I
> start feeling stuck on this because it only fails in some environments,
> it seems.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tobias Olausson
> Software Engineer
>
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>
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