[yocto] sysroot not being populated

[Patrick Vacek]

On 08.06.2018 10:26, Khem Raj wrote:
>
>
> On 6/8/18 12:27 AM, Patrick Vacek wrote:
>> On 07.06.2018 19:06, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> Hi Patrick
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 2:01 AM, Patrick Vacek
>>> <patrick.vacek at here.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I have a recipe (aktualizr-hsm-prov) that depends on another
>>>> (aktualizr)
>>>> to provide an executable and a config file. The former recipe includes
>>>> `DEPENDS = "aktualizr-native"`, and my do_install() for
>>>> aktualizr-hsm-prov has a line something like this:
>>>>
>>>> aktualizr -i ${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${libdir}/sota.conf
>>>>
>>>> The binary executable (aktualizr) runs, which tells me that the recipe
>>>> can find that. (Although to be honest, I'm not sure which version
>>>> it is
>>>> running.) However, it doesn't find the config file, and sure enough,
>>>> ${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${libdir} does not have the config file I
>>>> expect. I
>>>> can see that aktualizr-native is populating its sysroot-destdir,
>>>> but it
>>>> isn't getting copied to the sysroot for aktualizr-hsm-prov.
>>>>
>>>> I see this problem in sumo and master, although previously this logic
>>>> has worked just fine in morty/pyro/rocko.
>>>>
>>>> Switching to depending on aktualizr (instead of aktualizr-native) and
>>>> using STAGING_DIR_HOST or STAGING_DIR_TARGET does not help, and in
>>>> fact
>>>> makes it worse, as it can't even find the aktualizr executable in
>>>> that case.
>>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong? What changed between rocko and sumo?
>>> is aktualizr recipe installing this .conf file when building native
>>> version. If not may be
>>> add it to do_install
>>>
>>> install -D -m 0644 <path/to/sota.conf> ${D}${libdir}/sota.conf
>>
>> Hello Khem,
>>
>> I believe so. The aktualizr recipe includes the following (edited for
>> simplicity):
>>
>> BBCLASSEXTEND =+ "native"
>>
>> do_install_append () {
>>      install -m 0644 ${S}/config/sota.conf ${D}/${libdir}/sota.conf
>> }
>>
>> PACKAGES =+ " ${PN}-host-tools "
>>
>> FILES_${PN}-host-tools = " ${libdir}/sota.conf "
>>
>
> Can you check location of sota.conf in the build tree for
> aktualizr-native in directory called package/ 
Oddly, I do not see a package subdirectory inside the aktualizr-native
directory in the build tree. I do see it inside the aktualizr directory,
though, and it contains everything that I would expect. Is there some
sort of configuration of the packaging system for a native recipe that I
haven't done correctly?

For the record, here is the actual recipe:
https://github.com/advancedtelematic/meta-updater/blob/master/recipes-sota/aktualizr/aktualizr_git.bb