[yocto] nativesdk-libxcrypt-4.0.1 is failing

[Burton, Ross]

Yes, it needs to be backported.

Ross
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 14:58, Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimtass at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ross,
>
> thanks for the reply. Shouldn't these kind of fixes that break a poky branch (like Sumo now,
> which is still in use) be merged also to the affected branches and not only future branches
> like Thud?
>
> Also, for the record anyone who has this issue, just create this file in you layer:
> recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt_%.bbappend
>
> And then add this single line:
> SRCBRANCH = "develop"
>
> Regards,
> Dimitris
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:46 PM Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> The fix is already queued in master-next, so will be n master/thud shortly.
>>
>> Ross
>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 13:44, Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimtass at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > it seems that the libxcrypt recipe in poky is failing because the git repo
>> > doesn't have a master branch anymore. The default branch has changed
>> > to `develop` and the recipe can't fetch the repo when I'm building the SDK
>> > for my image.
>> >
>> > A temporary solution is to override the URL with a bbappend, but in general
>> > this has broken the recipe. This is the error that I'm getting.
>> >
>> > WARNING: nativesdk-libxcrypt-4.0.1-r0 do_fetch: Failed to fetch URL git://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt.git;branch=master, attempting MIRRORS if available
>> > ERROR: nativesdk-libxcrypt-4.0.1-r0 do_fetch: Fetcher failure: Unable to find revision 089479bb24acd168613757a6f12d63caa95416b4 in branch master even from upstream
>> > ERROR: nativesdk-libxcrypt-4.0.1-r0 do_fetch: Fetcher failure for URL: 'git://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt.git;branch=master'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.
>> > ERROR: nativesdk-libxcrypt-4.0.1-r0 do_fetch: Function failed: base_do_fetch
>> > ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /rnd/yocto/nativeos/build/tmp/work/x86_64-nativesdk-nativeosmassdk-linux/nativesdk-libxcrypt/4.0.1-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.19081
>> > ERROR: Task (virtual:nativesdk:/rnd/yocto/nativeos/sources/poky/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt_4.0.1.bb:do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'
>> >
>> > P.S another good reason to enable the own mirrors early in the development phase.
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