[yocto] setting SRC_URI runtime - possible options

[Alexander Kanavin]

If you provide some context for why you want this, we might be able to
suggest a different way.

Alex

On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 08:11, Belisko Marek <marek.belisko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have special need to fetch repo which is defined in config file in form (repo and branch):
> git at testrepo.com/myrepo mysuperbranch
>
> Config file is placed in recipe directory. I've tried to add some bits and pieces but it seems it's not doing right. Snippet from recipe:
>
> LICENSE = "CLOSED"
>
> SRCREV = "${AUTOREV}"
> PV = "${SRCPV}"
>
> do_fetch_prepend () {
>
>     src_uri = d.getVar('SRC_URI')
>
>     p = d.getVar("FILE")
>     idx = p.rfind("/")
>     p = p[:idx]
>     p += "/config.txt"
>
>     with open(p) as f:
>         read_data = f.readline().strip().split(" ")
>         d.setVar('SRC_URI', read_data[0])
> }
>
> SRC_URI = ""
>
> S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
>
> It looks like that repo is fetched but unpack doesn't put git directory in $WORKDIR and in build directory I get strange directories like:
>
> !=
> bitbake-cookerdaemon.log
> cache
> conf
> ${@d.getVar('S')
> else
> if
> os.path.join('
> os.path.normpath(d.getVar('S'))
> os.path.normpath(d.getVar('WORKDIR'))
> 'patches')}
> tmp
>
> so there is obviously I'm doing something wrong :). My question is if this is the way or should I stick to some variables set in local.conf and then use it in recipe? Thanks a lot for any pointers.
>
> BR,
>
> marek
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