Re: linux-yocto.do_validate_branches failing since last oe-core update

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 15:56 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail
> .com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.c
> > om> wrote:
> > > I'm still seeing this with your "kernel-yocto/kern-tools: fix
> > > do_validate_branches clean stage" patch applied:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_patch
> > > | ERROR: Could not apply patches for qemux86.
> > > | ERROR: Patch failures can be resolved in the linux source
> > > directory work-shared/qemux86/kernel-source)
> > > | 
> > > | [ERROR] Can't find patch dir at .kernel-meta/
> > > | usage: kgit s2q
> > > | ERROR: Function failed: do_patch (log file is located at linux-
> > > yocto/1_4.10.9+gitAUTOINC+ad2e885015_fe0fb8da3d-
> > > r0/temp/log.do_patch.44497)
> > > NOTE: recipe linux-yocto-
> > > 1_4.10.9+gitAUTOINC+ad2e885015_fe0fb8da3d-r0: task do_patch:
> > > Failed
> > > 
> > Well bugger.
> > 
> > I'll start another set of builds.
> > 
> I had this on a build loop all day without any luck. I also enlisted
> a few others around the office
> to build master and see if they could cause an issue .. again, no
> luck.
> 
> Richard/Ross: are you seeing this same thing on the autobuilder ?
> 
> There's some incantation or config that I'm missing, I assume this is
> a straight qemux86 config
> with a bitbake of something like core-image-minimal ?

We're not seeing this on the autobuilders. I do suspect something in
the handling of extra patches or cfg fragments from SRC_URI if I had to
guess. That certainly was the trigger last time I saw this.

Cheers,

Richard