[PATCH 1/1] liberation-fonts: do not inherit allarch

[PATCH 1/1] liberation-fonts: do not inherit allarch

[Joe Slater]

The fontcache class performs post-installation cache
updating and needs target architecture information.

Signed-off-by: Joe Slater <jslater@windriver.com>
---
 meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_2.00.1.bb | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_2.00.1.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_2.00.1.bb
index 412da48..5e8ba93 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_2.00.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/liberation-fonts_2.00.1.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ LICENSE = "OFL-1.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=f96db970a9a46c5369142b99f530366b"
 PE = "1"
 
-inherit allarch fontcache
+# The fonts are arch independent, but fontcache is not!
+# Do not inherit allarch.
+#
+inherit fontcache
 
 FONT_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
 
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH 1/1] liberation-fonts: do not inherit allarch

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 13:23 -0800, Joe Slater wrote:
> The fontcache class performs post-installation cache
> updating and needs target architecture information.

Can you expand a bit on this? Do you mean that the postinstalls written
into the packages are arch specific? Can we stop the scripts being arch
specific?

Cheers,

Richard

Re: [PATCH 1/1] liberation-fonts: do not inherit allarch

[Slater, Joseph]

A number of postinstall's run target binaries, whether on the host or target.  This means they invoke qemu on the host and try to tell it where bits are.  I think it might not be necessary to pass explicit information about library locations to qemu, but that is the way it is done, and that information is arch dependent.  It might well be the case that "confusion" occurs only when multilib is enabled, but the point is that it does happen.

I think it used to be the case that an attempt was made to run native versions of target tools during postinstall, but that seems to have been abandoned in favor of using qemu.  This means that if there is no qemu support, postinstall is deferred to first boot.  This is no problem except for read-only fs's, but they have other problems anyway.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Purdie [mailto:richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org] 
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 2:28 PM
To: Slater, Joseph; openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [oe-core][PATCH 1/1] liberation-fonts: do not inherit allarch

On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 13:23 -0800, Joe Slater wrote:
> The fontcache class performs post-installation cache updating and 
> needs target architecture information.

Can you expand a bit on this? Do you mean that the postinstalls written into the packages are arch specific? Can we stop the scripts being arch specific?

Cheers,

Richard

Re: [PATCH 1/1] liberation-fonts: do not inherit allarch

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 12/22/2017 02:00 AM, Slater, Joseph wrote:
> A number of postinstall's run target binaries, whether on the host or
> target.  This means they invoke qemu on the host and try to tell it
> where bits are.  I think it might not be necessary to pass explicit
> information about library locations to qemu, but that is the way it
> is done, and that information is arch dependent.  It might well be
> the case that "confusion" occurs only when multilib is enabled, but
> the point is that it does happen.

I think Ross had a different patch to deal with the multilib-qemu libray 
confusion, so this might not yet be necessary.

Also, if this needs to be fixed, you need to fix it everywhere - 
cantarell-fonts, adwaita-icon-theme, etc. etc.

Alex

Re: [PATCH 1/1] liberation-fonts: do not inherit allarch

[Slater, Joseph]

I tried the patch to the allarch class and the problem does away.    Joe
________________________________________
From: Alexander Kanavin [alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com]
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 12:34 AM
To: Slater, Joseph; Richard Purdie; openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; BURTON, ROSS
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [oe-core][PATCH 1/1] liberation-fonts: do not inherit allarch

On 12/22/2017 02:00 AM, Slater, Joseph wrote:
> A number of postinstall's run target binaries, whether on the host or
> target.  This means they invoke qemu on the host and try to tell it
> where bits are.  I think it might not be necessary to pass explicit
> information about library locations to qemu, but that is the way it
> is done, and that information is arch dependent.  It might well be
> the case that "confusion" occurs only when multilib is enabled, but
> the point is that it does happen.

I think Ross had a different patch to deal with the multilib-qemu libray
confusion, so this might not yet be necessary.

Also, if this needs to be fixed, you need to fix it everywhere -
cantarell-fonts, adwaita-icon-theme, etc. etc.

Alex