Re: appears to be inconsistency re: base-files between oe-core and meta-angstrom

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 07:00:45AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Martin Jansa wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 06:29:17AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > >   trying to build a "hardware-bringup-image" defined in angstrom layer
> > > and running into:
> > >
> > > ERROR: QA Issue: Fixup Perms: Unable to correct directory link, target already exists: /var/log -> /var/volatile/log
> > > ERROR: QA Issue: Fixup Perms: Unable to correct directory link, target already exists: /var/run -> /run
> > > ERROR: QA Issue: Fixup Perms: Unable to correct directory link, target already exists: /var/tmp -> /var/volatile/tmp
> > >
> > > this would *appear* to be because oe-core defines, in
> > > base-files_3.0.14.bb:
> > >
> > > volatiles = "log tmp"
> > > ... snip ...
> > >         for d in ${volatiles}; do
> > >                 ln -sf volatile/$d ${D}${localstatedir}/$d
> > >         done
> > >         ln -snf ../run ${D}${localstatedir}/run
> > >         ln -snf ../run/lock ${D}${localstatedir}/lock
> > >
> > > which seems to want to create /var/{run,log,tmp} as symlinks, but over
> > > in meta-angstrom, we have base-files_3.0.14.bbappend which seems to
> > > want to create them as actual directories instead:
> >
> > Expectations from base-files .bbappend and FILESYSTEM_PERMS_TABLES need
> > to be consistent, is it possible that you're using .bbappend from
> > angstrom and not FILESYSTEM_PERMS_TABLES set by angstrom config?
> >
> > conf/distro/include/angstrom-core-tweaks.inc:FILESYSTEM_PERMS_TABLES = "fs-perms-angstrom.txt"
> 
>   ah, i suspect that's what's happening. so what's the correct way to
> set up this OE build? i'm trying to build the angstrom
> "hardware-bringup-image" using a current oe-core, and my bblayers.conf
> file looks like:
> 
> BBLAYERS ?= " \
>   /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/oe-core/meta \
>   /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \
>   /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/meta-angstrom \
>   /home/rpjday/oe/dist/layers/meta-ti \
>   "

What's your DISTRO value? distroless oe-core?

FWIW I had similar problem with meta-shr (distro layer) in distroless
world builds, in the end I've splitted meta-shr and meta-shr-distro.

https://github.com/shr-distribution/meta-smartphone/commit/a3e2b26f8bf13a47c63419623959e6dbe5bc1c15

> 
> what should i have done differently?
> 
> rday
> 
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