Has the file:// behavior changed in SRC_URI

Has the file:// behavior changed in SRC_URI

[Philip Balister]

I know I used to be able to use a local directory with kernel source 
like this:

SRC_URI = "file:///home/balister/kernel_source"

but now all that is copied to ${WORK} is an empty directory. This is 
with bitbake 1.10.0.

Any thoughts?

Philip

Re: Has the file:// behavior changed in SRC_URI

[Chris Larson]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>wrote:

> I know I used to be able to use a local directory with kernel source like
> this:
>
> SRC_URI = "file:///home/balister/kernel_source"
>
> but now all that is copied to ${WORK} is an empty directory. This is with
> bitbake 1.10.0.
>
> Any thoughts?


Should work, if it doesn't its a bug in the metadata.  Are you using
relatively recent OE, or a split off tree?  There was a fix that went into
OE for do_unpack to obey either the 'path' *or* 'host' url components for
file: uris, because which it goes in was changed in bitbake.
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clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics

Re: Has the file:// behavior changed in SRC_URI

[Philip Balister]

On 08/24/2010 10:37 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Philip Balister<philip@balister.org>wrote:
>
>> I know I used to be able to use a local directory with kernel source like
>> this:
>>
>> SRC_URI = "file:///home/balister/kernel_source"
>>
>> but now all that is copied to ${WORK} is an empty directory. This is with
>> bitbake 1.10.0.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Should work, if it doesn't its a bug in the metadata.  Are you using
> relatively recent OE, or a split off tree?  There was a fix that went into
> OE for do_unpack to obey either the 'path' *or* 'host' url components for
> file: uris, because which it goes in was changed in bitbake.

This is a recent metadata pull and the 1.10.0 tarball for bitbake.

Philip

Re: Has the file:// behavior changed in SRC_URI

[Cliff Brake]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Philip Balister <philip@balister.org> wrote:
> I know I used to be able to use a local directory with kernel source like
> this:
>
> SRC_URI = "file:///home/balister/kernel_source"
>
> but now all that is copied to ${WORK} is an empty directory. This is with
> bitbake 1.10.0.
>
> Any thoughts?

I don't know about the above, but as a related note, srctree is now
working.  I've not tested with a kernel recipe yet, but it has been
tested with qt and autotools recipes:

http://cgit.bec-systems.com/cgit.cgi/autotools-demo/tree/autotools-demo.bb
http://cgit.bec-systems.com/cgit.cgi/qt-overo-palo-gpio/tree/qt-overo-palo-gpio.bb

Thanks,
Cliff

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