Re: SRC checksum checking broken

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2012-04-17 15:20, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 10:59 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2012-04-17 10:19, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> Well, it seems that the checksums are encouraged, if not required, these days.
>> I was just making sure that they actually work&  in my opinion, it shouldn't
>> matter how you got the file, the checksums should still be checked and match.
>
> You can argue this both ways. I'm leaning that direction although it has
> its risks.
>
>> Sadly, this is much worse.  It even [somehow] reached "through" my
>> mirror setup and deleted the file on the backing store (i.e. the
>> file /work/misc/Poky/sources/busybox-1.19.4.tar.bz2 gets deleted
>> when the checksum fails even though it's part of the own-mirror)
>
> Was that the only issue? I can see how it managed to do that, I agree it
> shouldn't :/.

It sort of worked - at least it didn't pass silently - but the messages
don't say why it failed.  Here's what I get:

NOTE: package busybox-1.19.4-r2: task do_fetch: Started
WARNING: Failed to fetch URL http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.19.4.tar.bz2;name=tarball
ERROR: Fetcher failure: Fetch command export HOME="/home/gthomas"; export GIT_CONFIG="/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/etc/gitconfig"; export 
PATH="/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi:/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/beagleboard/usr/bin/crossscripts:/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/sbin:/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin:/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/sbin:/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux//bin:/home/local/poky-master/scripts:/home/local/poky-master/bitbake/bin/:/opt/amltd/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_10/bin:/home/gthomas/Android/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.1_r1/tools:/home/gthomas/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/local/poky-master/scripts"; 
/usr/bin/env wget -t 5 -nv --passive-ftp --no-check-certificate -P /home/local/poky_test/downloads 'http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.19.4.tar.bz2' could not be run:
None
ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.19.4.tar.bz2;name=tarball'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/local/poky_test/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/busybox-1.19.4-r2/temp/log.do_fetch.7907
NOTE: package busybox-1.19.4-r2: task do_fetch: Failed
ERROR: Task 2 (/home/local/poky-master/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.19.4.bb, do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 8 tasks of which 7 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.

No indication of checksum failures anywhere.

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