Re: [PATCH] gconf.bbclass: make postinstall fail silently when running offline

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

On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 13:57 +0200, Laurentiu Palcu wrote:
> Gconf backend does not accept special characters in configuration source
> addresses. When populating SDK target sysroot from core-image-sato, for
> example, the configuration source address contains "1.3+snapshot" in it
> and '+' is an invalid character. Thus, gconftool-2 will fail and the
> build will stop at do_rootfs because the log contains the "ERROR"
> string.
> 
> Since failing offline will postpone the postinstall execution for
> target's first boot, we can silently fail here, so the build can
> complete.
> 
> [YOCTO #3893]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Palcu <laurentiu.palcu@intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/gconf.bbclass |   10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Just to be clear, I think we need to patch gconf to fix this, there is
no good reason it shouldn't be handling the + character (unless you've
found one I don't know about). Hiding stderr is a recipe for problems in
future and we want these postinstalls to run at build time.

Cheers,

Richard