Re: [PATCH 43/44] base-files: do not write the current date into /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net

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

On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 13:24 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> This is causing a problem in multilib where base-files and lib64/32-
> base-files
> clash because they may have different dates. Also, if the package is
> coming
> from sstate it has an incorrect date anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
> b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
> index d1380053115..c7a9e803cb1 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
> @@ -145,8 +145,9 @@ do_install_basefilesissue () {
>  		printf "${DISTRO_NAME} " >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue
>  		printf "${DISTRO_NAME} " >>
> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue.net
>  		if [ -n "${DISTRO_VERSION}" ]; then
> -			printf "${DISTRO_VERSION} " >>
> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue
> -			printf "${DISTRO_VERSION} " >>
> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue.net
> +			distro_version_nodate=${@'${DISTRO_VERSION}'
> .replace('snapshot-${DATE}','snapshot').replace('${DATE}','')}
> +			printf "%s " $distro_version_nodate >>
> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue
> +			printf "%s " $distro_version_nodate >>
> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue.net
>  		fi
>  		printf "\\\n \\\l\n" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue
>  		echo >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue


https://autobuilder.yocto.io/builders/nightly-oe-selftest/builds/213/steps/Running%20oe-selftest/logs/stdio

You probably need a vardepsexclude on DATE here...

Cheers,

Richard