Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] oeqa wic.py: clean image build dir before rebuild in test_permissions()

[Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>]

On Mon 2025-04-07 @ 02:09:45 PM, Mikko Rapeli via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> The test builds images using wic and then with bitbake
> and compares results. This fails at least on aarch64
> build machine and multiple target machines due to
> pseudo errors. Fix by cleaning the build recipe
> build directory before rebuild.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>
> ---
>  meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
> index 4f5d43b5ee..55c655cd6d 100644
> --- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
> +++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
> @@ -674,6 +674,7 @@ part /etc --source rootfs --fstype=ext4 --change-directory=etc
>  
>                  config = 'IMAGE_FSTYPES += "wic"\nWKS_FILE = "%s"\n' % wks_file
>                  self.append_config(config)
> +                bitbake('-c clean core-image-minimal')
>                  bitbake('core-image-minimal')
>                  tmpdir = os.path.join(get_bb_var('WORKDIR', 'core-image-minimal'),'build-wic')
>  

I have seen this issue too, but it is intermittent for me; is this an
intermittent issue with you as well? This feels a lot more like a hack rather
than a solution.