Re: [PATCH 0/1]package_rpm.bbclass: remove xx.spec before doing rpmbuild xx.src.rpm

[Bian Naimeng <biannm@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Hi Paul,

said the following on 2013-7-13 1:07:, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Bian,
> 
> On Friday 12 July 2013 10:04:56 Bian Naimeng wrote:
>> said the following on 2013-7-11 18:54:, Burton, Ross wrote:
>>> On 10 July 2013 03:56, Bian Naimeng <biannm@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>>> Sorry, it looks like i should post this patch to poky. please ignore this
>>>
>>> You were right the first time, meta/ is oe-core. :)
>>
>> Thanks for your reminding.
>>
>> In this case, the following error will be caught.
>>
>>    | error: Bad owner/group:  .../tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/.../xxx.spec
>>    | Building target platforms: i586-poky-linux
>>    | 
>>    | RPM build errors:
>>    |     Bad owner/group: .../tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/.../xxx.spec
>>
>> The following bb file can cause this error.
>> # cat xxx.bb
>>   SRC_URI="..../xxx.src.rpm"
>>
>>   do_unpack2 () {
>>           cd ${WORKDIR}
>>           tar zxvf xxx.tar.gz
>>   }
>>   addtask do_unpack2 after do_unpack before do_configure
>>
>> Of course, we can walk around it by append "extract=xxx.tar.gz" to SRC_URI,
>> but it's not good way when the xxx.src.rpm containing lots of necessary
>> files.
> 
> Wouldn't using subdir=xyz in the SRC_URI entry put the contents of the rpm 
> into a subdirectory and thus avoid this problem?
> 

Thanks for your suggestion.
Yes, it's can avoid this problem.

But, why we don't remove the xxx.spec file before doing rpmbuild xx.src.rpm if it's existed.
The old xxx.spec is unuseful.

In my opinion, it can make the bb file easier and clean than using subdir=xyz in the SRC_URI

Thanks,
 Bian

> Cheers,
> Paul
>