Re: [OE-core][dunfell 00/28] Patch review - pseudo file mode corruption fix series

Erik Boto
2020-12-22T14:57:24Z

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 2:50 PM Paul Barker <pbarker@konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 10:03, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2020-12-22 at 10:08 +0100, Erik Boto wrote:
> > > There's a bug affecting wic in combination with --exclude-path /
> > > --include-path that would then be backported into the LTS version.
> > > See
> > > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14129.
> > >
> > > Maybe the issue that is being fixed is more serious then the issue
> > > being introduced so it's a valid trade-off, I just wanted to mention
> > > it so it's known.
> >
> > I've been suggesting Steve hold off this until we sorted out master,
> > having a patch queue ready is helpful though so we don't lose track of
> > all the patches.
> >
> > There were some fixes from Peter/Paul around pseudo which we needed and
> > have now merged which leaves the above issue...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Richard
>
> Looking at that bug (#14129) I wonder why "${WORKDIR}/build-wic" was
> added to PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS in
> https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=ad8f5532ffaead9a5ad13e1034fe9e5e1b7979f4.
> Is anything likely to explode if we drop that addition?

Yes, if you try to build an image a second time it breaks and you have
to "bitbake -c clean <image>" in order to build it successfully again.
I don't recall the exact error at this time, but it was related to the
partition files wic created under build-wic.

Cheers,
Erik

>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Paul Barker
> Konsulko Group