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

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

On Mon, 2025-04-07 at 14:09 +0300, 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')
>  
> 

Just to follow up on this, I'm reluctant to merge this as it will "live
forever" without people understanding why it is there. We really need
to get to the bottom of the underlying issue.

Cheers,

Richard