Re: [OE-core] [dunfell][PATCH 1/2] bitbake: fetch2: fix handling of `\` in file:// SRC_URI

["Andrei Gherzan" <andrei@gherzan.com>]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, at 15:24, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-08-24 at 04:20 -1000, Steve Sakoman wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 3:53 AM Andrei Gherzan <andrei@gherzan.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > From: Leif Middelschulte <leif.middelschulte@klsmartin.com>
> > > 
> > > Using backslashes in file:// URIs was broken.
> > > Either the resolver would fail or the subsequent `cp` command.
> > > Try to avoid this by putting the filenames into quotes.
> > > 
> > > Fixes https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8161
> > > 
> > > (Bitbake rev: aa857fa2e9cf3b0e43a9049b04ec4b0b3c779b11)
> > 
> > Patches for bitbake should be sent to: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
> > 
> > I tried applying this patch, but found that it caused errors on the autobuilder:
> > 
> > https://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Build/129189/
> > 
> 
> We dropped wildcard support in master but that is still present in dunfell. That
> means we can't quote things as we are relying on expansion of the wildcards for
> some SRC_URIs. This could be difficult to fix with the compatibility constraints
> of an older release funfortunately :/.

Got it now. That's going to be painful indeed. I can't think of an easy way out of this either.

Andrei