Yocto master has got a lot of fixing around gitsm fetcher (particularly creation of symlinks seems to be gone), so if you could try that and report, that would be appreciated.
Alex On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 15:20, philippe gislard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Our use case is the following: > - We are building firmwares using yocto on machines that have no internet > access > - We have a mirror that we are feeding with tarballs generated by a > machine connected to internet > - We want to port our BSP to yocto thud > > Until now (we used krogoth) our mirror was operating properly. > > Since we switched to thud, the build systems is generating tarballs of > git repositories (i.e.: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good_1.14.imx.bb, from > freescale) containing symbolic links to git submodules (gstreamer > common). > The issue is that these symbolic links contain an absolute path which > is not portable on other machines. > > We fixed it by patching the yocto framework so it generates a relative > symbolic link instead. > > _We want to be sure is that is the proper way to fix the issue we are > facing for our use case_ > > You will find the patch we used at the end of this mail. > > Thank you. > > From 456bc347c38039006619c0e95831cb4faf4d8c49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Philippe GISLARD <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 10:03:43 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Change the git submodule symbolic link from absolute to > relative in order to allow sharing the downloaded packages between different > build machines > > Signed-off-by: Philippe GISLARD <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Fabien MICAELLI <[email protected]> > --- > bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/gitsm.py | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/gitsm.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/gitsm.py > index 35729db..009b2af 100644 > --- a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/gitsm.py > +++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/gitsm.py > @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ class GitSM(Git): > os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(symlink_path), exist_ok=True) > except OSError: > pass > - os.symlink(local_paths[module], symlink_path) > + os.symlink(os.path.relpath(local_paths[module], > os.path.dirname(symlink_path)), symlink_path) > > return True > > -- > 2.7.4 > > -- > Philippe GISLARD > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
