trying to build a "hardware-bringup-image" defined in angstrom layer and running into:
ERROR: QA Issue: Fixup Perms: Unable to correct directory link, target already exists: /var/log -> /var/volatile/log ERROR: QA Issue: Fixup Perms: Unable to correct directory link, target already exists: /var/run -> /run ERROR: QA Issue: Fixup Perms: Unable to correct directory link, target already exists: /var/tmp -> /var/volatile/tmp this would *appear* to be because oe-core defines, in base-files_3.0.14.bb: volatiles = "log tmp" ... snip ... for d in ${volatiles}; do ln -sf volatile/$d ${D}${localstatedir}/$d done ln -snf ../run ${D}${localstatedir}/run ln -snf ../run/lock ${D}${localstatedir}/lock which seems to want to create /var/{run,log,tmp} as symlinks, but over in meta-angstrom, we have base-files_3.0.14.bbappend which seems to want to create them as actual directories instead: dirs755 += "${localstatedir}/cache \ ${localstatedir}/run \ ${localstatedir}/log \ ${localstatedir}/lock \ ${localstatedir}/lock/subsys \ ${localstatedir}/tmp \ ${localstatedir}/volatile/tmp \ /run \ " or am i misreading something? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core