Op 12 feb 2011, om 19:09 heeft Mark Hatle het volgende geschreven: > On 2/12/11 3:30 AM, Cui, Dexuan wrote: >> Hi Mark, >> As Liping said, the following change breaks building xorg-minimal-fonts as >> destdir is not correct. >> Can you please explain the actual different between cp and tar here? I think >> "cp -p" is similar to "tar -x -p" here? >> > > We can revert the change. But the reason for it is tar preserves hard links, > while cp does not.
The problem is that people can hit things like this: | NOTE: Unpacking /OE/tentacle/sources/angstrom-layers/BSP/TI/recipes-bsp/linux/linux-omap-psp-2.6.32/beagleboard/defconfig to /OE/tentacle/build/tmp-angstrom_2010_x/work/beagleboard-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/linux-omap-psp-2.6.32-r99+gitr5fc29e7b2a76a64a739f857858ef0b98294aa155/ | ERROR: Error executing a python function in /OE/tentacle/sources/angstrom-layers/BSP/TI/recipes-bsp/linux/linux-omap-psp_2.6.32.bb: | TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not str | | ERROR: The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was: | ERROR: File "base_do_unpack", line 19, in <module> | ERROR: | ERROR: File "base_do_unpack", line 14, in base_do_unpack | ERROR: | ERROR: File "/OE/tentacle/sources/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py", line 1015, in unpack | ERROR: ud.method.unpack(ud, root, self.d) | ERROR: | ERROR: File "/OE/tentacle/sources/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py", line 724, in unpack | ERROR: cmd = 'tar -cf - -C "%d" -ps . | tar -xf - -C "%s/%s/"' % (file, rootdir, destdir) | ERROR: | ERROR: The code that was being executed was: | ERROR: 0015: except bb.fetch2.BBFetchException, e: | ERROR: 0016: raise bb.build.FuncFailed(e) | ERROR: 0017: | ERROR: 0018: | ERROR: *** 0019:base_do_unpack(d) | ERROR: 0020: | ERROR: (file: 'base_do_unpack', lineno: 19, function: <module>) | ERROR: 0010: rootdir = bb.data.getVar('WORKDIR', localdata, True) | ERROR: 0011: | ERROR: 0012: try: | ERROR: 0013: fetcher = bb.fetch2.Fetch(src_uri, localdata) | ERROR: *** 0014: fetcher.unpack(rootdir) | ERROR: 0015: except bb.fetch2.BBFetchException, e: | ERROR: 0016: raise bb.build.FuncFailed(e) | ERROR: 0017: | ERROR: 0018: | ERROR: (file: 'base_do_unpack', lineno: 14, function: base_do_unpack) | ERROR: Function 'base_do_unpack' failed Not sure what triggers it, but it breaks my build. It could be entirely my own fault for having buggy recipes in a BSP :) regards, Koen _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto