Hi I was writing a bitbake recipe for a project hosted on a git-server. I applied subpath in order to limit the checkout to a specific directory.
When I ran the recipe it failed in do_fetch (or do_unpack) complaining about missing files. It had deleted the entire Yocto directory and selected directories from my home-dir like ssh-keys, my dir where I keep my code, and some configuration files for Thunderbird and my terminal. Since I had no Yocto directory left I was unable to debug the recipe. After restoring everything I re-created the recipe, this time I also saved a copy of the recipe at a safe location. At the end of the path given to subpath I had added a '/' as it was not specified what the format of the path should be. I figured I would see an error if the path was wrong, and technically I did. Essentially the SRC_URI looked like this: SRC_URI = "git://git@<server+repo>;protocol=ssh;subpath=path/" Running the recipe resulted in do_fetch (or do_unpack) failing again and complaining about missing files. This time the deletion was on a much greater scale, it had deleted so much of my home-dir that my user account was rendered entirely useless. The fastest way to recover this time was re-installing the machine. I was keeping bitbake in my home-dir both of these times. The poky version I am using is Daisy. Best regards // John Ernberg -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
