Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] recipes-core: Add recipe for base-files

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Wed, 24 Feb 2021 03:40:48 -0800 (PST)
schrieb "vijaikumar....@gmail.com" <vijaikumar.kanagarajan@gmail.com>:

> On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 2:51:43 PM UTC+5:30 Jan Kiszka
> wrote:
> 
> > On 24.02.21 10:20, vijaikumar....@gmail.com wrote:   
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 2:11:02 PM UTC+5:30 
> > > vijaikumar....@gmail.com wrote: 
> > > 
> > > On Monday, February 22, 2021 at 6:10:08 PM UTC+5:30
> > > ami...@ilbers.de wrote: 
> > > 
> > > 19.02.2021 22:57, Vijai Kumar K wrote:   
> > > > /etc/os-release is a symlink to /usr/lib/os-release and   
> > > belongs to   
> > > > the base-files package. 
> > > > 
> > > > ISAR has been modifying the /etc/os-release during
> > > > postprocessing to inject custom data onto it. 
> > > > 
> > > > Since this file belongs to base-files, an update/reinstall of
> > > > the package would overwrite the file with the one provided by   
> > > base-files.   
> > > > 
> > > > Instead of modifying the contents of /etc/os-release during 
> > > > post-processing, provide a modified base-files recipe in ISAR   
> > > which   
> > > > provides the similar changes in os-release. 
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Vijai Kumar K <Vijaikumar_...@mentor.com>   
> > > 
> > > Hello, base-files package failed to build for qemuarm64-focal 
> > > target 
> > > during CI: 
> > > 
> > > 15:12:37    dh_strip 
> > > 15:12:37 aarch64-linux-gnu-objcopy: Unable to recognise the 
> > > format of 
> > > the input file `debian/base-files/usr/bin/locale-check' 
> > > 15:12:37 dh_strip: error: aarch64-linux-gnu-objcopy 
> > > --only-keep-debug 
> > > --compress-debug-sections debian/base-files/usr/bin/locale-check 
> > >   
> > debian/.debhelper/base-files/dbgsym-root/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/71/aa3df0a7e05817cb7e212513aeae7db21d8593.debug 
> >  
> > > 
> > > returned exit code 1 
> > > 15:12:37 dh_strip: error: Aborting due to earlier error 
> > > 15:12:37 make: *** [debian/rules:15: binary] Error 25 
> > > 15:12:37 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary 
> > > subprocess returned exit status 2 
> > > 15:12:37 WARNING: exit code 2 from a shell command. 
> > > 
> > > Full log: 
> > > http://ci.isar-build.org:8080/job/isar_am_devel_fast/89/console 
> > > <http://ci.isar-build.org:8080/job/isar_am_devel_fast/89/console> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thank you Anton, for quickly running this through our CI.  I will 
> > > try to replicate the issue in my local build and will fix it in
> > > next version. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This seems to be like a qemu issue. 
> > > https://www.mail-archive.com/debian...@lists.debian.org/msg59230.html
> > >   
> > <https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-glibc@lists.debian.org/msg59230.html>
> >   
> > > 
> > > We could work around it by setting ISAR_CROSS_COMPILE. But ubuntu 
> > > base-files cross compilation is failing. 
> > > That needs to be fixed first. Maybe should raise an issue in
> > > ubuntu. 
> >
> > Are we running qemu-user-static from bullseye here already? That is
> > what we do in kas-isar for a while.  
> 
> 
> Just now tried in kas. It works as expected. Maybe we might need to
> update ISAR
> docs to denote the need for the latest qemu? 
> 
> That leaves the cross-building issue.
> Raised a bug report in ubuntu for that.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1916714
> I will also see if I can send a patch for this. Till then we might
> need to disable
> ISAR_CROSS_COMPILE for base-files for ubuntu.

Nice to see those reports and doc updates coming out (vijai, please
send that doc patch)

But the general approach of this packages seems to be a dead end
https://groups.google.com/g/isar-users/c/maMS_p5Ep2o/m/lWSgTr7TAgAJ

Henning

> Thanks,
> Vijai Kumar K
>  
> 
> >
> >
> > Jan 
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