Re: dpkg-raw git fetch

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 10.03.20 16:36, [ext] Henning Schild wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 08:08:27 -0700
> <cedric_hombourger@mentor.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Monday, March 9, 2020 at 5:59:40 PM UTC+1, Henning Schild wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:08:10 +0000
>>> "[ext] sven.sc...@siemens.com <javascript:>"
>>> <sven.sc...@siemens.com <javascript:>>
>>> wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm a little bit confused. In the task unpack the SRC_URI files
>>>> will be put into WORKDIR
>>>>    
>>> https://github.com/ilbers/isar/blob/f3d50cfb9b7a5740c6dd11ee58fc4ba1a1815eca/meta/classes/base.bbclass#L182
>>>    
>>>>
>>>> But in the next task S (workdir/git) will be cleared.
>>>>    
>>> https://github.com/ilbers/isar/blob/f3d50cfb9b7a5740c6dd11ee58fc4ba1a1815eca/meta/classes/dpkg-raw.bbclass#L15
>>>    
>>>>
>>>> Should I understand why ${S} will be cleard before do_install is
>>>> called?
>>>
>>> I think you might have found an issue with the distinction of S and
>>> D. In fact they should be different folders but for dpkg-raw they
>>> are not. I think also the debianize class does not clearly
>>> distinguish them.
>>>
>>>   
>> I coincidentally ran into the same issue yesterday and yes debianize
>> assumes all the work should be done in ${S}
>> should debianize expose a DEBIANIZE_DIR defaulting to ${S} and let
>> dpkg-raw set it to ${D} instead?
> 
> Unfortunately bitbake/oe lack good descriptions of the two. But those
> can be found here:
> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/ and probably
> also in FreeBSD
> 
> That means that debianization should be done on S, not D.
> 
> And OE also has 'D = "${WORKDIR}/image"', which seems to be missing in
> Isar.

OK, now I'm running into the same mess, wondering why some recipe was 
carrying a patch that targeted the installation dir, rather than the 
source (which broke randomly).

Do you have the patch for this issue already?

Jan

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