[OE-core] [PATCH] Fix recursive mode -st on BUILDDIR setup

[Alex Franco]

Yes, I agree and in fact the patch is just now shipping

Alex Franco

On 09/03/2015 04:43 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 03:01:20PM -0500, Alex Franco wrote:
>> Hello Martin, so the error you are seeing is related to the chmodding
>> being done in sanity.bbclass, not the chmodding taking place in
>> oe-setup-builddir. I am adding a catch and a warning for that, as I
>> reproduce your setup so I can also reproduce the OSError.
> Thanks.
>
> My point was that even when such setup isn't safe from reasons other
> people mentioned, the sanity.bbclass shouldn't fail with OSError
> exception.
>
> And as the issue isn't fatal for the build (I was using setup like this
> for very long time and haven't noticed host-permissions-contamination
> from this yet), then I would prefer just bbwarn instead of bbfatal - in
> both cases is should show clear message what's wrong and what user
> should do about it instead of OSError and user having to read
> sanity.bbclass to see what and why failed.
>
> Regards,
>
>> Alex
>>
>> On 09/02/2015 07:57 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
>>> Warning informing that chmod failed is better than fatal error
>>> preventing me to build anything in that setup with tmpfs.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Alex Franco
>>> <alejandro.franco at linux.intel.com
>>> <mailto:alejandro.franco at linux.intel.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      Checking may be the better approach, as warning here would do
>>>      little more than what the current failure does (informing that
>>>      chmod failed)
>>>
>>>      Alex Franco
>>>
>>>
>>>      On 09/02/2015 01:25 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
>>>
>>>          On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 06:51:23PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>
>>>              On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 11:36 -0500, Alex Franco wrote:
>>>
>>>                  Removing recursive option from chmod -st on BUILDDIR
>>>                  as it would
>>>                  take very long on existing build directories
>>>
>>>                  [YOCTO 7669]
>>>
>>>                  Signed-off-by: Alex Franco
>>>                  <alejandro.franco at linux.intel.com
>>>                  <mailto:alejandro.franco at linux.intel.com>>
>>>                  ---
>>>                    scripts/oe-setup-builddir | 2 +-
>>>                    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>>                  diff --git a/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
>>>                  b/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
>>>                  index f5b7e4e..44c7dcc 100755
>>>                  --- a/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
>>>                  +++ b/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
>>>                  @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ if [ -z "$BUILDDIR" ]; then
>>>                    fi
>>>                      mkdir -p "$BUILDDIR/conf"
>>>                  -chmod -R -st "$BUILDDIR"
>>>                  +chmod -st "$BUILDDIR"
>>>
>>>              I think you did this so that conf/ gets the right
>>>              permissions too.
>>>              Perhaps the best approach is:
>>>
>>>              +chmod -st "$BUILDDIR" $BUILDDIR/conf"
>>>
>>>          Can we add "|| bbwarn foo"
>>>
>>>          for cases when it doesn't work for whatever reason or check the
>>>          permissions of these 2 dirs before calling chmod?
>>>
>>>              ?
>>>
>>>              Cheers,
>>>
>>>              Richard
>>>
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