[OE-core] Modifying SRC_URI from anonymous python

[Andre McCurdy]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Christopher Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a supplier who provides recipes which set SRC_URI to their
>> private git servers. To make those same recipes usable by others (ie
>> me), some anonymous python is used to transform the default SRC_URI
>> (elements which contain private git URLs are replaced, patches and
>> other files are left as-is).
>>
>> This apparently worked in OE 2.0 but from 2.1 onwards the anonymous
>> python which modifies SRC_URI races with the anonymous python in
>> base.bbclass which parses SRC_URI to determine additional
>> do_fetch/do_unpack dependencies and whether or not to call
>> fetch2.get_srcrev(). Specifically I get failures because
>> fetch2.get_srcrev() sees the original SRC_URI and tries to resolve
>> AUTOREV from a repo to which I don't have access.
>
> You might want to try using a RecipePreFinalise event handler instead, they
> run before anonymous python functions do.

Thanks, that works.

(For the benefit of anyone else who may try copying and pasting the
example from the bitbake user manual, the correct eventmask is
"bb.event.RecipePreFinalise" rather than
"bb.build.RecipePreFinalise").

> --
> Christopher Larson
> clarson at kergoth dot com
> Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> Maintainer - Tslib
> Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics