Re: OpenEmbedded Layer Index autobuild errors

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2017-03-19 10:30, Max Krummenacher wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am Sonntag, den 19.03.2017, 00:28 -0400 schrieb Daniel Dickinson:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since it wasn't clear from my last posting about this issue, that the
>> issued described was that the recipe parsing for the three pre-alpha
>> layers I submitted recently triggered an error condition (missing
>> HOSTTOOLS) which isn't something that's an issue with the layer or
>> recipes (or so I'm given to understand), I'm reposing the error message
>> and this request for the hosts to get the necessary packages so the
>> layer index can be updated.
>>
>> Layers are:
>>
>> meta-cshored - small distro along the lines of poky-tiny but for
>> read-only-rootfs and taking advantage of the following layers:
>>
>> meta-earlyinit - instead of initramfs run 'earlyinit' to prepare things
>> for the main init and which runs from the kerne-mounted rootfs.
>>
>> meta-runit-init - use busybox 'runit' commands as the main init.
>>
>>
>> The error message is:
>>
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "update_layer.py", line 716, in <module>
>>     main()
>>   File "update_layer.py", line 216, in main
>>     (tinfoil, tempdir) = recipeparse.init_parser(settings, branch, bitbakepath,
>> nocheckout=options.nocheckout, logger=logger)
>>   File "/opt/layerindex/layerindex/recipeparse.py", line 75, in init_parser
>>     tinfoil = utils.setup_tinfoil(bitbakepath, enable_tracking)
>>   File "/opt/layerindex/layerindex/utils.py", line 144, in setup_tinfoil
>>     tinfoil.prepare(config_only = True)
>>   File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/tinfoil.py", line 210, in prepare
>>     extrafeatures)
>>   File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/main.py", line 517, in setup_bitbake
>>     server = start_server(servermodule, configParams, configuration, featureset)
>>   File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/main.py", line 357, in start_server
>>     cooker = bb.cooker.BBCooker(configuration, features)
>>   File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 195, in __init__
>>     self.initConfigurationData()
>>   File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 358, in initConfigurationData
>>     self.databuilder.parseBaseConfiguration()
>>   File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/cookerdata.py", line 299, in parseBaseConfiguration
>>     raise bb.BBHandledException
>> bb.BBHandledException
>> ERROR: The following required tools (as specified by HOSTTOOLS) appear to be unavailable in PATH,
>> please install them in order to proceed:
>>   cpio chrpath gawk diffstat makeinfo
>
> This recent commit tries to hide host applications which should not be used by recipes as they
> should be provided from their -native packages (from DEPENDS) during the build.
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=fa764a403da34bb0ca9fa3767a9e9dba8d685965
>
> With that change all tools which must be installed on the host need to be present, even if in your
> use case some of them might not be used.
> Did you install the prerequisites?
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2.1/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#required-packages-for-the-host-dev
> elopment-system

The real point is that it's not his host - it's the [remote]
autobuilder tool for OpenEmbedded (IIRC)

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