[poky] SRC checksum checking broken

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-05-13 06:39, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 16:14 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2012-04-17 15:20, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 10:59 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> On 2012-04-17 10:19, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>> Well, it seems that the checksums are encouraged, if not required, these days.
>>>> I was just making sure that they actually work&   in my opinion, it shouldn't
>>>> matter how you got the file, the checksums should still be checked and match.
>>>
>>> You can argue this both ways. I'm leaning that direction although it has
>>> its risks.
>>>
>>>> Sadly, this is much worse.  It even [somehow] reached "through" my
>>>> mirror setup and deleted the file on the backing store (i.e. the
>>>> file /work/misc/Poky/sources/busybox-1.19.4.tar.bz2 gets deleted
>>>> when the checksum fails even though it's part of the own-mirror)
>>>
>>> Was that the only issue? I can see how it managed to do that, I agree it
>>> shouldn't :/.
>>
>> It sort of worked - at least it didn't pass silently - but the messages
>> don't say why it failed.  Here's what I get:
>>
>> NOTE: package busybox-1.19.4-r2: task do_fetch: Started
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.19.4.tar.bz2;name=tarball
>> ERROR: Fetcher failure: Fetch command export HOME="/home/gthomas"; export GIT_CONFIG="/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/etc/gitconfig"; export
>> PATH="/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi:/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/beagleboard/usr/bin/crossscripts:/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/sbin:/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin:/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/sbin:/home/local/poky_test/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux//bin:/home/local/poky-master/scripts:/home/local/poky-master/bitbake/bin/:/opt/amltd/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_10/bin:/home/gthomas/Android/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.1_r1/tools:/home/gthomas/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/local/poky-master/scripts";
>> /usr/bin/env wget -t 5 -nv --passive-ftp --no-check-certificate -P /home/local/poky_test/downloads 'http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.19.4.tar.bz2' could not be run:
>> None
>> ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.19.4.tar.bz2;name=tarball'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.
>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/local/poky_test/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/busybox-1.19.4-r2/temp/log.do_fetch.7907
>> NOTE: package busybox-1.19.4-r2: task do_fetch: Failed
>> ERROR: Task 2 (/home/local/poky-master/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.19.4.bb, do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'
>> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 8 tasks of which 7 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.
>>
>> No indication of checksum failures anywhere.
>
> Having gone over this several times, I think the original patch is
> correct but it highlights some other issues. The nastiest of those is
> the deletion of files. I think I've found a way of fixing that by
> correctly using fetcher clean functions (which are null operations for
> the local fetcher).
>
> The remaining issue is then one of better output from the fetcher as
> there wasn't enough info in the above logs but that is really a separate
> problem.
>
> I've sent out several fetcher patches to the bitbake list which will
> hopefully address some of these issues. I'm travelling at the moment and
> these were written without internet access so my testing is limited to
> the local file:// urls but I'm confident they move things in the right
> direction.

Is there something I should check wrt this problem?  A bitbake URL/version?

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
------------------------------------------------------------