Bug 1140

Summary: Can't build update-rc.d if BB_NO_NETWORK=1
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Meta-yocto Reporter: Gary Thomas <gary>
Component: meta-yoctoAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, sgw
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 1.1 M3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description Gary Thomas 2011-06-06 11:42:34 UTC 
I get this error:

| ERROR: Function 'Network access disabled through BB_NO_NETWORK but access rquested with command git ls-remote git://github.com/philb/update-rc.d.git update-rc.d_0.7 (for url None)' failed
NOTE: package update-rc.d-native-0.7-r4: task do_fetch: Failed

but I have a suitable tarball staged for this SRC_URI.
Comment 1 Gary Thomas 2011-06-06 11:43:43 UTC 
More data:

$ ls -l /work/misc/Poky/sources/git*update-rc*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas 8386 May 24 07:59 /work/misc/Poky/sources/git2_github.com.philb.update-rc.d.git.tar.gz


If I disable BB_NO_NETWORK, the build succeeds but the tarball is unchanged,
so there is no reason it can't be built with BB_NO_NETWORK=1
Comment 2 Richard Purdie 2011-06-06 13:26:42 UTC 
This is actually kind of by design in the fetcher. The trouble is that recipe says "tag=<somename>" and that is not a revision. bitbake is being careful and using the remote repository to translate <somename> into a revision. A local repository might not be up to date.

Its certainly a corner case but I can see people reporting a bug if we didn't do this too so I'm not sure we can win :(
Comment 3 Gary Thomas 2011-06-06 15:03:50 UTC 
So how can I ship something to my customers to build that may have
no network connectivity?  To date, I've been able to cache/stage
all the relevant source files and provide those, but this seems
to break that :-(