Bug 14701

Summary:	convert-overrides.py breaks file links containing _
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Jan Claussen <Claussen.J>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Unassigned <unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, randy.macleod, richard.purdie
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	5.99
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Jan Claussen 2022-01-21 10:21:30 UTC

I have a recipes that uses a local file whose path contains a '_', which was converted to a ':'. This broke the recipe and a warning was printed saying that the file could not be fetched. I ignored the warning at first. During the first build everything seems to be fine, but on the second build a cache error occurs, which can only be fixed by deleting the tmp directory.

Here is the recipes that broke using the script:

https://pastebin.com/dwdig7wn

Comment 1 Randy MacLeod 2022-01-27 15:35:14 UTC

Could you send a patch to the list? This is meant as an aid to the transition so it's not expected to be perfect.

Comment 2 Jan Claussen 2022-01-28 10:08:11 UTC

I don't think that I will find the time any time soon. It would probably be better that the author of the script makes some changes. By looking at the script, I can see that the error occurred because there is an 'aarch64' sub-string included in the SRC_URI of this package. I think it would be best to somehow exclude strings in quotes from the conversion, so that only variable names, but not the values themselves are converted.

Comment 3 Randy MacLeod 2022-01-28 17:15:44 UTC

Thanks for the explanation. For now this is in the backlog since the dev team is stretched very thin.

Comment 4 Randy MacLeod 2023-10-30 15:37:24 UTC

Build move to 5.0 -- ../Randy

Comment 5 Randy MacLeod 2024-04-25 01:13:55 UTC

Bulk move of 5.0 medium importance issues to 5.99.
Move to 5.1 if you want to actively work on an issue.

Comment 6 Randy MacLeod 2024-04-25 01:23:12 UTC

Move to 5.99 since no one is actively working on this issue.
Move to 5.x if you start on a task, please.

Comment 7 Richard Purdie 2026-04-30 15:38:43 UTC

At this point most conversions have been done and we're unlikely to make further changes to the script.