Bug 16481

Summary: AB-INT: BBPATH contains duplicate entries: bitbake/lib/bb/tests/parse-tests
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake Reporter: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand>
Component: bitbakeAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Undecided CC: poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 0.0.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: AB-INT
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Mathieu Dubois-Briand 2026-11-02 07:36:06 UTC 
As we merged a patch erroring on duplicate entries in BBPATH, we now have some intermittent errors:

https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/commit/?id=74128534302fbf8164ade07b200b90b731caa0ad

FAIL: test_duplicate_bbpath (bb.tests.parse.ParseTest.test_duplicate_bbpath) (dup='/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/layers/bitbake/lib/bb/tests/parse-tests')
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/layers/bitbake/lib/bb/tests/parse.py", line 554, in test_duplicate_bbpath
    self.assertIn("BBPATH contains duplicate entries:\n    %s %s\n" % (bbpath, dup), result.stdout)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 'BBPATH contains duplicate entries:\n    /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/layers/bitbake/lib/bb/tests/parse-tests /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-fedora/build/layers/bitbake/lib/bb/tests/parse-tests\n' not found in ''
Comment 1 Mathieu Dubois-Briand 2026-11-02 07:45:51 UTC 
oe-selftest-fedora alma8-vk-2 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-11-01 15:11:41+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/4983/steps/15/logs/stdio

oe-selftest-fedora alma8-vk-1 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-28 10:03:44+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/4958/steps/15/logs/stdio

oe-selftest-fedora alma8-vk-2 master-next completed at 2026-10-29 16:31:19+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/4969/steps/15/logs/stdio

oe-selftest-armhost alma10-vk-arm1 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-11-01 14:20:29+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/23/builds/5198/steps/14/logs/stdio