Bug 9175

Summary:	Remove os.chdir from fetch/unpack logic
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Ross Burton 2016-02-26 11:11:49 UTC

Using chdir in the fetcher is problematic, for example uninative uses Fetch.download() directly and has to save/restore cwd.

We should audit the fetch and unpack code to ensure that absolute paths are used and there are no assumptions about cwd.

To ensure that tarballs have the right paths in -C can be passed instead of using chdir.

Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2016-09-16 16:56:32 UTC

This was cleaned up as part of http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=ab09541d5517da9b1a23923ea8f5c26ddf745084 and some of the surrounding patches.