Bug 9889

Summary: cvs is required to be installed on host to support cvs SRC_URI
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen>
Component: devtools / tool chainAssignee: Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: mark.hatle, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, poky.doc.watcher, poky.watcher, randy.macleod, ross.burton, sgw, srifenbark
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: 2.2 M4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: 29 July 2016: Set documentation flag to "No"
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Chen Qi 2016-07-07 07:16:38 UTC 
If cvs is not installed, building rpm_5.4+cvs.bb would fail.

WARNING: rpm-5.4+cvs-r0 do_fetch: Failed to fetch URL cvs://anonymous@rpm5.org/cvs;tag=rpm-5_4;module=rpm, attempting MIRRORS if available
ERROR: rpm-5.4+cvs-r0 do_fetch: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 127, output:
/usr/bin/env: cvs: No such file or directory

ERROR: rpm-5.4+cvs-r0 do_fetch: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'cvs://anonymous@rpm5.org/cvs;tag=rpm-5_4;module=rpm'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.

Should we state cvs as a required software in QuickStart?
Comment 1 Ross Burton 2016-07-07 15:01:05 UTC 
Or, remove that recipe so there's no cvs recipes in oe-core.
Comment 2 Scott Rifenbark 2016-07-11 23:10:13 UTC 
Hi, 

I changed the doc flag to "Don't Know" here as it looks like depending on which track you take the docs might or might not be affected.  Let me know if we want to require this package or if we are going to remove the recipe.

Thanks, 
Scott
Comment 3 Ross Burton 2016-07-12 08:09:54 UTC 
Mark, would removing the RPM recipe that fetched from CVS be a problem for you, or do you usually work on tarballs and patches instead of upstream's CVS directly?
Comment 4 Ross Burton 2016-07-26 16:28:40 UTC 
oe-core 0cb5c06ea12c9070f19045cc82fc6276bfad3970 removed the RPM recipe that fetched from cvs, so there's no more CVS-fetching recipes in oe-core.
Comment 5 Scott Rifenbark 2016-07-29 21:25:19 UTC 
Setting the doc flag to "No" as it looks like the need disappeared. 

Scott