Bug 1383 - Prevent hob running without pre and post files
Summary: Prevent hob running without pre and post files
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Hob
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: hob (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium normal
Target Milestone: 1.1
Assignee: Joshua Lock - Disabled
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Reported: 2011-08-18 11:04 UTC by Joshua Lock - Disabled
Modified: 2011-09-20 15:18 UTC (History)
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Description Joshua Lock - Disabled 2011-08-18 11:04:37 UTC 
If hob is run directly (bitbake -u hob) changes are written to the local.conf file directly and some of the changes we write cause an infinite recursion error at parse time (namely setting of BBFILES.

bb.data_smart.ExpansionError: Failure expanding variable None, expression was ${BBFILES} /tmp/hob-images/*.bb which triggered exception RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

We either need to:
a) Fix hob to work without the separate conf file
b) warn when the separate conf file is not specified and don't run
Comment 1 Jessica 2011-08-18 16:11:40 UTC 
I'd think we need to enforce using the separate conf file if user want to use hob
Comment 2 Joshua Lock - Disabled 2011-09-01 15:41:02 UTC 
bug 1441 is the correct way to handle this long term and will fix the issue of not being able to run without the wrapper script, short term we need to work around this and should likely error if the pre and post files aren't specified.
Comment 4 Joshua Lock - Disabled 2011-09-20 15:18:15 UTC 
Fixed