create_distro_packages_list() in meta/lib/oe/distro_check.py crashes as soon as one distro's package list can't be fetched, so no distro package lists are written at all: WARNING: Cannot fetch packages for Debian: HTTP Error 404: Not Found File ".../meta/lib/oe/distro_check.py", line 173, in create_distro_packages_list bb.note("Distro: %s, Latest Release: %s, # src packages: %d" % (name, release, len(package_list))) UnboundLocalError: cannot access local variable 'release' where it is not associated with a value (OE-Core master, f32bced7b4, 2026-11-13.) Two problems: 1. When fetcher_func() raises, the except block only warns and then carries on using release and package_list, which were never set (or are left over from the previous distro). It should skip to the next distro ("continue") after the warning. 2. The Debian list currently always fails: get_latest_released_debian_source_package_list() fetches http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable-proposed-updates/main/source/Sources.gz which returns 404 (stable/main/source/Sources.gz still exists). The proposed-updates list should be optional, or fetched from where Debian now publishes it. This breaks the Recipe Reporting System's rrs_distros.py on the layer index, which calls create_distro_packages_list() to show which distros package each recipe.
Patches sent to openembedded-core, under review: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261114200810.31078-1-tim.orling@konsulko.com/ 1/3 lib/oe/distro_check: skip a distro whose package list can't be fetched 2/3 lib/oe/distro_check: fetch Debian updates from stable-updates 3/3 oeqa/selftest/oelib: add tests for oe.distro_check Patchwork series 53375 (patches 104067-104069).
Tested with the three patches from series 53375 on a layer index test instance (layers.moto-timo.net), running RRS's rrs_distros.py against OE-Core master (f32bced7b4) plus the patches: NOTE: Distro: Debian, Latest Release: 13.7, # src packages: 37593 NOTE: Distro: Ubuntu, Latest Release: xenial, # src packages: 3456 NOTE: Distro: Fedora, Latest Release: 45, # src packages: 23237 WARNING: Cannot fetch packages for openSUSE: HTTP Error 404: Not Found WARNING: Cannot fetch packages for Clear: <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution> The Debian list is fetched again, and the two distros that fail are now skipped with a warning instead of stopping the run, so the package lists for the other distros are written. The run also shows three separate problems, not covered by these patches: - Ubuntu is detected as "xenial": find_latest_ubuntu_release() takes the most recently modified *-updates directory, which is not the latest release. - The openSUSE Leap URLs return 404. - Clear Linux has been discontinued, so download.clearlinux.org no longer resolves.