See the output below. Basically, the "TEST: foo" lines are my debug prints for the destdir itself. The files exist as expected, so we thought this would be a permission issue maybe. I have not tracked it down that much. All I can say, I have taken a look at the bb.copyfile internals, but that looks sane to me, and it tries to catch all the errors possible. I am using dylan 9.0.1 as you can see the folder names below. Also, I am using debian wheezy (7.0) in a 32 bit "system-nspawn". WARNING: TEST: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/armv5te-foo-linux-gnueabi/kmod/9-r0.0/license-destdir/kmod WARNING: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0 could not be copied for some reason. It may not exist. WARN for now. WARNING: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/meta/files/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1 could not be copied for some reason. It may not exist. WARN for now. WARNING: TEST: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/armv5te-foo-linux-gnueabi/pciutils/3.1.10-r0/license-destdir/pciutils WARNING: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0 could not be copied for some reason. It may not exist. WARN for now. WARNING: TEST: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/armv5te-foo-linux-gnueabi/util-linux/2.22.2-r3/license-destdir/util-linux WARNING: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0 could not be copied for some reason. It may not exist. WARN for now. WARNING: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/meta/files/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1 could not be copied for some reason. It may not exist. WARN for now. WARNING: TEST: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/libxslt-native/1.1.28-r0/license-destdir/libxslt-native WARNING: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/meta/files/common-licenses/MIT could not be copied for some reason. It may not exist. WARN for now. WARNING: TEST: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/armv5te-foo-linux-gnueabi/usbutils/006-r0/license-destdir/usbutils WARNING: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0 could not be copied for some reason. It may not exist. WARN for now. WARNING: /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/meta/files/common-licenses/BSD could not be copied for some reason. It may not exist. WARN for now.
You can see the stat output for a few of those below. The seem to match a pattern: stat /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/armv5te-foo-linux-gnueabi/kmod/9-r0.0/license-destdir/kmod File: `/home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/armv5te-foo-linux-gnueabi/kmod/9-r0.0/license-destdir/kmod' Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 5521419 Links: 2 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ lpapp) Gid: ( 1000/ lpapp) Access: 2013-10-02 14:54:56.681623564 +0100 Modify: 2013-10-02 14:54:56.678290230 +0100 Change: 2013-10-02 14:54:56.678290230 +0100 Birth: - lpapp ~/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build $ lpapp ~/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build $ stat /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/armv5te-foo-linux-gnueabi/pciutils/3.1.10-r0/license-destdir/pciutils File: `/home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/armv5te-foo-linux-gnueabi/pciutils/3.1.10-r0/license-destdir/pciutils' Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 6051992 Links: 2 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ lpapp) Gid: ( 1000/ lpapp) Access: 2013-10-02 14:54:56.734956895 +0100 Modify: 2013-10-02 14:54:56.731623563 +0100 Change: 2013-10-02 14:54:56.731623563 +0100 Birth: - lpapp ~/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build $ stat /home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/armv5te-foo-linux-gnueabi/util-linux/2.22.2-r3/license-destdir/util-linux File: `/home/lpapp/Projects/Yocto/poky-dylan-9.0.1/build/tmp/work/armv5te-foo-linux-gnueabi/util-linux/2.22.2-r3/license-destdir/util-linux' Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 4880997 Links: 2 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ lpapp) Gid: ( 1000/ lpapp) Access: 2013-10-02 14:54:56.921623555 +0100 Modify: 2013-10-02 14:54:56.918290221 +0100 Change: 2013-10-02 14:54:56.918290221 +0100 Birth: -
We replaced the print statements inside bb.copyfile to bb.warn with Ross, and then it seems we get a bit more information. It seems that the chmod/own execution fails. I am not sure why. "find . -not `whoami`" did not return anything, so every file should be owned by the user.
I sent a patch to oe-core that changes the use of bb.utils.copyfile in license.bbclass to shutil.copyfile which avoids this problem by not chowning anything. I expect it will apply cleanly to dylan.
That sounds like a good idea to me, thanks.
This patch was integrated as oe-core dc81df215cc94c279991df35125d94770a1bc3d2, closing.
Thanks, Ross!