Bug 5363 - base_get_metadata_svn_revision fails with IndexError
Summary: base_get_metadata_svn_revision fails with IndexError
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium normal
Target Milestone: 1.5.1
Assignee: Richard Purdie
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Reported: 2013-10-17 18:14 UTC by Pablo Vasquez
Modified: 2013-11-25 14:58 UTC (History)
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Description Pablo Vasquez 2013-10-17 18:14:58 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Pablo Vasquez

        

        
        

        
          2013-10-17 18:21:52 UTC
        

      






When using svn client version 1.8 to check out a working copy of poky, bitbake meta-toolchain-qte will fail with:

ERROR: Failure expanding variable METADATA_REVISION, expression was ${@base_detect_revision(d)} which triggered exception IndexError: list index out of range

Seems like base_get_metadata_svn_revision is expecting .svn/entries to be at least 3 lines long, which is not the case for svn v1.8 (and probably 1.6 and 1.7).

As a workaround, the working copy can be exported, or checked out with an older svn client version.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Richard Purdie

        

        
        

        
          2013-11-22 15:08:18 UTC
        

      






I don't know how we get the version correctly in modern subversion, nor am I particularly keen to figure it out. I've sent out a patch to stop the crashes though.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Richard Purdie

        

        
        

        
          2013-11-25 14:58:33 UTC
        

      






The crash is resolved with http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=b62bdbd135d3c2cf02b62d68e46b76a5ccda3331

If you want the versioning to work with newer suversions, please send a patch for it. We're happy to improve it, equally I don't anyone using subversion for this so it makes it hard to find anyone to fix it.