Created attachment 2237 [details] Log file for the build. Can't continue Hob, because of net-tools can't do_patch it. Did this multiple times, still the same outcome. The only change I made was add the smart package manager to the list of to-build packages.
Can you also provide the logfile from the original failure, located here: /home/john/Develop/poky/build/tmp/work/core2-32-poky-linux/net-tools/1.60-25-r0/temp/log.do_patch.22287 Then please try running the following from the command line instead of with in hob and report the results: bitbake -c patch net-tools bitbake -c clean net-tools bitbake -c patch net-tools This attempting to reproduce what hob is going but just with net-tools not the rest of the system. The first one may or may not fail, that's what I want to determine. If the second one fails you might have some other setup issue. If the second one does fail, please provide it's log file also.
Alright, I got an error at the first try with the patch command but then after I cleaned it and ran the patch command again it was fine. I haven't ran the build again with hob....yet. Also I read your comment wrong so I actually did 4 steps instead: update--->patch--->clean--->patch I have also attached the log your requested with the log of the steps you have requested.
Created attachment 2246 [details] Log file for do_patch
Created attachment 2247 [details] Output for update, patch, clean, patch bitbake -c update net-tools (Could not retrieve URL) bitbake -c patch net-tools (Error Found) bitbake -c clean net-tools (Completed) bitbake -c patch net-tools (Completed)
Saul, It appears the NEEDINFO should be cleared.
So a clean followed by the patch worked, I am still unclear about your failure since you seem to have patch files that are not part of 1.7, also "update" is not a a task in bitbake so it just gave you an error. The Warning for net-tools was the tarball was not found in the upstream, but was found in the mirror. If you run bitbake -c patch again back to back, do you get the failure again? It seems net-tools is one of the few with a special patch function.
Ah, Okay. Well seems that it's not throwing errors when I run it back to back. I have several other instances where I get the same "can't do_patch", with sato but that was on 1.6. I would have to redo it again and see if it threw a warning at some other packages.
Ok, for now I am going to close this as notabug, if you can get a reproducible failure please reopen this bug and provide details along with the log files.