Unable to override file by machine for phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties

[Patrick Venture]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:29 PM Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:22 PM Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:
>>
>> With phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties, if we set the
>> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend to be machine specific, it can't find the file
>> and doesn't add the path, but if we leave off the machine override,
>> it'll find the file and use it.
>>
>> https://github.com/openbmc/meta-ingrasys/blob/master/meta-zaius/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties%25.bbappend
>>
>> This specifies that for zaius, it should prepend with this path and
>> use this override file.
>>
>> Deleted the extra-properties.yaml file from the original recipe and
>> tried building zaius:
>>
>> WARNING: phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties-native-1.0-r1 do_fetch: Failed
>> to fetch URL file://extra-properties.yaml, attempting MIRRORS if
>> available
>> ERROR: phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties-native-1.0-r1 do_fetch: Fetcher
>> failure: Unable to find file file://extra-properties.yaml anywhere.
>> The paths that were searched were:
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties-1.0/df-openpower
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties/df-openpower
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/files/df-openpower
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties-1.0/gbmc
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties/gbmc
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/files/gbmc
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties-1.0/
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties/
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/files/
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties-1.0/x86-64
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties/x86-64
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/files/x86-64
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties-1.0/
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties/
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/files/
>>     /usr/local/google/git/workspaces/building_122514933/build/downloads
>> ERROR: phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties-native-1.0-r1 do_fetch: Fetcher
>> failure for URL: 'file://extra-properties.yaml'. Unable to fetch URL
>> from any source.
>> ERROR: phosphor-ipmi-fru-properties-native-1.0-r1 do_fetch: Function
>> failed: base_do_fetch
>>
>> Ok, it can't find it.  But when I delete the machine override on the
>> line, basically delete "zaius" it then finds the file and uses the
>> zaius file correctly.  This behavior is baffling me, does anybody have
>> any ideas?  Has anyone seen this behavior?
>>
>> Patrick
>
>
> That's because this is a native package. Native packages don't set the MACHINE within the overrides variable so there's no way to tell what machine they're being built for.

Thanks, that makes sense.