[Buildroot] [git commit] pkg-download: use raw basename for repo archiving to remove host- prefix

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Oct 20 19:46:10 UTC 2016


commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=448d1d1e69e5f0e04a4553571bcebeedd2ad135c
branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

For packages that use a version control repository rather than a pre-made
tarball, the directory prefix used inside the tarball is currently
FOO_BASE_NAME, which can be 'foo' or 'host-foo'.

This means that the hash of such tarball will be different for target and
host packages, even though the contents are exactly the same. Hence, if the
hash file is created based on 'foo', and later a fresh build is made where
'host-foo' happens to be built before 'foo' (with a different config, for
example), the hash will be detected as incorrect and a new download is
started.

This problem does not affect many packages/users, due to the number of
conditions to be met:
- the package should be available for target _and_ host
- the package needs to use a VCS download method, e.g. git, hg, svn, ...
  This does not include standard github downloads, which download a pre-made
  archive.
- there should be a hash file containing the hash of the downloaded archive.
  Since normally there is no hash file for packages with sources coming from
  a version control system, this restricts even further. Some examples of
  packages in this category that do have a hash file (but not necessarily
  match the earlier conditions): expedite, vexpress-firmware, squashfs, ...
- the archive needs to be stored in a 'primary site' after initial archiving
  and thus be downloaded later using a non-version-controlled method, like
  wget or scp. This is because the version control download methods do not
  receive a '-H' parameter pointing to the hash file and thus no hashes are
  checked at all even if the file is present.

While packages matching the third condition could be considered to be 'wrong'
and need to be fixed, it does actually makes sense to have a hash file for
packages from version control, in particular if they are stored in a
primary site as mentioned in the last condition.

Regardless of any different opinions on the previous paragraph, it is also
not conceptually correct that a tarball of a package source can contain a
Buildroot-specific directory prefix 'host-'.  Therefore, use
FOO_RAW_BASE_NAME instead of FOO_BASE_NAME when calling the dl-wrapper.

Example test scenario that exhibits the problem:
$ rm -rf /tmp/dl dl/squashfs-9c1db6d13a51a2e009f0027ef336ce03624eac0d.tar.gz
$ make qemu_x86_64_defconfig
$ make host-squashfs-dirclean host-squashfs-source
$ mkdir /tmp/dl
$ mv dl/squashfs-9c1db6d13a51a2e009f0027ef336ce03624eac0d.tar.gz /tmp/dl/
$ sed -i -e 's,BR2_PRIMARY_SITE=.*,BR2_PRIMARY_SITE="file:///tmp/dl",' \
         -e '/BR2_PRIMARY_SITE/aBR2_PRIMARY_SITE_ONLY=y'  .config
$ make host-squashfs-dirclean host-squashfs-source

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
 package/pkg-download.mk | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package/pkg-download.mk b/package/pkg-download.mk
index 3b6561b..0f542e6 100644
--- a/package/pkg-download.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-download.mk
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ define DOWNLOAD_GIT
 		-- \
 		$($(PKG)_SITE) \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_VERSION) \
-		$($(PKG)_BASE_NAME) \
+		$($(PKG)_RAW_BASE_NAME) \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_OPTS)
 endef
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ define DOWNLOAD_BZR
 		-- \
 		$($(PKG)_SITE) \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_VERSION) \
-		$($(PKG)_BASE_NAME) \
+		$($(PKG)_RAW_BASE_NAME) \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_OPTS)
 endef
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ define DOWNLOAD_CVS
 		$(call stripurischeme,$(call qstrip,$($(PKG)_SITE))) \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_VERSION) \
 		$($(PKG)_RAWNAME) \
-		$($(PKG)_BASE_NAME) \
+		$($(PKG)_RAW_BASE_NAME) \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_OPTS)
 endef
 
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ define DOWNLOAD_SVN
 		-- \
 		$($(PKG)_SITE) \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_VERSION) \
-		$($(PKG)_BASE_NAME) \
+		$($(PKG)_RAW_BASE_NAME) \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_OPTS)
 endef
 
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ define DOWNLOAD_HG
 		-- \
 		$($(PKG)_SITE) \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_VERSION) \
-		$($(PKG)_BASE_NAME) \
+		$($(PKG)_RAW_BASE_NAME) \
 		$($(PKG)_DL_OPTS)
 endef
 


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