[Bitbake-dev] [Bug 2030] RFE/RFC: should bitbake refuse to work when there are symlinks in the path?

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http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2030





------- Comment #2 from rpurdie at rpsys.net  2007-03-25 04:19 -------
I've done some research on this and its not a simple problem. The problem
occurs due to the way we append to paths to create the directory structure.
Starting with TOPDIR, we then append framents like "/tmp", "/work" and a host
of other fragments. If any single one of these is a symlink, we have this
problem. Anthing below TOPDIR should be created by bitbake and hence should not
be a symlink, the only way they become symlinks is if someone creates them. As
I read the code, TOPDIR shouldn't contain symlinks. The only way symlinks
therefore occur is if people create them or set a path for something like
TMPDIR in their local.conf which contain them.

I therefore propose that we add some checks to sanity.bbclass which checks if
TOPDIR and TMPDIR contain symlinks and error if they're found (since bitbake
shouldn't intoduce them on its own). That would make this an OE bug rather than
a bitbake one.


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