[Buildroot] [Bug 11086] New: download/git submodule breaks on symlinked dl folder
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Mon Jun 11 09:35:10 UTC 2018
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11086
Bug ID: 11086
Summary: download/git submodule breaks on symlinked dl folder
Product: buildroot
Version: 2018.05
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: Other
Assignee: unassigned at buildroot.uclibc.org
Reporter: posted at heine.so
CC: buildroot at uclibc.org
Target Milestone: ---
Hi,
I'm not sure if this should be actually considered a bug but maybe this is
something which should be mentioned in the documentation.
I have been symlinking the /dl folder of Buildroot to keep a central cache of
downloads (I now know `export BR2_DL_DIR` might be better). This was no problem
before but I ran into a problem with a git download which uses a submodule.
So my structure is like this
/foo/buildroot-2018.05
/foo/dl
the BR folder contains a symlink to the dl folder (doesn't matter if relativ or
absolute)
the checkout of the submodule fails with
fatal: Could not chdir to
'../../../../../../../../dl/my_project/git/dep/my_submodule': No such file or
directory
If I compare paths I notice one too many '../' in this. which relates to the dl
folder being one folder higher than the dl folder in BR.
(the entry in .git/modules/dep/my_submodule/config contains the false relative
worktree)
I imagine this would require some decent fiddeling to fix. So maybe a note
mentioning "you should no symlink the dl folder, use BR2_DL_DIR" would be
helpful.
Regards,
Michael
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