Printing a useful error message while failing should help users understand why we fail with this error. As the current error message doesn't directly link to needing to inherit nopackages.
Previous error message: | DEBUG: Executing shell function buildhistory_list_pkg_files | find: ".../meta-toolchain/1.0/packages-split/*": No such file or directory | WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command. | DEBUG: Python function buildhistory_emit_pkghistory finished New error message: | ERROR: meta-toolchain-1.0-r0 do_package: meta-toolchain: ../meta-toolchain/1.0/packages-split is empty. | ERROR: meta-toolchain-1.0-r0 do_package: Possible reasons: | ERROR: meta-toolchain-1.0-r0 do_package: 1. Recipe doesn't install any files. Inherit nopackages to fix. | ERROR: meta-toolchain-1.0-r0 do_package: 2. do_packagedata task wasn't executed. | ERROR: meta-toolchain-1.0-r0 do_package: Execution of '../meta-toolchain/1.0/temp/run.buildhistory_list_pkg_files.1003324' failed with exit code 1 Signed-off-by: Atharva Nandanwar <[email protected]> --- meta/classes/buildhistory.bbclass | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/classes/buildhistory.bbclass b/meta/classes/buildhistory.bbclass index ce3abaa69d..0e9d5464af 100644 --- a/meta/classes/buildhistory.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/buildhistory.bbclass @@ -621,7 +621,13 @@ buildhistory_list_pkg_files() { fi # Create individual files-in-package for each recipe's package - pkgdirlist=$(find ${PKGDEST}/* -maxdepth 0 -type d) + pkgdirlist=$(find ${PKGDEST}/* -maxdepth 0 -type d || true) + if [ -z "${pkgdirlist}" ]; then + bberror "${PN}: ${PKGDEST} is empty." + bberror "Possible reasons:" + bberror "1. Recipe doesn't install any files. Inherit nopackages to fix." + bbfatal "2. do_packagedata task wasn't executed." + fi for pkgdir in $pkgdirlist; do pkgname=$(basename $pkgdir) outfolder="${BUILDHISTORY_DIR_PACKAGE}/$pkgname" -- 2.34.1
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