bitbake.conf/sstate.bbclass: Change PATH when installing sstate files to avoid issues

This resolves issues related to pigz-native when installing from sstate that people
have been seeing. It also gives us a way to solve issues like the gzip-native race
during sstate package creation covered in Yocto #1774.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass b/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
index 0d16d118d..15706541a 100644
--- a/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
@@ -153,6 +153,12 @@ def sstate_installpkg(ss, d):
         bb.mkdirhier(dir)
         oe.path.remove(dir)
 
+    # We're adding binaries into the sysroots, we don't want to execute them
+    # whilst they're half installed or being installed so we need to
+    # remove the sysroots from PATH
+    savedpath = d.getVar("PATH")
+    d.setVar("PATH", "${ORIGPATH}")
+
     sstateinst = d.expand("${WORKDIR}/sstate-install-%s/" % ss['name'])
     sstatepkg = d.getVar('SSTATE_PKG', True) + '_' + ss['name'] + ".tgz"
 
@@ -190,6 +196,8 @@ def sstate_installpkg(ss, d):
         # conflict with another writer
         os.remove(fixmefn)
 
+    d.setVar("PATH", savedpath)
+
     for state in ss['dirs']:
         prepdir(state[1])
         os.rename(sstateinst + state[0], state[1])