Re: [PATCH xenomai-images] kas/ci: Fix bitbake variable referencing themselves

On 01.06.26 13:53, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 01.06.26 12:35, Florian Bezdeka wrote:
>> When trying to run a local kas build using the kas/opt/ci.yaml option
>> file the following bitbake error occurred as the following two bitbake
>> variables were referencing themselves:
>>
>> Variables:
>>   - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
>>   - AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
>>
>> Error:
>> bb.data_smart.ExpansionError: Failure expanding variable
>> AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, expression was ${AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID} which triggered
>> exception
>> Exception: variable AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID references itself!
>> The variable dependency chain for the failure is: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
>>
>> The problem only exists for local builds as the gitlab project
>> configuration defines such variables.
>>
>> We can avoid the bitbake error by stopping forwaring the variables to
>> bitbake. We don't need those variables inside the build environment.
>> The only user is located in the deploy_to_aws.sh script, which is
>> executed on gitlab CI level.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Bezdeka <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  kas/opt/ci.yaml | 4 ----
>>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kas/opt/ci.yaml b/kas/opt/ci.yaml
>> index e1466a0..01d5c07 100644
>> --- a/kas/opt/ci.yaml
>> +++ b/kas/opt/ci.yaml
>> @@ -23,7 +23,3 @@ local_conf_header:
>>      IMAGE_INSTALL:remove = "sshd-regen-keys"
>>      IMAGE_INSTALL:remove = "expand-on-first-boot"
>>      IMAGE_FSTYPES = "${@ 'ext4.gz' if d.getVar('MACHINE', True).startswith('qemu') else 'tar.gz' }"
>> -
>> -env:
>> -  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID}
>> -  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}
> 
> Check the introducing commit 0e027423275a why those two are probably
> needed for bitbake as well.
> 

That said, maybe setting those to empty is already enough because kas
will then pick up their value from the calling env - if set. In any
case, please validate any new proposal accordingly.

Jan

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