Re: [meta-virtualization] [Question] container-bundle: CONTAINER_SERVICE_FILE silently dropped (do_unpack noexec)

On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 12:59 AM mark.yang via lists.yoctoproject.org
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On master there seems to be a contradiction between the
> CONTAINER_SERVICE_FILE docs and do_unpack in container-bundle.bbclass.
>
> The custom-service docs (bbclass header and docs/container-bundling.md)
> say to
> ship the unit like this:
>
>     SRC_URI = "file://myapp.service"
>     CONTAINER_SERVICE_FILE[myapp-container] = "${UNPACKDIR}/myapp.service"
>
> But container-bundle.bbclass sets do_unpack[noexec] = "1", so the
> file:// is never unpacked into ${UNPACKDIR}. The do_install loop that
> copies
> custom services then fails its "[ ! -f $service_file ]" check, skips
> silently,
> and the bundle ends up with an empty container-bundles/<runtime>/services/.
>
> ..Or have I misunderstood how this is meant to be used?
>

I was placing the file through other means during development (explicitly
in a
task) that didn't make it into the final classes / recipes.

I'm just finishing up some system testing on upgrades in master-next, I
have a
fix and a new test for this that I'll push along with those changes.

Bruce



>
> Thanks!
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