package.bbclass: Add warning about FILES containing '//'

'//' in a FILES variable causes hard to track down issues with
packaging. This adds a warning and attempts to auto-correct the issue to
try and make the problem more user friendly.

[YOCTO #2448]

(From OE-Core rev: 0e33e314b1d2d3779658696f13a274b20d698667)

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

diff --git a/meta/classes/package.bbclass b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
index 41139ef..10c2f0a 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/classes/package.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
@@ -917,6 +917,9 @@ python populate_packages () {
                files = filesvar.split()
                file_links = {}
                for file in files:
+                       if file.find("//") != -1:
+                               bb.warn("FILES variable for package %s contains '//' which is invalid. Attempting to fix this but you should correct the metadata.\n" % pkg)
+                               file.replace("//", "/")
                        if os.path.isabs(file):
                                file = '.' + file
                        if not os.path.islink(file):