bitbake network failure during npm build

Question

I am trying to build openbmc image and my yocto build is failing in phosphor-webui recipe's do compile task. Here is the do compile task

do_compile () {
cd ${S}
rm -rf node_modules
npm --loglevel info --proxy=${http_proxy} --https-proxy=${https_proxy} install
npm run-script build
}

During NPM install, network access is done to download but bitbake seem to disable the network prior to the build process. I can see this in the build log.

DEBUG: Attempting to disable network
DEBUG: SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH: 1636412844

I tried to set BB_NO_NETWORK variable to '0' but this too didnot help.

How to configure bitbake to allow network access during all tasks ?

Answer 1

Looks like you found an phosphor-webui openbmc recipe issue.

The text "Attempting to disable network" comes from here which was changed 8 days ago by this. So lets check upstream to see if there is a fix in review. I don't see any changes to open bmc recipes here

You should be able to do one of three things

1. remove phosphor-webui from you image, and build without it. Just remove phosphor-webui from you machine conf, and use webui-vue instead.
2. Roll you openbmc repo back 18 days and build before it the breaking change. git checkout ca2f10c
3. Fix the recipe and make everyone's life better. It looks like you need change the Datastore Variables. Something like d.setVar(network, "true") in the recipe file. (if that works send in a patch)

Discord and eMail are the perfered ways of reaching out to the openbmc community. Let us know how it goes and if you have anymore issues.