meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py: deprecate 'exit 1' as a way to defer to first boot

'exit 1' is not optimal for two reasons:

1) Code is hard to read; it is not obvious that it means 'defer what follows to first boot'.
2) Worse, this hides actual errors in the scriptlets; there is no difference between scriptlet
failing because it's intended to be run on target and scriptlet failing because there's a bug or
a regression somewhere.

The new, supported way is to place the code that has to run on target into pkg_postinst_ontarget(),
or, if a more fine-tuned control is required, call 'postinst-intercepts defer_to_first_boot' from
pkg_postinst() to explicitly request deferral to first boot.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py
index 2a07f0e39a..f7e013437c 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py
@@ -604,6 +604,9 @@ class RpmPM(PackageManager):
             if line.startswith("Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package"):
                 failed_scriptlets_pkgnames[line.split()[-1]] = True
 
+        if len(failed_scriptlets_pkgnames) > 0:
+            bb.warn("Intentionally failing postinstall scriptlets of %s to defer them to first boot is deprecated. Please place them into pkg_postinst_ontarget_${PN} ()." %(list(failed_scriptlets_pkgnames.keys())))
+            bb.warn("If deferring to first boot wasn't the intent, then scriptlet failure may mean an issue in the recipe, or a regression elsewhere.")
         for pkg in failed_scriptlets_pkgnames.keys():
             self.save_rpmpostinst(pkg)