if data.getVar('MACHINE', e.data, True):
if not check_conf_exists("conf/machine/${MACHINE}.conf", e.data):
messages = messages + 'Please set a valid MACHINE in your local.conf\n'
+
+ # Check that DL_DIR is set, exists and is writable. In theory, we should never even hit the check if DL_DIR isn't
+ # set, since so much relies on it being set.
+ dldir = data.getVar('DL_DIR', e.data, True)
+ if not dldir:
+ messages = messages + "DL_DIR is not set. Your environment is misconfigured, check that DL_DIR is set, and if the directory exists, that it is writable. \n"
+ if os.path.exists(dldir) and not os.access(dldir, os.W_OK):
+ messages = messages + "DL_DIR: %s exists but you do not appear to have write access to it. \n" % dldir
# Check that the DISTRO is valid
# need to take into account DISTRO renaming DISTRO
oeroot = data.getVar('POKYBASE', e.data)
if oeroot.find ('+') != -1:
- messages = messages + "Error, you have an invalid character (+) in your POKYBASE directory path. Please more Poky to a directory which doesn't include a +."
+ messages = messages + "Error, you have an invalid character (+) in your POKYBASE directory path. Please move Poky to a directory which doesn't include a +."
elif oeroot.find (' ') != -1:
messages = messages + "Error, you have a space in your POKYBASE directory path. Please move Poky to a directory which doesn't include a space."