packagedata: Add warnings if multiple recipes try to write the same package

If multiple recipes try and write the same package it resulted in a rather confusing traceback and unintuitive error. This patch prints a human readable error instead.

[YOCTO #3645]

Signed-off-by Richard Purdie <[email protected]>

---

meta/classes/packagedata.bbclass +6 -1

index 790d874..120cd64 100644
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 python read_subpackage_metadata () {
     import oe.packagedata
 
-    data = oe.packagedata.read_pkgdata(d.getVar('PN', True), d)
+    pn = d.getVar('PN', True)
+    data = oe.packagedata.read_pkgdata(pn, d)
 
     for key in data.keys():
         d.setVar(key, data[key])

@@ -9,5 +10,9 @@ python read_subpackage_metadata () {
     for pkg in d.getVar('PACKAGES', True).split():
         sdata = oe.packagedata.read_subpkgdata(pkg, d)
         for key in sdata.keys():
+            if key == "PN":
+                if sdata[key] != pn:
+                    bb.fatal("Recipe %s is trying to create package %s which was already written by recipe %s. This will cause corruption, please resolve this and only provide the package from one recipe or the other or only build one of the recipes." % (pn, pkg, sdata[key]))
+                continue
             d.setVar(key, sdata[key])
 }

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