bitbake: bitbake-layers: fix layerindex-fetch for Python 3

The data we read from an HTTPConnection comes in the form of bytes, but
we need it as a string, so in Python 3 we need to decode it (missed in
the Python 3 migration).

(Bitbake rev: e75c68819086788bac1c4ca8a35aebeaf604e624)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bblayers/layerindex.py b/bitbake/lib/bblayers/layerindex.py
index 10ad718eba..f53a47fcfd 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bblayers/layerindex.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bblayers/layerindex.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class LayerIndexPlugin(ActionPlugin):
         r = conn.getresponse()
         if r.status != 200:
             raise Exception("Failed to read " + path + ": %d %s" % (r.status, r.reason))
-        return json.loads(r.read())
+        return json.loads(r.read().decode())
 
     def get_layer_deps(self, layername, layeritems, layerbranches, layerdependencies, branchnum, selfname=False):
         def layeritems_info_id(items_name, layeritems):