bitbake: utils: Refactor filemode variable conversion to a function

We have other places in the code where we need to take filemode/mask
information from a bitbake variable and turn it into a real python
number. Turn this internal code into public API in bb.utils and
add some tests for it.

(Bitbake rev: d89e30fb2fb15b09f2cb95c4e5aa9f749ca257ea)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/bin/bitbake-worker b/bitbake/bin/bitbake-worker
index 35fa1ab62b..d2b146a6a9 100755
--- a/bitbake/bin/bitbake-worker
+++ b/bitbake/bin/bitbake-worker
@@ -182,11 +182,8 @@ def fork_off_task(cfg, data, databuilder, workerdata, extraconfigdata, runtask):
     elif workerdata["umask"]:
         umask = workerdata["umask"]
     if umask:
-        # umask might come in as a number or text string..
-        try:
-             umask = int(umask, 8)
-        except TypeError:
-             pass
+        # Convert to a python numeric value as it could be a string
+        umask = bb.utils.to_filemode(umask)
 
     dry_run = cfg.dry_run or runtask['dry_run']