How to fetch github releases using bitbake recipe?

Question

I am trying to fetch a github latest release from a recipe(bitbake) using yocto build system.

My recipe looks like this...

DESCRIPTION = "web based app "
LICENSE = "CLOSED"

APP_DESTINATION = "${libdir}/App"
SRC_URI = " \
    https://github.com/User/App/releases/download/latest/App.zip;github_private_asset=1 \
   "

S = "${WORKDIR}"


do_install_append() {
         install -d ${D}${APP_DESTINATION}
         cp -r ${S}/App/* ${D}${APP_DESTINATION}
   
}

FILES_${PN} += "\
    ${APP_DESTINATION}/* \
"

but it says..

Resolving github.com (github.com)... 170.72.121.4
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|170.72.121.4|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2021-10-04 07:10:36 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Can someone please help how to fetch the releases?

No, every other recipe works fine. only releases doesnt work — Hsn, Oct 04 '21 at 09:19
but i checked the url from browser as well. it is working fine. only problem is with bitbake — Hsn, Oct 04 '21 at 10:12
404 means that the bitbake fetcher is not able to reach the release uri, but that doesnt mean if its a problem with the internet or the file doesn't exist. — Hsn, Oct 04 '21 at 11:15
Run only this recipe with bitbake with option -vDDD and you will see more, much more :) — Lubo, Oct 08 '21 at 17:33
Thank you Lubo. i found out that as bitbake uses wget to fetch from https url and it uses --header="Authorization: token to authorize and as i am not providing this header in this recipe thats why it is 404. — Hsn, Oct 11 '21 at 09:45
do you know how can we fetch the release via ssh? or how can we put this header in the recipe? — Hsn, Oct 11 '21 at 09:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 29 '23 at 23:51

There is a new fetch mode in Yocto which is available from github-releases.bbclass. It is designed to fetch the release source from public GitHub https artifact.

Try to use inherit github-releases and GITHUB_BASE_URI. Also there is a libusb1 recipe which uses same fetching, it can help a lot.

How to fetch github releases using bitbake recipe?

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