[poky] bitbake package-index broken?

[Gary Thomas]

On 11/24/2010 03:56 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> With a recent build, bitbake package-index doesn't seem to do anything.
> e.g. if I look at tmp/deploy/ipk/*/Packages.gz before and after, there
> are no changes.
>
> I tried to build a simple package and add it to my database. Sadly,
> it's not being updated at all, so the new package does not appear on
> the board.
>
> Any ideas what might be wrong?

A quick check shows that do_build() in the package-index recipe is never
really run!

I found a workaround by just building an image which has a root file system.
This also forces a package database rebuild.  It would be nice to figure out
what's broken though (it certainly _used_ to work)

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