[poky] bitbake package-index broken?

[Joshua Lock]

On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 04:33 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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)
> 

I'm not really familiar with the ipk classes so can't offer a quick
solution, could I ask you to file a bug so that we can track this issue
and assign resources to fix?

Thanks,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre