[poky] bitbake package-index broken?

[Gary Thomas]

On 11/24/2010 04:47 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> 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?

Done - bug #544

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