[poky] bitbake package-index broken?

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 05:35 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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

I've a fix I'll push shortly. The reason was that we marked do_build as
noexec and package-index did all its work in do_build. The updates
changes this and marks more tasks in that recipe as noexec to make
things more efficient.

Cheers,

Richard