[poky] Using RPM with Poky

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 09:25 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm trying to do some testing with Poky on an atom-PC.  I thought
> I'd try with a minimal system and then add pieces I need.  Sadly,
> I've run aground doing this.  I've built a couple of images with
> varying results:
>    poky-image-minimal-live - boots on my box
>    poky-image-sato-live - boots, but fails to find X display, then hangs (*)
> 
> There seem to be no RPM tools on the minimal image.  Did I miss something?
> On my old, ipk based system, I'd build up a minimal image then use opkg
> to install additional packages.

Minimal images were never meant to ship with the package manager and now
don't. You can obviously change the image definitions easily enough as
needed.

>   How do I do that with the RPM based images? 

The same switch turns on/off the package manager data for rpm and opkg.

>  I've checked the documentation and there's basically nothing
> about this, unless I looked in the wrong place.
> 
> Any ideas or pointers gladly accepted.  Thanks
> 
> (*) I had success with this in the past when I booted with MACHINE=emenlow
> but that hardware isn't in the primary list.

I'm not sure why this isn't working or what the problem might be...

You didn't mention which branch this is with btw.

Cheers,

Richard