[poky] Using RPM with Poky

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 10:35 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 03/21/2011 09:54 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > 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 tried adding this to local.conf, but nothing changed when I build minimal image:
>    IMAGE_FEATURES += " package-management ssh-server-dropbear "

There is also this:

# remove not needed ipkg informations
ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "remove_packaging_data_files ; "

in poky-image-minimal.bbclass which has been there for a long time and
removes the package manager data files.


> BTW, where is this documented?  Not in the Poky handbook from what I can tell.
> 
> Also, is there documentation on how to use zypper, how to set up repositories, etc?

I think others have helped here. Please do send patches for the manual
when people go to the trouble of finding information to help though!

> >>   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...
> 
> It complains it can't find /dev/fb0.  See the boot log at http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/boot_2011-03-21.log

Does your board have Intel graphics or PVR/SGX? emenlow has PVR/SGX
which might explain this...

Cheers,

Richard