[poky] Using RPM with Poky

[Gary Thomas]

On 03/21/2011 11:57 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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.

I guess I'm just used to my own minimal image which does have all these present.

>
>> 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'll see what I can do to help with this.

>>>>    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...

I'm not familiar with the details - it's an older Atom with the Poulsbo chipset.
The details (cpuinfo, lspci) are at http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/cpu_2011-03-21.info
The kernel is also not finding my SATA controller - should I expect that to work?

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