[poky] Using RPM with Poky

[Darren Hart]

On 03/21/2011 11:17 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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?

I'd suggest trying the meta-emenlow BSP from the meta-intel layer and 
see if you make it further as it also uses the Poulsbo chipset. Tom Z. 
on CC as he has the most experience with that BSP.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel