[poky] Using RPM with Poky

[Gary Thomas]

On 03/21/2011 02:47 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>
>
> 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.

I'd be happy to try, but it doesn't build the kernel (already reported)

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