[poky] Zypper question

[Mark Hatle]

On 5/3/11 8:45 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 05:36 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> On 5/3/11 6:09 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> I'm trying to set up zypper on a qemu based system.  I've built
>>> the image&  additional packages in 192.168.1.125:/local/qemu_test/tmp/deploy/rpm/
>>> This system is running lighttpd and has the path http://192.168.1.125/qemu-repo
>>> set to that path.  I verified it by fetching http://192.168.1.125/qemu-repo/solvedb.conf
>>> which shows up as
>>>     /local/qemu_test/tmp/deploy/rpm/qemux86/solvedb
>>>     /local/qemu_test/tmp/deploy/rpm/i586/solvedb
>>>     /local/qemu_test/tmp/deploy/rpm/all/solvedb
>>>
>>> On the QEMU system, I ran
>>>     # zypper addrepo http://192.168.1.125/qemu-repo yocto
>>>     # zypper refresh
>>> No errors were reported
>>>
>>> When I tried to install a package, I got this:
>>>     # zypper install gst-plugins-base
>>>     Error building the cache.
>>>     [1] Repository type can't be determined.
>>>     warning: Disabling repository 'yocto' because of the above error.
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Note: I tried to follow https://wiki.pokylinux.org/wiki/Zypper_Repository_Setup
>>> Can I help with this (edit the page, etc)?  If so, how do I get a login?
>>>
>>
>> This is odd.  I didn't experience these issues when I was doing the development
>> / testing.
>>
>>> From the above there is an "Error building the cache."  the only caching steps
>> that occur during an install is a sync of the system's RPM cache.  If something
>> is wrong there you can get a similar error.
>>
>> Try simply running "rpm -qa" and make sure you get reasonable output.  If not,
>> then RPM isn't installed properly.  (By default on a minimal system, the RPM
>> database is removed after the rootfs is populated.)
> 
> 'rpm -qa ' worked just fine.
> 
> I started with core-image-sato, so it's a pretty complete system to start.
> 
> Do I have the repo stuff set up correctly?  I can see from the lighttpd logs
> that it seems to be looking for files I don't have:
>    192.168.7.2 192.168.1.125 - [03/May/2011:16:57:38 -0600] "HEAD /qemu-repo/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 0 "-" "ZYpp 8.11.0 (curl 7.21.2)"
>    192.168.7.2 192.168.1.125 - [03/May/2011:16:57:38 -0600] "HEAD /qemu-repo/content HTTP/1.1" 404 0 "-" "ZYpp 8.11.0 (curl 7.21.2)"
> Neither of these files seems to be in tmp/deploy/rpm
> 
> Did I miss a step?  I ran 'bitbake package-index' just in case.
> 
> 

did you run createrepo on the /local/qemu_test/tmp/deploy/rpm directory?

(step 4 in the wiki page)  I usually run createrepo <path> -- but apparently it
works if you are in the same directory...

--Mark