[poky] Zypper question

[Gary Thomas]

On 05/04/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 5/4/11 6:21 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 05/03/2011 10:49 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
>>> 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...
>>
>> Indeed, I missed that step.
>>
>> Note: I had expected this operation to be handled by 'bitbake package-index'
>> Could it not be done that way so it's always the same, no matter the style
>> of package management?
>
> It likely can.  I didn't even know bitbake package-index was a target.  Please
> file a bug and I'll investigate and get it resolved.

Done, bug #1024

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