[yocto] [rpm] Problems with package upgrades

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Anders,

On Monday 07 November 2011 10:18:51 Anders Darander wrote:
> We have found a problem with upgrading packages on our own image.
> (Hopefully it'll show up to an error from our side).
> 
> After upgrading system packages, like busybox, we render our system
> unusable... In the busybox case, all symlinks pointing to busybox has
> been removed, and not reinstated during the post-install script.
> 
> The output from the rpm upgrade is shown below [2].
> 
> In order to get some feedback, I've reproduced the problem using a
> sligthly modified core-image-minimal built for qemux86. In the image, we
> increased the rootfs size, removed the removing of packaging data files
> and added rpm (dropbear was added to be able to easily tranfser a test
> rpm to the system). The patch is at the end of the mail [1].
> 
> Once this was done, the image was built, and after that, we bumped the
> PR of busybox and rebuilt that package. We transfered the updated
> busybox rpm to a running qemux86 instance, and tried to `rpm -Uvh
> busybox-1.18.5-r2`. After running this, all links normally pointing to
> /bin/busybox are non-existing, most certainly due to problems in the
> post-install script.

I looked into this yesterday and there's definitely a problem. I have filed bug 
#1760 [1] to track it and as described there should have a working fix very 
soon. Thanks for the concise example that helped me to reproduce the issue 
easily.

Cheers,
Paul

[1] http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1760

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre