[yocto] [rpm] Problems with package upgrades

[Anders Darander]

* Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> [111108 17:23]:
> 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.

Thanks, for looking into this.

Sounds great that you are close to a working fix!

Cheers,
Anders

> [1] http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1760
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Anders Darander
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB