[yocto] adt-installer: cannot install package autoconf-nativesdk

[Joshua Lock]

On 25/02/12 01:41, Andrea Galbusera wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Joshua Lock<josh at linux.intel.com>  wrote:
>> Hi Andrea,
>>
>>
>> On 24/02/12 05:40, Andrea Galbusera wrote:
>>>
>>> The installer was built against the latest version of its recipe as
>>> per commit c6ec5a0d9e31a1694aba25e2ff76f1c933e556d5,
>>> adt-installer-0.1.8+svnr596-r6. I guess a change was made with commit
>>> de68393270d5455b4861d38cef3f081b9667d25f which requires installing
>>> autoconf/automake-nativesdk but relevant ipks are missing from
>>> http://adtrepo.yoctoproject.org/1.1/adt-ipk/, which is still default
>>> in latest adt_installer.conf.
>>>
>>> Am I guessing right? First time digging into the adt_installer so I
>>> might be completely out of track! Is this a known limit if building
>>> adt_installer with latest edison branch? Should I file a bug for this?
>>> If so, what's the best solution right now? Maybe using the edison
>>> original adt_installer from the yocto downloads...
>>
>>
>> This sounds like you've correctly deduced the issue - it looks like there
>> may be required changes which need backporting to the edison repository -
>> I'm currently running some builds to verify this.
>>
>> Please do report this information on bugzilla so that we can track it. It's
>> my first time digging into the ADT installer too so it may take a couple of
>> days to pull together all of the required fixes.
>
> Submitted to shiny new bugzilla with #2031. I left the ADT version
> unspecified, since I believe we are somewhere between 1.1 and 1.1.1
> with current edison.

Thanks - the issue is restricted to Edison so far as I can tell so the 
bug has been marked thus.

> After looking a little closer at the adt_installer.conf generated from
> my build tree I noticed the following diffs wrt 1.1. First line looks
> pretty strange to me. Hope this helps

This is definitely a bug but not preventing you from installing the ADT. 
I've created a patch for this whilst I'm in this area of code though, 
thanks.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
         Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre