[yocto] Issues removing RRECOMMENDS packages with BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS

[Carr, Chris (GE Intelligent Platforms)]

Hi,

I have successfully built a custom root filesystem, but I'm having issues stopping certain packages from being installed.

Basically the BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS that I have defined is not removing/preventing the installation of the RRECOMMENDS packages. This is using opkg as the package manager.

I am using:

BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS=" \
    busybox-udhcpc \
    e2fsprogs-e2fsck \
    udev-hwdb \
    update-rc.d \
    vim-help \
    vim-syntax \
    vim-tutor \
    "

All of which are specified as RRECOMMENDS in various recipes.

The BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS all seem to write the correct entries to the /var/lib/opkg/status file (desinstall hold not-installed), which I've confirmed with some debug in the package_manager.py. However when the packages are being installed in the rootfs stage, then only a couple of them are processed and ignored.

The strange thing is, that depending on the verbosity of the opkg-cl command, the number of packages successfully processed changes. The higher the verbosity the more packages from BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS are processed.

I include the output of the rootfs creation below, with the "ignoring recommendation" lines pulled out.

I believe that I am using BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS correctly, I just cannot see what is going wrong.
I've tried with the a newer version of opkg (0.2.3) but that showed the same issues.

Thanks for any help

Chris Carr


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-bash-4.2$ /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/opkg-cl -v
opkg version 0.2.2

Default Run:

NOTE: /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/opkg-cl -f /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/work/da923rc-owc_cc-linux-gnuspe/openware-core/1.0-r0/opkg.conf -o /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/work/da923rc-owc_cc-linux-gnuspe/openware-core/1.0-r0/rootfs --force_postinstall --prefer-arch-to-version   install opkg-collateral packagegroup-owc-system packagegroup-owc-boot packagegroup-owc-net opkg packagegroup-owc-ruby

vim: ignoring recommendation for vim-syntax at user request
systemd: ignoring recommendation for e2fsprogs-e2fsck at user request

Debug V1:

NOTE: /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/opkg-cl -V1 -f /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/work/da923rc-owc_cc-linux-gnuspe/openware-core/1.0-r0/opkg.conf -o /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/work/da923rc-owc_cc-linux-gnuspe/openware-core/1.0-r0/rootfs --force_postinstall --prefer-arch-to-version   install opkg-collateral packagegroup-owc-system packagegroup-owc-boot packagegroup-owc-net opkg packagegroup-owc-ruby

vim: ignoring recommendation for vim-syntax at user request
systemd: ignoring recommendation for e2fsprogs-e2fsck at user request

Debug V2:

NOTE: /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/opkg-cl -V2 -f /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/work/da923rc-owc_cc-linux-gnuspe/openware-core/1.0-r0/opkg.conf -o /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/work/da923rc-owc_cc-linux-gnuspe/openware-core/1.0-r0/rootfs --force_postinstall --prefer-arch-to-version   install opkg-collateral packagegroup-owc-system packagegroup-owc-boot packagegroup-owc-net opkg packagegroup-owc-ruby

vim: ignoring recommendation for vim-syntax at user request
systemd: ignoring recommendation for udev-hwdb at user request
systemd: ignoring recommendation for e2fsprogs-e2fsck at user request

Debug V3:

NOTE: /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/opkg-cl -V3 -f /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/work/da923rc-owc_cc-linux-gnuspe/openware-core/1.0-r0/opkg.conf -o /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/work/da923rc-owc_cc-linux-gnuspe/openware-core/1.0-r0/rootfs --force_postinstall --prefer-arch-to-version   install opkg-collateral packagegroup-owc-system packagegroup-owc-boot packagegroup-owc-net opkg packagegroup-owc-ruby

vim: ignoring recommendation for vim-help at user request
vim: ignoring recommendation for vim-syntax at user request
vim: ignoring recommendation for vim-tutor at user request
rsyslog: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
busybox: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
busybox: ignoring recommendation for busybox-udhcpc at user request
dbus-1: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
systemd: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
systemd: ignoring recommendation for udev-hwdb at user request
systemd: ignoring recommendation for e2fsprogs-e2fsck at user request
run-postinsts: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
ntp: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
quagga: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
dropbear: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
rarpd: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request

Debug V4:

NOTE: /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/opkg-cl -V4 -f /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/work/da923rc-owc_cc-linux-gnuspe/openware-core/1.0-r0/opkg.conf -o /srv/nfs/chris/owc_up/poky/build/tmp/work/da923rc-owc_cc-linux-gnuspe/openware-core/1.0-r0/rootfs --force_postinstall --prefer-arch-to-version   install opkg-collateral packagegroup-owc-system packagegroup-owc-boot packagegroup-owc-net opkg packagegroup-owc-ruby

vim: ignoring recommendation for vim-help at user request
vim: ignoring recommendation for vim-syntax at user request
vim: ignoring recommendation for vim-tutor at user request
rsyslog: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
busybox: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
busybox: ignoring recommendation for busybox-udhcpc at user request
dbus-1: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
systemd: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
systemd: ignoring recommendation for udev-hwdb at user request
systemd: ignoring recommendation for e2fsprogs-e2fsck at user request
run-postinsts: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
ntp: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
quagga: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
dropbear: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request
rarpd: ignoring recommendation for update-rc.d at user request