[yocto] smart 1.4.1 unsolved problem

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 09 June 2015 12:47:31 George Nita wrote:
> On 05/22/2015 12:35 PM, George Nita wrote:
> > On 05/22/2015 11:43 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >> Hi George,
> >> 
> >> On Thursday 21 May 2015 11:44:54 George Nita wrote:
> >>> I've reproduced the https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/1238492 issue
> >>> 
> >>> branch: dizzy
> >>> target: p2041rdb
> >>> 
> >>> Did any one hit this too?
> >> 
> >> Did you enable runtime package management (i.e., is
> >> "package-management" in
> >> IMAGE_FEATURES (or indirectly via EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES)?) If you're
> >> not sure,
> >> you can use bitbake -e to check.
> >> 
> >> If it isn't enabled, that would explain the behaviour because
> >> smart/rpm think
> >> that no packages are installed because there is no package database in
> >> the
> >> image.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> Paul
> > 
> > Hello Paul,
> > 
> > IMAGE_FEATURES="debug-tweaks ssh-server-dropbear package-management"
> > 
> > 
> > When committing the computed changeset smart attempts to install
> > packages that are in the dependency list but are already installed, and
> > fails because of it:
> > 
> > root at p2041rdb:~# smart install -y bc
> > Loading cache...
> > Updating cache...               ########################################
> > [100%]
> > 
> > Computing transaction...
> > 
> > Installing packages (7):
> >    bc-1.06-r2.0 at ppce500mc
> >    busybox-1.22.1-r32.0 at ppce500mc
> >    busybox-syslog-1.22.1-r32.0 at ppce500mc
> >    busybox-udhcpc-1.22.1-r32.0 at ppce500mc
> >    libc6-2.20-r0.0 at ppce500mc
> >    update-alternatives-opkg-0.1.8+git0+eae0d8fa44-r0.0 at ppce500mc
> >    update-rc.d-0.7-r5.0 at all
> > 
> > 2.2MB of package files are needed. 4.4MB will be used.
> > 
> > Fetching packages...
> > ->
> > http://172.21.3.25/.../update-alternatives-opkg-0.1.8+git0+eae0d8fa44-r0.0
> > .ppce500mc.rpm
> > 
> > update-alternatives-opkg-0.1... ########################################
> > [ 14%]
> > -> http://.../rpm/all/update-rc.d-0.7-r5.0.all.rpm
> > ->
> > http://172.21.3.25/~geni/rpm/.../busybox-udhcpc-1.22.1-r32.0.ppce500mc.rpm
> > busybox-udhcpc-1.22.1-r32.0.p.. ########################################
> > [ 28%]
> > -> http://.../rpm/ppce500mc/bc-1.06-r2.0.ppce500mc.rpm
> > bc-1.06-r2.0.ppce500mc.rpm      ########################################
> > [ 42%]
> > -> http://.../rpm/.../busybox-syslog-1.22.1-r32.0.ppce500mc.rpm
> > busybox-syslog-1.22.1-r32.0.p.. ########################################
> > [ 57%]
> > update-rc.d-0.7-r5.0.all.rpm    ########################################
> > [ 71%]
> > -> http://.../rpm/ppce500mc/busybox-1.22.1-r32.0.ppce500mc.rpm
> > busybox-1.22.1-r32.0.ppce500m.. ########################################
> > [ 85%]
> > -> http://.../rpm/ppce500mc/libc6-2.20-r0.0.ppce500mc.rpm
> > libc6-2.20-r0.0.ppce500mc.rpm   ########################################
> > [100%]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Committing transaction...
> > Preparing...                    ########################################
> > [  0%]
> > error: package
> > update-alternatives-opkg-0.1.8+git0+eae0d8fa44-r0.0.ppce500mc is already
> > installed
> > error: package busybox-1.22.1-r32.0.ppce500mc is already installed
> > error: package update-rc.d-0.7-r5.0.all is already installed
> > ...
> > 
> > 
> > This seems consistent with the reported issue
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/1238492
> > 
> 
> Sorry, my error: I've removed the rpm-sys type channel, the one hosting
> installed packages. After recreating the rpm-sys type channel everything
> worked as expected.

Ah yes, that would do it... glad you managed to resolve the issue, I'll 
remember to ask about that in future :)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre