[yocto] smart 1.4.1 unsolved problem

[George Nita]

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



Thanks,

-- 
George Nita