[yocto] populate_sdk and debian packages problem

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Martin,

On Monday 02 November 2015 18:53:04 Martin Townsend wrote:
> I've just moved everything to fido and everything builds fine.  One of the
> reasons for moving to Fido was to use the built toolchain and create an SDK
> using populate_sdk but it is failing with the following message:
> ERROR: Unable to install packages. Command
> '/home/martin/ws_poweroasis/build/am43-devboard-aquila/bia-tmp-glibc/sysroot
> s/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/apt-get install --force-yes --allow-unauthenticated
> nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host
> packagegroup-cross-canadian-am43-devboard-aquila' returned 100:
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> W: Unable to read
> /home/martin/ws_poweroasis/build/am43-devboard-aquila/bia-tmp-glibc/work/am4
> 3_devboard_aquila-oe-linux-gnueabi/bia-image/1.0-r0/apt-sdk/preferences.d/ -
> DirectoryExists (2: No such file or directory)
> E: Unable to locate package nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host
> 
> I checked the nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host build and it's empty.
> 
> After a bit of searching I found that a similar problem exists in Daisy and
> it was down to debian packages which I am using so I chaged to use the
> default IPK and the error message disappears.
> 
> Is this a regression? or are Debian packages not supported for SDK?

If it worked before then it's a regression. I'm afraid deb packaging is the 
least well-tested of the three packaging options, from time to time it does 
break unfortunately. Could you please file a bug at bugzilla.yoctoproject.org ?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre