[yocto] populate_sdk_ext: Unable to locate package nativesdk-buildtools-perl-dummy

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:44:48 Michel D'HOOGE wrote:
> > From: "Paul Eggleton" <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> > Sent: Monday, 21 November, 2016 10:15:16 PM
> > 
> > I suspect it has to do with the arch mapping that goes on in
> > meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass; it probably doesn't understand the
> > dummy architecture we're giving it. The thing is even if it were to be
> > "corrected" to fall back to "all" instead of "allarch" that probably still
> > wouldn't work properly because the architecture of the perl packages would
> > be a higher priority than "all" and thus the dummy package wouldn't take
> > precedence.
> 
> It seems to be OK.
> The only other package with 'perl' in its name is 'nativesdk-git-perltools'.

OK, so it may only be working by chance then - if you did have the nativesdk-
perl package built then I suspect you'd find it would get installed. I'm 
puzzled as to why it hasn't been built though, since it is a dependency of 
some of the other items we do include in buildtools (notably git) and does get 
built when you use rpm as the backend, last I checked anyway.
 
> But I have (another) problem with the manifest files:
> - all "target" manifest files are empty
> - the 'poky-systemd-blah-blah-toolchain-ext-2.2.host.manifest' has a single
> entry: meta-environment-extsdk-vtc7200
> So maybe I don't see everything...

That's expected for the extensible SDK - it isn't built with the same kinds of 
packages that the standard SDK is built with.

> > In any case feel free to file a bug under "OE-Core -> Core" in
> > bugzilla, that> would be a reasonable category for this issue.
> 
> Done: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10700

Thanks.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre