Re: Build fails moving from 4.0.1 to 5.0.1

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 08:29 +0100, Chris Tapp wrote:
> I've got a configuration that builds ok under 4.0.1, but when I build  
> under 5.0.1 I get the following right at the end:
> 
> Installing task-poky-boot (1.0-r7) to root...
> Downloading file:/home/chris/yocto/ebox3300-build/tmp/deploy/ipk/ 
> Vortex86DX/task-poky-boot_1.0-r7_Vortex86DX.ipk.
> Installing task-sjs (1.0-r0) to root...
> Downloading file:/home/chris/yocto/ebox3300-build/tmp/deploy/ipk/ 
> Vortex86DX/task-sjs_1.0-r0_Vortex86DX.ipk.
> Unknown package 'run-postinsts'.
> Collected errors:
>   * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following  
> dependencies for task-poky-boot:
>   * 	tinylogin * 	busybox * 	modutils-initscripts * 	initscripts * 	 
> console-tools * 	initscripts * 	udev * 	sysvinit * 	netbase * 	base- 
> passwd *
>   * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package task-poky-boot.
>   * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following  
> dependencies for task-sjs:
>   * 	yocto-wallboard * 	psplash * 	syslinux *
>   * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package task-sjs.
>   * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package run-postinsts.
> ERROR: Function 'do_rootfs' failed (see ...
> 
> If I look in tmp/work, it looks as if the missing dependencies have  
> all been built and packaged within their work areas.
> 
> I tried cleaning and rebuilding 'task-sjs', but that made no  
> difference to the errors reported against it.
> 
> Where should I start looking to work out what's going wrong here? Is  
> it as simple as needing to add something like RDEPENDS?

This sounds like the machine specific packages are failing to be found
so it sounds like a package feed issue. Is sounds like PACKAGE_ARCHS
isn't listing everything it needs to (such as the machine name) or the
package system isn't finding a group of packages for some other reason.

Cheers,

Richard