Re: Using RPM with Poky

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Monday 21 March 2011 17:00:44 Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 3/21/11 11:35 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > Also, is there documentation on how to use zypper, how to set up
> > repositories, etc?
> 
> There is no documentation yet on how to use Zypper.  Below is how I've been
> using it to test things:
> 
> 
> On the host:
> 
> 1) Build the environment -- full set of rpm packages you want available
> 
> 2) Build "createrepo-native"
> 
> 3) Copy tmp/deploy/rpm and contents of somewhere it can be accessed via
> HTTP, such as /var/www/html.
> 
> 4) Create the repository database:
> 
> <poky directory>/scripts/poky-setup-rpmrepo /var/www/html/rpm
> 
> On the target:
> 
> (assuming qemu)
> 
> 1) zypper addrepo http://192.167.7.1/rpm main
> 
> 2) zypper refresh
> 
> 3) zypper install <package>
> 
> 
> 
> Some other useful commands:
> 
> zypper info <package>
> 
> This will give you basic info on a package, and tell you if it's already
> installed (@System repository) or which remote repository it's stored in.
> 
> zypper remove <package>
> 
> This will remove a package, and clean up any other packages that are
> dependent upon it.
> 

Mark, you beat me to it :) I just finished copying this onto the wiki:

 https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Zypper_Repository_Setup

We could probably do with this in the documentation in reworked form. Scott R, 
what do you think?

Cheers,
Paul