Re: Zypper question

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 05/03/2011 10:49 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 5/3/11 8:45 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 05/03/2011 05:36 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
>>> On 5/3/11 6:09 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to set up zypper on a qemu based system.  I've built
>>>> the image&   additional packages in 192.168.1.125:/local/qemu_test/tmp/deploy/rpm/
>>>> This system is running lighttpd and has the path http://192.168.1.125/qemu-repo
>>>> set to that path.  I verified it by fetching http://192.168.1.125/qemu-repo/solvedb.conf
>>>> which shows up as
>>>>      /local/qemu_test/tmp/deploy/rpm/qemux86/solvedb
>>>>      /local/qemu_test/tmp/deploy/rpm/i586/solvedb
>>>>      /local/qemu_test/tmp/deploy/rpm/all/solvedb
>>>>
>>>> On the QEMU system, I ran
>>>>      # zypper addrepo http://192.168.1.125/qemu-repo yocto
>>>>      # zypper refresh
>>>> No errors were reported
>>>>
>>>> When I tried to install a package, I got this:
>>>>      # zypper install gst-plugins-base
>>>>      Error building the cache.
>>>>      [1] Repository type can't be determined.
>>>>      warning: Disabling repository 'yocto' because of the above error.
>>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Note: I tried to follow https://wiki.pokylinux.org/wiki/Zypper_Repository_Setup
>>>> Can I help with this (edit the page, etc)?  If so, how do I get a login?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is odd.  I didn't experience these issues when I was doing the development
>>> / testing.
>>>
>>>>  From the above there is an "Error building the cache."  the only caching steps
>>> that occur during an install is a sync of the system's RPM cache.  If something
>>> is wrong there you can get a similar error.
>>>
>>> Try simply running "rpm -qa" and make sure you get reasonable output.  If not,
>>> then RPM isn't installed properly.  (By default on a minimal system, the RPM
>>> database is removed after the rootfs is populated.)
>>
>> 'rpm -qa ' worked just fine.
>>
>> I started with core-image-sato, so it's a pretty complete system to start.
>>
>> Do I have the repo stuff set up correctly?  I can see from the lighttpd logs
>> that it seems to be looking for files I don't have:
>>     192.168.7.2 192.168.1.125 - [03/May/2011:16:57:38 -0600] "HEAD /qemu-repo/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 0 "-" "ZYpp 8.11.0 (curl 7.21.2)"
>>     192.168.7.2 192.168.1.125 - [03/May/2011:16:57:38 -0600] "HEAD /qemu-repo/content HTTP/1.1" 404 0 "-" "ZYpp 8.11.0 (curl 7.21.2)"
>> Neither of these files seems to be in tmp/deploy/rpm
>>
>> Did I miss a step?  I ran 'bitbake package-index' just in case.
>>
>>
>
> did you run createrepo on the /local/qemu_test/tmp/deploy/rpm directory?
>
> (step 4 in the wiki page)  I usually run createrepo<path>  -- but apparently it
> works if you are in the same directory...

Indeed, I missed that step.

Note: I had expected this operation to be handled by 'bitbake package-index'
Could it not be done that way so it's always the same, no matter the style
of package management?

Thanks

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