From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41CD4C80FA5 for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 06:21:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 756DD16602BB; Wed, 4 May 2011 05:21:25 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2-r929478 (2010-03-31) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2-r929478 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BAB1660285; Wed, 4 May 2011 05:21:24 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4DC136B4.208@mlbassoc.com> Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 05:21:24 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hatle References: <4DC08B17.2070907@mlbassoc.com> <4DC09186.8010905@windriver.com> <4DC0AFCC.9080201@mlbassoc.com> <4DC0DAC8.8090005@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <4DC0DAC8.8090005@windriver.com> Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: Zypper question X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 11:21:26 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------