Re: [PATCH] Update poky-feed-config-opkg to generate a useful package setup

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2011-09-02 11:34, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 11:10 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2011-09-02 11:04, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 10:46 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> The current poky-feed-config-opkg package only generates a skeleton for the
>>>> opkg setups.  In particular, the base configuration file /etc/opkg/base-files.conf
>>>> is not filled in at all.
>>>>
>>>> The attached patch fills this file in, using variables set by the
>>>> user (local.conf, site.conf, etc).  If left unset, the behaviour will
>>>> be the same as current.
>>>>
>>>> One thing I found is that opkg is very noisy if there are databases
>>>> mentioned in base-files.conf that don't exist.  For example, on ARM
>>>> platforms, there are a large number of possibilities (arm, armv5, armv6, ...)
>>>> that are never populated in .../tmp/deploy/ipk.  The changes to this
>>>> recipe will prune the file to only include those ipk databases which
>>>> have actual files present.
>>>
>>> Your code is one big race unfortunately since the actual file generated
>>> will depend on whether any packaging task has run before it or not (and
>>> what package type that was). I'm not sure how to fix that but it can't
>>> go in as it stands due to that...
>>
>> I agree :-)  That's what these lines are for:
>>     do_compile[depends] += "base-files:do_package"
>>     do_compile[depends] += "virtual/kernel:do_package"
>>
>> They solve the problem for me, i.e. if I build an image which includes
>> this recipe from scratch, then the do_compile step is held off until
>> sufficient work has gone on to make the database useful.
>
> Sorry, I didn't see that on the bottom. I can't say I really like it. If
> you're going to do that you might as well just hardcode the list as:
>
> "all ${TUNE_PKGARCH} ${MACHINE}"
>
> ?

Yes, that would probably be equivalent.  Would that be an acceptable change?

Bottom line though is that the recipe currently does nothing for the
end user and I was trying to make something that would work out of
the box for "Joe Average User"

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