[Review] RPM support from Poky

[Review] RPM support from Poky

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Hi

Few years ago we got partially working RPM support (which no one used). 
When Intel acquired OpenedHand there was lot of work put in getting RPM 
support really working. We got:

- creating of RPM packages (with deps, recommends)
- creating images from RPM packages
- creating images from feeds with RPM packages
- installing packages on devices (from file or feeds)

Thanks to the fact that OpenEmbedded uses git I was able to extract all 
required patches to get it imported from Poky. Result is available as 
'hrw/poky-rpm' branch on OE git server. 

It is not tested yet (build in progress). Any testers/reviewers are 
welcome.

Regards, 
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Re: [Review] RPM support from Poky

[Koen Kooi]

On 19-11-08 12:37, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Hi
>
> Few years ago we got partially working RPM support (which no one used).
> When Intel acquired OpenedHand there was lot of work put in getting RPM
> support really working. We got:
>
> - creating of RPM packages (with deps, recommends)
> - creating images from RPM packages
> - creating images from feeds with RPM packages
> - installing packages on devices (from file or feeds)
>
> Thanks to the fact that OpenEmbedded uses git I was able to extract all
> required patches to get it imported from Poky. Result is available as
> 'hrw/poky-rpm' branch on OE git server.
>
> It is not tested yet (build in progress). Any testers/reviewers are
> welcome.

The non RPM bits look ok to me, I don't know anything about RPM so I 
won't comment about that.

regards,

Koen