Re: [poky] [PATCH 0/6] Fix a number of rpm/zypper issues and related

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 11:15 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> This set of patches is believed for fix a number packaging, rpm and zypper
> related problems.
> 
> The first patch is necessary for debug information on packages with specific
> filenames embedded in them.
> 
> The second patch fixes a bug that is likely to affect a system only in the
> future if rpm, berkeley db or the way the DB is used changes significantly.
> 
> The third fix makes a minor change to the way zypper identifies the system
> release.  I'm not 100% convinced this is necessary, we may choose to skip it
> as we don't have a file similar to "redhat-release" to scan for, for a
> system-wide version.
> 
> The fourth/fifth packages fix the sat-solver.  Fourth uprevs the 
> sat-solver to the latest version and enables gdb debugging info.  The fifth
> adds a workaround suggested by the sat-solver maintainer for an RPM5
> incompatibility as noted in the comments.
> 
> The sixth and final patch finally resolves the "repackage error" message
> generated by rpm when upgrades or package removals occur.
> 
> Pull URL: git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib.git
>   Branch: mhatle/bernard/fixes
>   Browse: http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=mhatle/bernard/fixes
> 
> Thanks,
>     Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
> ---
> 
> 
> Mark Hatle (6):
>   package.bbclass: Fix missing debug src files
>   rootfs_rpm.bbclass: Add additional system configuration to RPM space
>   libzypp: Fix release query
>   sat-solver: uprev to the latest version
>   sat-solver: Add workaround for RPM 5 db construction
>   rpm: Disable repackage on upgrade/erasure by default

I merged these with the debug line from the package.bbclass removed.

Hopefully this should get zypper working nicely, thanks for the work on
this.

Cheers,

Richard