Re: Package management DB in old-style SDK

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 01:38:23PM +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:01:27 Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:35:29AM +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > Hi Denys,
> > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 18:14:55 Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > > > I'm still using the old-style SDK (meta-toolchain) for our products due
> > > > to some code customizations in it and some of our use cases rely on the
> > > > opkg package management database being present in sysroots, so packages
> > > > can be manipulated in SDK with opkg command. It appears that
> > > > /var/lib/opkg is now empty and the package database is no longer
> > > > supplied with the SDK.
> > > > 
> > > > I know about the new-style populate_sdk and the even newer Extensible
> > > > SDK, but not yet ready to convert our old use cases to that. Since there
> > > > were lots of changes around the way SDKs work in OE-Core in the past
> > > > couple releases, I'm failing to find the change that causes opkg DB to
> > > > be missing from the old style SDK. I'll appreciate any pointers in
> > > > helping me debug and/or fix this issue with my SDKs. Thanks.
> > > 
> > > As far as ipk is concerned I think it was this commit:
> > >   http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=c8e0ec2da9ad4c
> > >   e1c103966906a85f68c15400dd> 
> > > Unfortunately it wasn't made optional.
> > 
> > Thanks, Paul!
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the change is in the library, which is quite difficult to
> > override in another layer...
> > 
> > Will there be any objections for making that change optional with the
> > default being like it is now, but with the ability to restore the old way
> > with a variable?
> 
> As long as we make it have the same effect across the three different package 
> managers, no objection from me at least. Thinking about it we could even make 
> it switch based on package-management being in SDKIMAGE_FEATURES and then it 
> would be consistent with how it works for images as well.

Hi, Paul,

I submitted a patch yesterday to make the discussed change - can you please 
review and provide feedback? Thanks.

-- 
Denys