Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v11 0/9] rpm: 4.20.1 -> 6.0.2

["Gavini, Sumanth" <sumanth.gavini@windriver.com>]

On 7/30/2026 10:39 AM, Mathieu Dubois-Briand via lists.openembedded.org 
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> On Thu Jul 30, 2026 at 1:51 AM CEST, Sumanth Gavini wrote:
>> * V11:
>>   - Added 0001-pkgconfigdeps.sh-Do-not-emit-usr-bin-pkg-config-as-a.patch
>>     To fix "bitbake core-image-minimal-dev" Could not invoke dnf. Command...
>>     pkgconfigdeps.sh unconditionally emits /usr/bin/pkg-config as a hard
>>     Requires for packages shipping .pc files. In OE/Yocto cross-compilation,
>>     pkg-config is a host-only build tool not needed on the target rootfs,
>>     causing failures with -dev packages.
>>
>> * v10:
>>    - The ARCHIVE_FILTER_RPM macro was commented out in a previous
>>      libarchive change, causing do_compile_ptest_base to fail with:
>>      error: 'ARCHIVE_FILTER_RPM' undeclared
>>      Restore the macro definition. The ptest now compiles and passes
>>      successfully.
>>
>> * V9:
>>    - Updated SRCREV to the 6.0.2 tag.
>>    - Incorporated all V8 changes and updated them as needed for 6.0.2.
>>    - Dropped
>>      0001-scripts-pkgconfigdeps.sh-Use-pkg-config-from-PATH.patch
>>      from V8, as it is no longer needed. After filtering out the
>>      /usr/bin/pkg-config file dependency, "bitbake core-image-sato -c
>>      populate_sdk" completes successfully without the patch.
>>    - Fixed the filtering of the /usr/bin/pkg-config file dependency.
>>      pkg-config is a build-time tool, not a runtime dependency. Filtered
>>      the /usr/bin/pkg-config dependency automatically detected by
>>      pkgconfig.attr for packages containing .pc files, preventing
>>      unnecessary hard runtime dependencies in -dev packages.
>>    - Removed v8 libarchive-related changes since the latest version
>>     (3.8.8) already includes the required updates.
>>    - Fixed the "oe-selftest -r debuginfod.Debuginfod.test_debuginfod_native"
>>      failure observed after upgrading to 6.0.2.
>>    - Verified that previously reported Autobuilder issues are no longer observed.
>>      The following builds/tests were successfully completed:
>>       "bitbake core-image-minimal"
>>       "bitbake core-image-full-cmdline"
>>       "bitbake core-image-sato"
>>       "bitbake core-image-sato world"
>>       "bitbake core-image-full-cmdline:do_testimage"
>>       "bitbake core-image-minimal:do_rootfs"
>>       "bitbake core-image-sato -c populate_sdk"
>>
>> * V8:
>>    - Fix build with systemd (Check patch 7 for detailes)
>>    - Make rpmbuild can find the pkgconfig (.pc) files in /usr/share/pkgconfig
>>      (Check patch 7 for detailes)
>>    - Backport a PULL from git/libarchive to fix oe-selftest failures.
>>
>> * V7:
>>    - Add 0001-scripts-pkgconfigdeps.sh-Use-pkg-config-from-PATH.patch:
>>      To fix "bitbake core-image-sato -cpopulate_sdk" error on Ubuntu 24.04 when
>>      pkg-config is installed on host, now the host contamination has been fixed,
>>      and the patch has been submitted to upstream:
>>      https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/4127
>>
>> * V6
>>    - Fix -cpopulate_sdk error when DISTRO = "poky"
>>
>> * V5
>>    - Fix RP's comments: Don't hardcode libc6 into package_rpm.bbclass
>>    - Use SKIP_LDCONFIG_POSTINST_FRAGMENT:${PN} to fix the loop dependencies
>>      between /bin/sh and libc.so.
>>
>> * V4
>>    - Fix loop dependencies issues for libc6 and busybox
>>    - Fix issues for can't find pkg-config files (.pc) on qemux86-64.
>>
>> * V3
>>    - Fix Alexender's comments
>>      a) Suppot rpm 6
>>      b) Move rpm-setup-autosign to rpm-build
>>      c) Remove -DLIBELF_FOUND=False
>>
>>    - Fix build for nativesdk-rpm
>>
>>    - Drop patch for createrepo-c since it has been upgraded (rev:
>>      804a238c8a4e86c2bcfb2192d54cb861d5fd32a6)
>>
>> * V1 & V2
>>    - Initial version
>>
>>
>> --
>> # Sumanth Gavini
>> # Wind River Linux
>>
> 
> Hi Sumanth,
> 
> Thanks for the new version.
> 
> It does look better, but we still have a lot of errors. First, another
> dnf error on core-image-sato:
> 
> ERROR: core-image-sato-1.0-r0 do_populate_sdk: Could not invoke dnf
> ...
> Error:
>   Problem 1: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(fontconfig) >= 2.13.0 needed by libcairo-dev-1.18.4-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 2: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libsolv) needed by libdnf-dev-0.75.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(sqlite3) needed by libdnf-dev-0.75.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libsolvext) needed by libdnf-dev-0.75.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 3: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(mount) >= 2.23 needed by libglib-2.0-dev-1:2.88.2-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 4: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libudev) >= 251 needed by libgudev-1.0-dev-238-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 5: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libudev) needed by libinput-dev-1.31.3-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 6: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(ncurses) needed by libreadline-dev-8.3-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 7: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libxml-2.0) needed by librepo-dev-1.20.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(openssl) needed by librepo-dev-1.20.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libcurl) needed by librepo-dev-1.20.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
> 
> ERROR: core-image-sato-sdk-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Could not invoke dnf.
> ...
> Error:
>   Problem 1: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(fontconfig) >= 2.13.0 needed by libcairo-dev-1.18.4-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 2: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(sqlite3) needed by libdnf-dev-0.75.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libsolv) needed by libdnf-dev-0.75.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libsolvext) needed by libdnf-dev-0.75.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 3: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(mount) >= 2.23 needed by libglib-2.0-dev-1:2.88.2-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 4: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libudev) >= 251 needed by libgudev-1.0-dev-238-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 5: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libudev) needed by libinput-dev-1.31.3-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 6: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(ncurses) needed by libreadline-dev-8.3-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>   Problem 7: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libxml-2.0) needed by librepo-dev-1.20.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(libcurl) needed by librepo-dev-1.20.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(openssl) needed by librepo-dev-1.20.0-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
> ...
> 
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/68/builds/4362
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/19/builds/4253
> 
> 
> Some ptest images are also failing:
> 
> ERROR: core-image-ptest-glib-2.0-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Could not invoke dnf.
> ...
> Error:
>   Problem: package libglib-2.0-ptest-1:2.88.2-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo requires glib-2.0-dev, but none of the providers can be installed
>    - conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides pkgconfig(mount) >= 2.23 needed by libglib-2.0-dev-1:2.88.2-r0.x86_64_v3 from oe-repo
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
> 
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/110/builds/819
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/73/builds/4163
> 
> 
> And also the libarchive ptest are failing:
> 
> AssertionError:
> Failed ptests:
> {'libarchive': ['libarchive_test']}
> 
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/61/builds/4145
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/56/builds/2031
> 
> 
> Can you have a look at the issues?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mathieu
> 
> --
> Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com
> 
> 
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Hi Mathieu,

In V11 patch 
0001-pkgconfigdeps.sh-Do-not-emit-usr-bin-pkg-config-as-a.patch should 
resolve the "pkgconfig could not invoke dnf" error"

I have successfully verified the following:
bitbake core-image-sato-sdk:do_populate_sdk
bitbake core-image-sato-sdk:do_rootfs

Both completed successfully on my side.
Could you please verify again and let me know if you still encounter the 
issue?

Below is my local.conf:
MACHINE ??= "qemux86-64"
PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_rpm package_deb package_ipk"
INHERIT += 'image-buildinfo'
IMAGE_BUILDINFO_VARS:append = ' IMAGE_BASENAME IMAGE_NAME'
IMAGE_INSTALL:append = ' ssh-pregen-hostkeys'
SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS = ''
OEQA_TESTDISPLAY = ':1'
EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES ?= 'allow-empty-password empty-root-password 
allow-root-login'
#OE_FRAGMENTS += 'machine/qemux86-64 distro/poky'
IMAGE_CLASSES += "testimage"

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# Sumanth Gavini
# Wind River Linux