Re: [PATCH] lib/oe/rootfs: Fix DEBUGFS generation when using opkg

[Alejandro del Castillo <alejandro.delcastillo@ni.com>]

On 05/02/2016 08:39 AM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 14:51 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> When enabling extra DEBUGFS image generation with opkg, errors are seen like:
>>
>> ERROR: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Cannot get the installed packages list. Command '/media/build1/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/opkg -f /media/build1/poky/build/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/opkg.conf -o /media/build1/poky/build/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs  --force_postinstall --prefer-arch-to-version   status' returned 0 and stderr:
>> Collected errors:
>>  * file_md5sum_alloc: Failed to open
>> file /media/build1/poky/build/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs/etc/syslog-startup.conf.busybox: No such file or directory.
>>  * file_md5sum_alloc: Failed to open
>> file /media/build1/poky/build/tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs/etc/fstab: No such file or directory.
>>
>> basically for all CONFFILES in the image. This is due to the file
>> rearranging
>> the rootfs generation code does. If we preserve the /etc directory,
>> the avoids the problem.
> 
> It avoids the problem, but it does not address the root cause (IMHO).
> Should opkg really complain about missing configuration files? It is
> perhaps an edge case, but besides editing a configuration file
> *removing* it entirely may also be a valid user modification.
> 
> The usage of opkg here is during image building, but the operation
> itself (opkg status) is not specific to image creation and thus should
> be able to handle arbitrary states of /etc and the config files in
> general.

Opkg status is supposed to give you the state of all your installed packages.
Currently is pretty rough data: it dumps into stdout the internal metadata that
tracks package info and promotes to error any inconsistency, like conffiles not
being present.

Looking at pacakge_manager.py, opkg status is being called on OpkgPkgsList.
Seems to me that if the purpose is to get all installed packages, then "opkg
list-installed" is the correct command. Looking at dpkg (DpkgPkgsList),
"dpkg-query -W" is being called, which I think maps to opkg list-installed, not
to opkg status.

-- 
Cheers,

Alejandro