Re: [OE-core] Shouldn't packages for all PACKAGE_CLASSES be generated?

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

On Thu, 2024-02-01 at 13:47 +0100, Michael Opdenacker via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm surprised by this behavior, which I didn't expect... I'm running 
> "bitbake core-image-cmdline-full; bitbake generate-index" from Poky master.
> 
> with PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_ipk package_rpm package_deb"...
> 
> find tmp/deploy/deb -name *.deb | wc; find tmp/deploy/rpm -name *.rpm | 
> wc; find tmp/deploy/ipk -name *.ipk | wc
>     1918    1918  129927
>     1918    1918  135794
>     5404    5404  393252
> 
> with PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_rpm package_deb package_ipk"...
> 
> find tmp/deploy/deb -name *.deb | wc; find tmp/deploy/rpm -name *.rpm | 
> wc; find tmp/deploy/ipk -name *.ipk | wc
>     1918    1918  129927
>     5404    5404  393606
>     1918    1918  135584
> 
> with PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_deb package_ipk package_rpm"...
> 
> find tmp/deploy/deb -name *.deb | wc; find tmp/deploy/rpm -name *.rpm | 
> wc; find tmp/deploy/ipk -name *.ipk | wc
>     5404    5404  376187
>     1918    1918  135794
>     1918    1918  135584
> 
> So, more packages are generated to the first item in PACKAGE_CLASSES.
> 
> It's expected to have the first item in PACKAGE_CLASSES that is used to 
> generate the image, but I expected all packages to be generated for all 
> package types anyway. Isn't this the expected behavior? Otherwise, how 
> would you generate 3 types of feeds (rpm, deb and ipk) at the same time?

This is expected for various reasons, try adding --runall build to the
command.

Cheers,

Richard