Bug 14851

Summary: Locale archive creation breaks package feed
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Jate Sujjavanich <jatedev>
Component: deploymentAssignee: Steve Sakoman <steve>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: randy.macleod
Version: 3.1.14   
Target Milestone: 3.1.19   
Hardware: x86   
OS: x86_64   
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OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know

Description Jate Sujjavanich 2022-07-01 02:34:27 UTC 
The locale archive creation code within meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py create an archive and removes locale packages (glibc-binary-localedata-*). However, this breaks package upgrades in my distribution. I am using RPM. This is because the there is a dependency between locale-base-en-us and glibc-binary-locale-data-en-us, for example.

I have a local patch which adds a variable which disables the archive generation and locale archive. This is okay for me because I am using a low number of locales and there is not much space savings.

Another fix might include modifying glibc changing the DEPENDS to a RRECOMMENDS. There would have to be upgrades of archives outside of the package manager, however.
Comment 1 Jate Sujjavanich 2022-07-06 17:19:31 UTC 
This was fixed on the master branch. lib/oe/package_manager.py was converted to a module/directory lib/oe/package_manager/__init__.py. The patch applies, so I've submitted it to the mailing list.