Bug 5278

Summary:	bitbake package-index does not work properly for rpm
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	corneliux.stoicescu, jessica.zhang, mark.hatle, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version:	1.4
Target Milestone:	1.5
Hardware:	All
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Paul Eggleton 2013-09-26 13:10:46 UTC

If you run bitbake package-index when using the RPM backend it is not unlikely it will fail with the following:

ERROR: There are no packages in /path/to/tmp/deploy/rpm!

Looking at the log you can tell it is not looking at the correct list of package architectures, and the reason for this is that package_update_index_rpm() uses MULTILIB_PREFIX_LIST which is only set (separately) when populate_sdk_rpm or rootfs_rpm are inherited, which is not the case for the package-index recipe. Even if it does not fail it will not be indexing all of the package architectures.

Fixing this properly will require some refactoring. In the meantime I have a stopgap fix that I will be sending for 1.5.

Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2013-09-29 10:53:01 UTC

Fix merged to master:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=2f64fae60b3f61a2c45dc9e5314d2d16b1e64605

I've entered bug 5286 to cover the refactoring, so I'll mark this one as resolved.

Comment 2 Stoicescu Cornel 2013-10-01 13:04:59 UTC

'bitbake package-index' works after the fix. Verified in:
poky master:2f64fae60b3f61a2c45dc9e5314d2d16b1e64605