[OE-core] MIPS rootfs creation failure

[Koen Kooi]

Op 22 mrt 2011, om 19:44 heeft Khem Raj het volgende geschreven:

> On (22/03/11 19:42), Koen Kooi wrote:
>> 
>> Op 22 mrt 2011, om 19:10 heeft Khem Raj het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> I did an update of oe-core yesterday and now mips is failing with this
>>> error. It was not there 2 days back.
>>> 
>>> | Configuring sysvinit.
>>> | Collected errors:
>>> |  * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies
>>> for task-base:
>>> |  *    kernel-misc *
>>> |  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package task-base.
>>> NOTE: package console-image-1.0-r0: task do_rootfs: Failed
>>> 
>>> I have not bisected but if anyone else is seeing it I would like to know
>> 
>> I think thats fallout from the kernel.bbclass change:
>> 
>> meta/classes/kernel.bbclass:FILES_kernel-misc = "/kernel/include/config /kernel/scripts /kernel/drivers/crypto /kernel
>> 
>> I don't know what purpose that package has, but try rebuilding the kernel and see what happens. We might need to blacklist it from being included in the kernel-modules meta-package.
>> 
> 
> I have already build everything from scratch even deleted sstate cache

Can you give this a try?

koen at dominion:/OE/tentacle/sources/openembedded-core/meta/classes$ git diff kernel.bbclass 
diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index 3eb6659..9f014d4 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ python populate_packages_prepend () {
        metapkg = "kernel-modules"
        bb.data.setVar('ALLOW_EMPTY_' + metapkg, "1", d)
        bb.data.setVar('FILES_' + metapkg, "", d)
-       blacklist = [ 'kernel-dev', 'kernel-image', 'kernel-base', 'kernel-vmlinux', 'perf' ]
+       blacklist = [ 'kernel-dev', 'kernel-image', 'kernel-base', 'kernel-vmlinux', 'perf', 'kernel-misc' ]
        for l in module_deps.values():
                for i in l:
                        pkg = module_pattern % legitimize_package_name(re.match(module_regex, os.path.basename(i)).gro

I think that should go in regardless, but I'm curious if it fixes your problem. The meta-pkg should only pickup kernel-module-* and kernel-firmware-*, so a whitelist would be even bettter.