[OE-core] Broken BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS support

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 11:45 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It seems BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS support, in ipk, is broken.
> 
> I checked and the rootfs_ipk is writting the contents into the opkg's
> status file however it seems opkg when starts to install the packages
> it overwrites or ignores it. People at IRC confirmated that this also
> happens to them and thus this is indeed broken.
> 
> Do someone know how I can debug opkg to see what's going on?

You can add -V4 to ${ipkg_args} in package_install_internal_ipk() to get
more verbosity, though the output is not always especially illuminating.
It might be easiest to just hack the scripting so that it bails out at
that point and then run opkg-cl by hand under the debugger.

p.