[OE-core] MIPS vs MIPS32 tunings -- summary and questions

[Andreas Oberritter]

On 18.04.2012 13:45, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> On 18.04.2012 13:40, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 13:30 +0200, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
>>> now, after having repacked all binary tarballs that had mipsel or
>>> mipsel-nf in their name and contents, and after having changed all
>>> occurrences of mipsel and mipsel-nf in my local recipes (where
>>> appropriate), and after having rebuilt everything from scratch again, it
>>> came to my attention that "mipsel" in PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS breaks opkg,
>>> because no mipsel packages are being generated. That's what I told
>>> before, right?
>>
>> How is this breaking opkg? We often have architectures listed in there
>> for which there are no packages generated (all, noarch and any spring to
>> mind)?
> 
> Downloading http://10.0.0.1/mipsel/Packages.gz.
> wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
> Collected errors:
>  * opkg_download: Failed to download http://10.0.0.1/mipsel/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.

That is, because although noarch and any are part of ${PACKAGE_ARCHS},
they are not part of ${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS}.

distro-feed-configs.bb uses "all ${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS} ${MACHINE_ARCH}".

Regards,
Andreas