[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL 10/30] classes/rootfs_deb: use more reliable check for package existence

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Mon Jul 16 15:47:16 UTC 2012


From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>

It turns out "apt-cache showpkg" does return some information when a
package does not exist but another package recommends it, which can
occur for empty *-dev packages; so use "apt-cache policy" with a
different line count instead.

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>
---
 meta/classes/rootfs_deb.bbclass |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/classes/rootfs_deb.bbclass b/meta/classes/rootfs_deb.bbclass
index 4ea71da..67871a9 100644
--- a/meta/classes/rootfs_deb.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/rootfs_deb.bbclass
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ list_package_recommends() {
 }
 
 rootfs_check_package_exists() {
-	if [ `apt-cache showpkg $1 | wc -l` -gt 2 ]; then
+	if [ `apt-cache policy $1 | wc -l` -gt 4 ]; then
 		echo $1
 	fi
 }
-- 
1.7.7.6





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