[OE-core] Package management DB in old-style SDK

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Denys,

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 18:14:55 Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> I'm still using the old-style SDK (meta-toolchain) for our products due to
> some code customizations in it and some of our use cases rely on the opkg
> package management database being present in sysroots, so packages can be
> manipulated in SDK with opkg command. It appears that /var/lib/opkg is now
> empty and the package database is no longer supplied with the SDK.
> 
> I know about the new-style populate_sdk and the even newer Extensible SDK,
> but not yet ready to convert our old use cases to that. Since there were
> lots of changes around the way SDKs work in OE-Core in the past couple
> releases, I'm failing to find the change that causes opkg DB to be missing
> from the old style SDK. I'll appreciate any pointers in helping me debug
> and/or fix this issue with my SDKs. Thanks.

As far as ipk is concerned I think it was this commit: 

  http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=c8e0ec2da9ad4ce1c103966906a85f68c15400dd

Unfortunately it wasn't made optional.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre