[oe] DEPLOY_DIR / packaged staging / persistent toolchains

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:16:16PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 07-04-09 19:43, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>> if you don't have opkg in your system PATH, you may need to
>> remove opkg packages from pstage to force rebuilding and installing it. 
>> Its a
>> chicken and egg problem - opkg-native binary is in .ipk and in order to
>> install and use it you need opkg-native...
>
> That's not true:
>
> PSTAGE_PKGMANAGER = "stage-manager-ipkg"
>
> [..]
>
>     pkgmanager = bb.which(path, 'opkg-cl')
>     if pkgmanager == "":
>         pkgmanager = bb.which(path, 'ipkg-cl')
>     if pkgmanager != "":
>         bb.data.setVar("PSTAGE_PKGMANAGER", pkgmanager, d)
>
>
> stage-manager-ipkg is a shell script (flashback to the original ipkg 
> implementation), which will get used till opkg-cl is found in $PATH.

Hmm, good to know - thanks! I wonder why it doesn't always work, as reported 
on irc? The workaround so far was to delete the opkg package from pstage...

-- 
Denys