[oe] Updating packages list

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 05:33:30PM +0500, Dmitry Vinokurov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Began working with package feeds and can't understand one thing -- when 
> Packages lists (such as tmp/deploy/ipk/Packages.gz) are updated on the 
> server side. Could anybody explain it, please?
>
> For example, I built new package, let it be helloworld, and the package 
> exist in tmp/deploy/ipk/armv5te, but there is no helloworld in 
> tmp/deploy/ipk/armv5te/Packages, Packages.gz etc.

Used to be a package-index recipe, which when built, regenrated the 
deploy/Packages* indexes.
Now there is also a standard task called do_package_update_index_ipk, which 
can be called with bitbake <pkgname> -c <taskname>

-- 
Denys