[oe] wrongly populated image

[Robert Schuster]

Hi,
I have two problems with current OE. I am not sure if they are related
so I explain both. I am using the latest revision of bitbake-1.8 from
SVN and am building angstrom for the beagleboard.

1)
Whenever OE wants to build angstrom-feed-configs I get the following big
python error:

ERROR: Error in executing:
/home/rob/oe/org.openembedded.dev/packages/angstrom/angstrom-feed-configs.bb
ERROR: Exception:<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
Message:do_split_packages() got an unexpected keyword argument 'allow_links'
ERROR: Printing the environment of the function
ERROR: 	0001:def populate_packages():
ERROR: 	0002:	etcdir = bb.data.expand('${sysconfdir}/opkg', d)
ERROR: 	0003:	do_split_packages(d, etcdir, '^locale-(.*)\.conf$',
'angstrom-locale-%s-config', 'Angstrom feed config for the %s locale',
extra_depends='', allow_links=True)
ERROR: 	0004:	import glob, stat, errno, re
ERROR: 	0005:
ERROR: 	0006:	workdir = bb.data.getVar('WORKDIR', d, 1)
ERROR: 	0007:	if not workdir:

I am not a python expert but this looks as if the function arguments are
used by names. However I see nothing special about 'allow_links' so I
wonder why it fails with this one. I am running this on a Debian
GNU/Linux amd64 box. Python is 2.5.2 if that helps.

I can get around this problem by temporarily declaring allow_links=True
in package.bbclass and remove that same string from the
do_split_packages call in angstrom-feed-configs.

This brought me to the next problem:

2)
I want to build a bootable image. I chose a rather small one and
everything looks fine when doing 'bitbake x11-image' (= no errors). I
get a my .tar file and unpack it on an SD card (like I did many times
before).
However booting fails because there is no 'init' executable on the
image. Upon inspection of *-x11-image-*-testlab/installed-packages.txt I
see that there is no busybox on the image. Also other important stuff
like the kernel and dropbear/openssh-sshd is missing. On the other hand
my new 'openjdk-6-jre' package is on the filesystem although I have
never asked to anyone to do this.

Anyone having an idea what could have gone wrong here?

Regards
Robert


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