[oe] Merging RPM support from Poky

[Koen Kooi]

On 04-03-09 16:52, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> As some of you know Poky has RPM support written. It consists few parts:
>
> - creating RPM packages
> - creating rootfs from RPM packages
> - using RPM/YUM on device to managing packages (installing from local and
>    remote packages
>
> I had one attempt to get it merged before but it had some bugs so I started
> from scratch. Extracting required patches from pile of 1800 Poky changsets
> took me some time.
>
> With this patchset I managed to build 'minimal-image' for AT91SAM9263-EK
> machine. As distribution I used 'minimal' to get something other then
> Angstrom.
>
> So please review it (patch 67 is already merged in .dev tree).

patch 1 thru 30 look OK to go in. The python recipes aren't up to date 
with the current state of distutils.bbclass, but the effect is harmless.
I'll try to have a look at 31-70 later.

regards,

Koen