[oe] Debian packages and angstrom

[David Hemmo]

Hello,

When I set ANGSTROM_PKG_FORMAT = "deb"in my local.conf file, I get the error:

These are usually caused by circular dependencies and any circular dependency chains found will be printed below. Increase the debug level to see a list of unbuildable tasks.

Identifying dependency loops (this may take a short while)...

ERROR: 
Dependency loop #1 found:
  Task 56 (virtual:native:/home/owner/dvt/OE/angstrom/sources/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.8.7.bb, do_install) (dependent Tasks ['dpkg, do_compile'])
  Task 57 (virtual:native:/home/owner/dvt/OE/angstrom/sources/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.8.7.bb, do_populate_sysroot) (dependent Tasks ['dpkg, do_install'])
  Task 60 (virtual:native:/home/owner/dvt/OE/angstrom/sources/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.8.7.bb, do_configure) (dependent Tasks ['autoconf, do_populate_sysroot', 'gnu-config, do_populate_sysroot', 'gettext, do_populate_sysroot', 'automake, do_populate_sysroot', 'gettext-minimal-native, do_populate_sysroot', 'dpkg, do_patch', 'dpkg, do_populate_sysroot', 'libtool-native, do_populate_sysroot', 'zlib, do_populate_sysroot'])
  Task 61 (virtual:native:/home/owner/dvt/OE/angstrom/sources/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.8.7.bb, do_compile) (dependent Tasks ['dpkg, do_configure'])

Can someone help me fix this issue ?

I tried PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_deb" but angstrom overrides it 

The main reason I try to compile with debian packages is because I want to be able to use apt-get to add packages to my distribution (mainly apt-get install ubuntu-omap4-extras). Do you know another way of doing that without forcing angstrom to use debian packages ?

Thanks

David