Adding .ipk files to root image

[Matt Darland]

On Thursday 03 April 2008 07:37:39 pm Cliff Brake wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Matt Darland <mdarland at pager.net> wrote:
> > How do I cause an .ipk file to be unpacked into my root image at build
> > time?
> >
> >  More specifically, I'd like an
> >  qtopiacore-plugin-imageformat-jpeg_4.3.3-r3_i586.ipk file that is under
> >  deploy/ipk to be 'installed' to my image. I tried adding it to various
> > forms of the ipk name to my IMAGE_INSTALL variable, but I get a missing
> > dependency error when I run bitbake.
>
> Adding qtopiacore-plugin-imageformat-jpeg to IMAGE_INSTALL should do
> it.  Can you paste the error message?
>
> Cliff


Could this be because I used task-qtopia-core-gui in my IMAGE_INSTALL (see 
further below) instead of qtopia?
 
Error message:
NOTE: Handling BitBake files: - (5350/5350) [100 %]
NOTE: Parsing finished. 5122 cached, 1 parsed, 227 skipped, 0 masked.
NOTE: build 200804040804: started

OE Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION     = "1.8.11"
OE_REVISION    = "<unknown>"
TARGET_ARCH    = "i586"
TARGET_OS      = "linux"
MACHINE        = "geodelx"
DISTRO         = "t7502"
DISTRO_VERSION = "20080404"
TARGET_FPU     = ""

NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
ERROR: '['/home/mdarland/Development/openembedded/overlay-t7502/packages/images/t7502-image.bb']' 
RDEPENDS/RRECOMMENDS or otherwise requires the runtime 
entity 'qtopiacore-plugin-imageformat-jpeg' but it wasn't found in any 
PACKAGE or RPROVIDES variables
NOTE: Runtime target 'qtopiacore-plugin-imageformat-jpeg' is unbuildable, 
removing...
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: 
['qtopiacore-plugin-imageformat-jpeg']
ERROR: Required build target 't7502-image' has no buildable providers.
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: 
['t7502-image', 'qtopiacore-plugin-imageformat-jpeg']




Here's my image file:
require packages/images/minimal-image.bb

IMAGE_INSTALL += "                   \
  grub                               \
  e2fsprogs-e2fsck e2fsprogs-mke2fs  \
  gdbserver                          \
  lsof                               \
  minicom                            \
  pciutils                           \
  pciutils-ids                       \
  strace                             \
  tcpdump                            \
  usbutils                           \
  ncurses-terminfo                   \
  avahi-daemon                       \
  cups                               \
  ntp                                \
  rsync                              \
  task-qtopia-core-gui               \
  qtopiacore-fonts                   \
  qtopiacore-plugin-imageformat-jpeg \
  viewtest                           \
  "

export IMAGE_BASENAME = "t7502-image"

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Matt