On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 10:25 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: > On 4/11/12 10:14 AM, Xu, Dongxiao wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > > I met a strange issue while using RPM to generate the rootfs. > > > > In the installation list, if we have 2 RPM packages, say A.rpm and > > B.rpm. package A RDEPENDS on package B. While installing the two > > packages? Does RPM ensures to install B first and then install A? > > > > The real issue is: we have certain packages that need to run > > useradd/groupadd at rootfs time, for example, the dbus. However the > > useradd/groupadd bbclass RDEPENDS on base-files, which provides > > the /etc/group file. While installing the final image, sometimes we saw > > it installs dbus firstly and then base-files, causing the > > useradd/groupadd script error since it could not find /etc/group file. > > it does enforce install order, however the /etc/group, /etc/passwd files > (last > time I checked) were being put into place by the post install scripts. The > scripting order is handled somewhat independently of the package install > order. > (post install scripts get delayed intentionally for performance reasons. > There is a way to hint a dependency for them as well...) > > The passwd/group files are fairly unique files, and generally are installed > -first- (individually) before any other packages on most RPM installations. > After that the methods and install ordering works... > But does the following log indicates the dbus-1 is installed before base-passwd?
dbus-1 ################################################## Adding system startup for /distro/sdb/build-basic/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/hob-image-hob-basic-1.0-r0/rootfs/etc/init.d/dbus-1. kernel-module-uvesafb ################################################## libusb-compat ################################################## base-passwd ################################################## Thanks, Dongxiao > --Mark > > > I tried ipk and it doesn't have problem since it ensures to install > > base-files firstly. > > > > Any comment is welcome. > > > > Thanks, > > Dongxiao > > > _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
