Hello everyone, in the section 4.2. Configuring the PMS of the Yocto ADT manual, it describes adding packages to a target sysroot using OPKG. This method works well as documented. However my choice of package manager is Yocto's default - RPM. And I was not able to successfully install RPM packages in the SDK sysroot.
Ultimately, I think installing RPM packages using SmartPM fails because the list of installed packages is not included in the SDK sysroot. A deployable image contains a file called Packages in /var/lib/rpm. The SDK sysroot does not have this file and shows 0 installed packages when I run `smart stats`. Note that when I am using OPKG instead of RPM, I have the equivalent package index file in /var/lib/opkg/lists for both sysroot and deployable images. I can still attempt to install a package, but it quite literally wants to rebuild the entire rootfs. For example, running `smart install opencv-dev` warns that it has to install 400 packages. These packages include base-files, bash, m4, make, python-dev etc. So this makes me think that either RPM is not supported in SDK sysroot or the feature is incomplete. It's also possible that I have missed an important detail. I will be looking into the sdk class and the package manager class to see what's really happening. In the meanwhile I'd appreciate if someone can provide some pointers! Thanks, Adam
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