Re: [Ltib] Where does rootfs/var/lib/rpm and content come from?

[Peter Barada]

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 18:11 -0300, Rogério de Souza Moraes wrote:
> Hi peter,
>
> the packages rpm come from the source that ltib downloads from his
> repository. While the ltib is being compiled, he creates the the
> packages in the folder rpm/ inside your ltib root dir. After
> installing the package, he is deleted from your system if you are
> executing the command "ltib -c". So if you want to use the rpm command
> to list the packages that are installed in your ltib you can execute
> the following command:
>
> "rpm --dbpath /<ltib_root_dir/rootfs/var/lib/rpm -qa"
>
> To list the files that one package install in your rootfs execute:
>
> "rpm --dbpath /<ltib_root_dir/rootfs/var/lib/rpm -ql <package_name>"

Are these executed on the target?  If so, couldn't the installation of this information be done based on whether RPM is installed on the target?  If I'm not using RPM on the target, can I punt this information by adding it to the "remove directories list" in the sysconfig?

If its used by LTIB itself as part of the build process, I'm leery of it being placed in the rootfs directory itself, perhaps it belongs in tmp/ instead of rootfs/ ...


> Regards
>
> Rogério
>
> 2009/9/8 Peter Barada <address@hidden>:
> > I'm building up a YAFFS2 rootfs for OMAP3, and I'm a bit confoozed.
> >
> > I see in my resultant rootfs (and rootfs.tmp staging area), the directory
> > var/lib/rpm that contains about 4MB of stuff:
> >
> > address@hidden:~/work/logic/svn/LTIB/trunk/ltib-torpedo$ ls -l
> > rootfs/var/lib/rpm
> > total 3916
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   335872 2009-09-08 16:22 Basenames
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Conflictname
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   24576 2009-09-08 16:34 __db.001
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 1318912 2009-09-08 16:34 __db.002
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  663552 2009-09-08 16:34 __db.003
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    77824 2009-09-08 16:22 Dirnames
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   352256 2009-09-08 16:22 Filemd5s
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Group
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root     8192 2009-09-08 16:22 Installtid
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Name
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  1466368 2009-09-08 16:22 Packages
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Providename
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Provideversion
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Requirename
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root     8192 2009-09-08 16:22 Requireversion
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Sha1header
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Sigmd5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Triggername
> > address@hidden:~/work/logic/svn/LTIB/trunk/ltib-torpedo$
> >
> > However, the following command on the host:
> >
> > for i in `find rpm/RPMS -name '*.rpm'`; do rpm --root `pwd`/rootfs -ql -p
> > $i; done
> >
> > doesn't show /var/lib/rpm, or any of the files in that directory as
> > belonging to any RPM.
> >
> > So my question is:
> >
> > 1) Where does rootfs/var/lib/rpm and content come from?
> > 2) Is it desperately necessary or can I strip it out to save space?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > --
> > Peter Barada <address@hidden>
> > Logic Product Development, Inc.
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Peter Barada <address@hidden>
Logic Product Development, Inc.