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[levi45@]

Why is it building rpm stuff?

Not sure why building it this is the command

 

MACHINE=pulse4k make image

[WanWizard]

Maybe someone else can chip in, I don't build that way, so my environment isn't comparable with yours.

[40H3X]

I build that way, but don't use Ubuntu, but Debian

[Tech]

I use Ubuntu 2024LTS as the operating system, but my building environment is just like that of Wanwizard, so I can't really help you on your way.

[levi45@]

Could you please share your ways if you can ?

 

I use Ubuntu 2024LTS as the operating system, but my building environment is just like that of Wanwizard, so I can't really help you on your way.

 

[Tech]

I use the same method we use on our build servers, which I can't really share because it's of no use to you.

 

Furthermore, I have installed all the packages as listed in the wiki on my machine, otherwise I did not have to do any special things at all.

 

sudo apt install sed wget cvs subversion git-core git-lfs \
coreutils unzip texi2html texinfo docbook-utils \
gawk python3-distutils diffstat help2man make gcc build-essential g++ \
desktop-file-utils chrpath default-jre gettext zip libssl-dev

[WanWizard]

Could you please share your ways if you can ?

 

That is very difficult, we use automated build pipelines with all sorts of custom configuration and scripting, specific to our build server system.

 

Given the fact that building on Ubuntu 2024 LTS works ( I know Tech builds both develop and scarthgap images ) and the standard make file works fine on Debian ( also develop and scarthgap ), I don't think that is how the issue can be solved.

 

The issue must be related to your local configuration, if OE suddenly starts building RPM packages, that is outside of meta-openpli, and therefore outside our influence.

[Tech]

The fact that RPM packages are being built is indeed strange, especially because Ubuntu uses deb packages

[WanWizard]

It's not related to the host, you can configure OE to use rpm or deb instead of opkg, and perhaps there are specific packages that force that switch?

[WanWizard]

update-rc.d has rpm as a dependency, which needs rpm-native. Appearently even when it isn't used as package manager.

 

Do you have rpm tools installed on the host?

 

I build on Redhat, so I have everything available and am not representative.

[el bandido]

Ubuntu 24.04 seems to have many errors for me when trying to build a PLi image. Ubuntu 24.04 is installed on a separate partition of my computer to see if it is something I want to migrate to later. Right now though, 24.04 is not a distribution I am interested in using for image building until it matures a bit.
 

Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS  is what I currently use to build PLi and OE type images. You should not have any problems with 20.04 Ubuntu if you setup correctly to build images.

Pretty much anyone can setup a compatible Ubuntu distro and image build with it using the command: MACHINE=<your machine here>  make image or make image feed. It will take somewhere between 7000 and roughly 20,000 steps to complete the image build. 
 

Build errors are common due to the number of steps involved for a successful build.  Being able to solve the errors is the difference between someone just building an image and someone knowing how to build an image.
 

As for rpm, a search shows many things being built in scarthgap with rpm somewhere in the path. Scarthgap builds but is not usable for the Octagon SF8008. The Scarthgap SF8008 image boots, but the resolution of the menus are way off. I am certain this will be corrected at some point.