Re: ISAR_REBUILD_ESSENTIAL_PKGS - upgrade packages present in isar-bootstrap

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 11.10.23 23:00, Hombourger, Cedric (DI SW CAS ES LI) wrote:
> On 11/10/2023 10:27, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 11.10.23 09:05, 'cedric.hombourger@siemens.com' via isar-users wrote:
>>> Hello Adriaan, Uladzimir,
>>>
>>> ISAR_REBUILD_ESSENTIAL_PKGS (as I understand it) injects dependencies to
>>> all non-essential recipes to make sure such packages are built first.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't we also need to upgrade them when we bootstrap the image?
>>>
>>> For example, if my layer ships a customized recipe for the base-files
>>> package, we would want my custom version to be in the image, not Debian's.
>>>
>>> I can prepare an example to support the discussion if needed.
>> This used to be ensured by performing an update/upgrade for all packages
>> coming from isar-apt. Can you demonstrate that this is no longer the case?
> 
> Yes that's what I was hoping. I don't know if I missing something 
> obvious. Here's a (public) git repo that may be used to demonstrate the 
> problem: https://github.com/chombourger/test-isar-essential-package
> 
> I used the following grep command to check which version of my 
> customized base-files package ended-up in the image:
> 
> grep base-files 
> build/tmp/deploy/images/qemuamd64/isar-image-base-debian-bookworm-qemuamd64.manifest
> 
> I noticed that an explicit IMAGE_PREINSTALL:append = " base-files" 
> caused the version to be upgraded. Is that expected? Should we make such 
> a suggestion in the documentation?

Yeah, right, that is still needed. I wonder if we should auto-upgrade
the schroots when ISAR_REBUILD_ESSENTIAL_PKGS is non-empty.

> 
> I should also note that ISAR_REBUILD_ESSENTIAL_PKGS does not seem to add 
> dependencies between image recipes and essential packages (I had to add 
> base-files to DEPENDS to get it built)

That should work: essential.bbclass is inherited by image.bbclass, and
it adds dependencies to do_install_rootfs.

Jan

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