Re: Not all packages in IMAGE_PREINSTALL are installed

[Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de>]

On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 09:22 +0000, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm still trying to get my first ISAR-image going and I found
> something which I believe is a bug.
> I have a somewhat lengthy list of packages to install into the image
> and I am setting
> IMAGE_PREINSTALL in my local.conf. This contains a mixture of
> official Debian binary packages
> and local binary packages.
> 

IMAGE_PREINSTALL is supposed for the packages downloaded from remote
repos (e.g. Debian). For packages Isar builds itself (i.e. included to
local isar-apt repo) there is IMAGE_INSTALL variable.

> It starts like this:
> 
> IMAGE_PREINSTALL = "linux-image-5.10-kk jailhouse-0.12-kk arm-
> trusted-firmware-kk u-boot-xilinx-image u-boot-xilinx-tools mtd-
> utils...
> 
> However, not all packages are installed. I ran the build with debug
> and this is from the log:
> 
> ...
> 
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   arm-trusted-firmware-kk bootgen busybox cowsay cpio dmsetup enable-
> fsck
>   example-raw fsbl-cu1 init initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-core
>   isar-disable-apt-cache isar-exclude-docs klibc-utils kmod
> libapparmor1
>   libargon2-1 libbsd0 libcbor0.8 libcryptsetup12 libdevmapper1.02.1
> libedit2
>   libfdisk1 libfido2-1 libgssapi-krb5-2 libip4tc2 libjson-c5
> libk5crypto3
>   libkeyutils1 libklibc libkmod2 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0
> libncursesw6
>   libnsl2 libproc2-0 libsystemd-shared libtext-charwidth-perl
> libtirpc-common
>   libtirpc3 libwrap0 linux-base linux-image-5.10-kk openssh-client
>   openssh-server openssh-sftp-server pmu-fw-cu1 procps runit-helper
> samefile
>   sensible-utils sshd-regen-keys systemd systemd-sysv u-boot-zynqmp-
> image
>   u-boot-zynqmp-tools ucf udev
> ...
> 
> And the system is able to download the local packages from the
> additional local Debian
> repository just fine. But why are so many packages missing? And even
> if they are missing
> why there's no error reported?
> 

You could also run build shell and execute `bitbake -e <image>` and
check actual value of IMAGE_PREINSTALL. Probably, it is overridden at
some parsing step.

>  I'm on commit 87fbe0706a2b4947a9d06a51d660aeefea7dbaf1 on master
> currently,
> 
> TIA,
> Uli
> 
> Schöne Grüße / Kind regards
> 
> 
> Dipl.-Inform. Ulrich Teichert
> Senior Software Developer
> 
> 
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-- 
Best regards,
Uladzimir.



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