Dariusz on Software

Recently I've hit problem that some package was silently not installed in rootfs. The reason was visible only in debug mode:

$ bitbake -D
(...)
Collected errors:
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package libnexus.
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package libnexus-dbg.
 * resolve_conffiles: Existing conffile /home/sdk/master/wow.mach/tmp/rootfs/sdk-image/etc/default/dropbear
is different from the conffile in the new package. The new conffile will be placed
at /home/sdk/master/wow.mach/tmp/rootfs/sdk-image/etc/default/dropbear-opkg.
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package libpng.
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package libpng-dbg.
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package directfb.
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package directfb-dbg.
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package libuuid-dbg.
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package comp-hal wants to install file /home/sdk/master/wow.mach/tmp/rootfs/sdk-image/etc/hosts But that file is already provided by package * netbase-dcc
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package package1.

/etc/hosts file was clashes with one from netbase-dcc package. The solution was to re-arrange file list for comp-hal (not include /etc/hosts there):

FILES_${PN} = "\
               (...)
               /etc \
               /usr/local/lib/cecd/plugins/*.so* \
               /usr/local/lib/qtopia/plugins/*.so* \
               (...)

/etc specification was replaced by more detailed description:

FILES_${PN} = "\
               (...)
               /etc/init.d \ /etc/rc3.d \
               /usr/local/lib/cecd/plugins/*.so* \
               /usr/local/lib/qtopia/plugins/*.so* \
               (...)