linaro-m-headless-tar-*.packages files don't include entry for kernel package

[Peter Maydell]

The packages manifest files like:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/10.11-daily/linaro-headless/20100929/0/images/tar/linaro-m-headless-tar-20100929-0.packages
ought to list all the packages that have gone into the tarball. However they seem to be missing the linux-image-2.6.35-1006-linaro-omap package which provides the /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-1006-linaro-omap and similar files. (Perhaps other packages are also missing from the list.)

(Loic suggested that this was the best place to report this bug.)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

So /usr/share/live-helper/helpers/binary_manifest chroots to ./chroot and calls 'dpkg -l' to generate this list; but the chroot is consistently missing all of the packages specified in LH_PACKAGES, and contains only the bootstrap package set. This is certainly a bug, but I can't tell at a glance what the right behavior is - is the package install *supposed* to be done in the chroot directory, or is the binary_manifest supposed to chroot to ./binary instead?

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

We don't include kernel packages in the rootfs anymore; does this affect other packages?

Perhaps we should discuss this in the live-helper bug tracker?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:32:15AM -0000, Loïc Minier wrote:
> We don't include kernel packages in the rootfs anymore; does this affect
> other packages?

> Perhaps we should discuss this in the live-helper bug tracker?

The live-helper version we're now using for linaro images generates a proper
manifest, but the implementation is broken and specific to the image types
we're building (i.e., not mergeable with the live-helper Canonical OEM
uses). We should track that for live-helper somehow; no opinion if
reassigning this bug is the right way to do that.