[OE-core] opkg_install_pkg: Package <name> md5sum mismatch. Either the opkg or the package index are corrupt.

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 09:12:43PM +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> Am 02.05.2015 um 23:55 schrieb Andrea Adami:
> > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> >> Has anyone ever seen this message during <image>.do_rootfs task?
> >>
> >> Collected errors:
> >>  * opkg_install_pkg: Package <package> md5sum mismatch. Either the opkg or the package index are corrupt. Try 'opkg update'.
> >>  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package <package>.
> >>
> >> We started seeing it on random packages inside the <image> few weeks ago on
> >> different machines. At the time we had switched to bitbake 1.26. But even
> >> trying different bitbake versions still occasionally caused the same error, so
> >> the culprit is still unknwon. Using oe-core/daisy for now.
> >>
> >> Any comments or suggestions to where start looking would be appreciated!
> > 
> > yes, I have seen this during multimachine builds.
> > My TMPDIR is on tmpfs in ram so everytime I reboot it is re-populated
> > from sstate.
> > ...
> 
> We have the same problem here. Also with packages from the "all" feed in a 
> multimachine build environment. But it does not seem related to 
> packagegroups.
> 
> I've a hypothesis but was not able to validate or falsify it till now: Given 
> a recipe which does only use file:// type SRC_URI. If i change something in 
> these sources and do not update PR the prserv/hashing mechanism detects the 
> changes a builds a new package. But this package has the same version info 
> as the one before. So for opkg there's no need to update it's "package 
> database".

After fixing few of our own goofs in packagegroups, I still saw this issue 
with some real packages like weston-init. It went away after it got rebuilt 
due to the dependencies, but I'll keep an eye on it and report if it comes 
back...

-- 
Denys