Smart

http://labix.org/smart/

Mark's smart contrib branch:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=mhatle/smart

(This is on top of OE-Core - cherry pick the patches on top of something else if you prefer - you'll probably need to revert the patch mentioned in bug 3371 as well).

To test this out querying a root filesystem on the host:

1. Ensure you are using "package_rpm" in PACKAGE_CLASSES
2. Comment out the line in core-image-minimal that removes the packaging data files
3. bitbake core-image-minimal
4. bitbake python-smartpm-native
5. bitbake -c devshell core-image-minimal
6. Within the devshell:

cd ../rootfs
export PYTHONPATH="/path/to/native/sysroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
export RPM_ETCRPM=$PWD/etc/rpm
smart --data-dir=$PWD/var/lib/smart channel --add rpmsys type=rpm-sys name="rpmsys"
smart --data-dir=$PWD/var/lib/smart config --set rpm-root=$PWD
smart --data-dir=$PWD/var/lib/smart config --set rpm-dbpath=/var/lib/rpm

You should now be able to query the packages installed into the rootfs e.g.

smart --data-dir=$PWD/var/lib/smart query

If you add an rpm-dir channel and run smart under pseudo you can install and uninstall packages:

smart --data-dir=$PWD/var/lib/smart channel --add test type=rpm-dir path=/path/to/tmp/deploy/rpm/i586
smart --data-dir=$PWD/var/lib/smart query # verify that the new channel is recognized
unset PSEUDO_DISABLED
unset PSEUDO_UNLOAD
pseudo smart --data-dir=$PWD/var/lib/smart install zip # install 'zip' in the rootfs