Smart

http://labix.org/smart/

Mark's smart contrib branch:

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

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 fakechroot (or pseudo presumably, but fakechroot is simpler for testing here) you can install and uninstall packages (note that you might have to install fakechroot on your host first):

 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
 fakechroot smart --data-dir=$PWD/var/lib/smart install zip # install 'zip' in the rootfs