I've been trying to build some images to play around with on my linux box, with
mixed success. Base-image builds, but won't won't boot (hangs after Taking
Root...") Building other packages like wireless-image also works, but the
packages fail to install on a known working base-image. I dropped them into a
folder in /home/root on the SD card, but when I run 'ipkg install
wireless-tools* (or any variation, even full path and name) it fails with errors
for each file. For wireless-tools_29-r4.2_armv5te.ipk, for instance:

"
Clearing state_want and state_flag for pkg=wireless-tools (arch_priority=0
flag=16 want=2)
Nothing to be done
An error occured, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
Cannot find package wireless-tools.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update' "


From the best I can gather from web research, this issue can be caused by
building for the wrong architecture, but TARGET_ARCH is set to arm in my
zipit2.conf and I don't really know where else to look.

It's quite possible I've missed something simple, as I'm very inexperienced with
Openembedded. I used Sweetlilmre's repository to set up the OE environment on
an Ubuntu 8.10 install. If anyone has suggestions on what I might be doing
wrong, they would be greatly appreciated.