[OE-core] adding a single package to an image -- what's the proper way?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 March 2012 07:06:21 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 28 March 2012 12:51:46 Marko Katić wrote:
> > > > I always use "bitbake -c clean -c cleansstate package" for that purpose.
> > >
> > > Firstly, cleansstate does a clean already, so no need to specify that as
> > > well.
> > >
> > > Secondly, images are always rebuilt so provided you comment out the
> > > IMAGE_INSTALL_append or whatever you have done to change the image
> > > contents, you can just build the image again and it will be rebuilt
> > > as it was before.
> >
> >   i was testing the various solutions presented, and the first couple
> > worked just by changing the local.conf file (both adding and
> > removing), but the third using DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS didn't appear to
> > make a difference after i added the appropriate line to local.conf.
> >
> >   if i add the line:
> >
> > DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "sysfsutils"
> >
> > do you know if this requires an explicit reconfiguration of some kind
> > to be picked up?  it's exactly these niggling details i'm trying to
> > clarify.
>
> Yes, it will. You would need to clean and rebuild task-base because unlike the
> other methods the dependency gets built into a task package.
>
> This is one of the reasons you should not use DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS from
> local.conf - this is intended to be set from the distro configuration only.
> Please don't recommend this to be modified from local.conf - stick to
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL (or IMAGE_INSTALL_append, if you must).

  even though i realize this technique is not encouraged for
local.conf, as i mentioned, i just tested using it from scratch in a
brand new build and it still didn't add that package to my image.  if
it should have, then something isn't working.

rday

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