[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 07:14:41 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   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.
>
> So, there are two reasons why it might not work:
>
> 1) If you're using core-image-minimal, it will never be included
> using DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS (nor MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS, for that
> matter). This is because core-image-minimal does not include
> task-base - only the minimum required to get a working system.

  ah, quite so, i didn't notice that, i'll try again with another
image just for verification.

rday

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