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

[Andrea Adami]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> 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

Robert, core-image-base is much better for testing (is a bit like
Angstrom console-image)

Paul,
maybe core-image-base (and core-image-core) should be listed in the
output of oe-init-build-env & co.?

Regards

Andrea

> 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.
>
> 2) Otherwise, if task-base has already been built and will be included (which
> it will be for any image that inherits from core-image and does not override
> IMAGE_INSTALL, e.g. core-image-sato) but you aren't using OEBasicHash
> (defaults to enabled for latest Poky, but not for OE-Core's default policy)
> then changing DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS after the fact won't do anything unless
> you force task-base to rebuild.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> --
>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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