I haven't tried this myself on images, but you can probably use .bbappend for this. I think bbappend files provide a proper way for extending recipes. So for instance,<div>if you want to add a package to the core-image-minimal image you would place the following in your core-image-minimal.bbappend file:</div>
<div><br></div><div>IMAGE_INSTALL += "your_package"</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, this solution assumes you have a local overlay.</div><div><br></div><div>Or maybe you could try placing the above IMAGE_INSTALL append to your local.conf. But that's probably messy and not advised.<br>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
i'm currently poring over the OE docs (including the ones at the<br>
yocto site), and i'm trying to figure out how to simply add a package<br>
to an image through one's local.conf file.<br>
<br>
the current yocto ref manual has an entire section about customizing<br>
images:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#usingpoky-extend-customimage" target="_blank">http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#usingpoky-extend-customimage</a><br>
<br>
but it discusses creating custom recipe files and custom tasks, and<br>
using IMAGE_INSTALL and IMAGE_FEATURES and EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES, and<br>
finally gets into using local.conf, suggesting:<br>
<br>
DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "strace"<br>
<br>
is that, in fact, the accepted way if one simply wants to add a<br>
package to an existing image build? because as soon as the manual<br>
mentions it, in the very next paragraph, it discourages its use.<br>
<br>
so what's the story? it seems it should be a lot easier to figure<br>
out how to do something that straightforward.<br>
<br>
rday<br>
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