[oe] packages versioning

[Gary Thomas]

On 2011-12-09 11:57, Mr Dash Four wrote:
>
>> The creation of the filesystem image is driven by a number of components. Basically it works like this:
> Thanks a lot for that - a good insight into the workings of oe and bitbake. I was hoping there would be an easier way to configure/change this to what I want, but I see that it is
> much more complex than I thought initially.
>
>> I have a spreadsheet (OpenOffice 17k, or Excel 81k) that lists all of the current breakdowns. If you are interested send me an email off list.
> I am interested (excel would be nice, thanks), but don't know your email address (all I get when responding to 'all' is the mailing list email address) - if you know mine, you
> could send me that and I'll have a look.
>
> I take it there isn't an easy way to see the hierarchy of all packages/dependencies involved in a particular image, is it (your spreadsheet may be good, but I suppose it is static
> and reflects just a current snapshot of a given packages/dependencies and that might change)?
>
> If all else fails, I might use ipkg on the target system to uninstall the packages I don't need and install new ones - not ideal by any means, but this is what I'll do only as a
> last resort, if all else fails. Thanks again for the thorough response!

You can also use 'bitbake -u hob' which will let you interactively
build and modify images.

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