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, 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:
IMAGE_INSTALL += "your_package" Of course, this solution assumes you have a local overlay. Or maybe you could try placing the above IMAGE_INSTALL append to your local.conf. But that's probably messy and not advised. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>wrote: > > i'm currently poring over the OE docs (including the ones at the > yocto site), and i'm trying to figure out how to simply add a package > to an image through one's local.conf file. > > the current yocto ref manual has an entire section about customizing > images: > > > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#usingpoky-extend-customimage > > but it discusses creating custom recipe files and custom tasks, and > using IMAGE_INSTALL and IMAGE_FEATURES and EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES, and > finally gets into using local.conf, suggesting: > > DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "strace" > > is that, in fact, the accepted way if one simply wants to add a > package to an existing image build? because as soon as the manual > mentions it, in the very next paragraph, it discourages its use. > > so what's the story? it seems it should be a lot easier to figure > out how to do something that straightforward. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core >
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