On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Paul Eggleton <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
