6478 2014-06-25 10:27:22 +0000 Tweaks to remove cruft from non-rootfs (container) images 2025-02-06 16:15:45 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core 1.7 All Multiple NEW Medium+ enhancement 5.99 1 bluelightning unassigned meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher Qi.Chen randy.macleod richard.purdie --- --- Don't know oldest_to_newest 44176 0 bluelightning 2014-06-25 10:27:22 +0000 If you're attempting to build an image which isn't meant to be a rootfs (such as an image for a secondary partition), at the moment you get a bunch of superfluous files in the image. Here's what I get with an image where (for testing purposes) IMAGE_INSTALL is set to "": ├── etc │ ├── default │ │ └── postinst │ ├── ld.so.cache │ ├── rcS.d │ └── version ├── lib │ └── modules │ └── 3.14.4-yocto-standard │ ├── modules.alias │ ├── modules.alias.bin │ ├── modules.builtin.bin │ ├── modules.dep │ ├── modules.dep.bin │ ├── modules.devname │ ├── modules.softdep │ ├── modules.symbols │ └── modules.symbols.bin └── var └── lib └── opkg ld.so.cache can be taken care of by setting LDCONFIGDEPEND = "", however the rest of the files remain. 61425 1 bluelightning 2016-04-19 22:29:33 +0000 So with krogoth the picture is as follows - this is building test-empty-image in meta-selftest (with ipk as in the original example): ├── etc │   ├── default │   │   └── postinst │   ├── ld.so.cache │   ├── timestamp │   └── version ├── run └── var ├── cache │   ├── ldconfig │   │   └── aux-cache │   └── opkg └── lib └── opkg Same image with rpm: ├── etc │   ├── default │   │   └── postinst │   ├── ld.so.cache │   ├── rpm │   │   ├── platform │   │   └── sysinfo │   │   └── Dirnames │   ├── timestamp │   └── version └── var └── lib