Bug 5025

Summary:	Query the package list built by an image
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Laszlo Papp <lpapp>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, ross.burton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Laszlo Papp 2013-08-20 15:29:51 UTC

It would be nice to use this feature for briefly checking out what packages will be available after an image build, e.g. core-image-minimal.

This can possibly be done by enabling the build history, asking for the dependency tree and so forth, but none feels really "native" about getting only the information you need.

Today, I just came across again to check if a package was available for an image (core-image-minimal in this particular scenario), but I have no simple way to do so as of today.

Comment 1 Ross Burton 2013-08-20 15:31:41 UTC

I presume the request is the package list *to be installed* in the image.  This is a subset of the packages built by an image target (native tools, etc).

"bitbake -e [imagename] | grep IMAGE_INSTALL=" is *almost* what you want, apart from that the bulk of that list will be package groups and need re-expanding.

Comment 2 Ross Burton 2016-04-13 15:35:18 UTC

We now deploy a full package manifest alongside the image.