[poky] How can a package I didn't ask for get included in my image?
Foinel
flocirel at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 12:15:21 PST 2012
How do you enable buildhistory?
Thanks
În data de 06.03.2012 21:27, "Paul Eggleton" <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
a scris:
>
> On Tuesday 06 March 2012 10:39:10 Gary Thomas wrote:
> > On 2012-03-06 10:05, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > > I'm trying to figure out why a particular package is ending up
> > > in my final image. If I build something like this:
> > > % bitbake my-image
> > > If I then look, I find packages that were installed that I'm
> > > never mentioning:
> > > % grep firmware tmp/work/my-board/my-image/temp/log.do_rootfs
> > > Installing linux-firmware-wl12xx
> > > (0.0+git1+09c949f6d3196a7199eb2c7015bfa5d34ed723b5-r0) to root... so I
> > > tried to figure out how this is getting in
> > > % bitbake my-image -g
> > > % grep firmware *.dot
> > > ... comes up empty
> > >
> > > To be fair, I had originally built this image with this in
<my-board>.conf
> > > MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules linux-firmware-wl12xx "
> > > but that has since been removed. Somehow, it's ghost lingers on...
> > >
> > > How can this be?
> > > How can I get rid of it, short of a complete rebuild?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any insight into this mystery.
> >
> > Found it myself - the variable MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS was referenced
> > by my core task, something like this:
> > RRECOMMENDS_task-my-distro-boot = "\
> > ${MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS} \
> > "
> > I hadn't rebuilt that task, so the reference remained. I'm still not
> > sure why it didn't end up in the .dot graphs though.
>
> The dot graphs produced by bitbake -g will include what's projected by the
> recipes, not already built packages; thus why after your change it no
longer
> appeared in the graphs. The answer is not to effectively make changes to
the
> tasks without bumping the task recipe's PR (or alternatively enable
> BasicHash).
>
> FYI you can enable buildhistory (without enabling BUILDHISTORY_COMMIT if
you
> don't need that) and this will produce some dependency graphs directly
from
> the packages used to construct the rootfs. These graphs are more focused
and
> thus can be a bit more useful when you're trying to figure out how a
package
> got into your image; however producing them is part of do_rootfs so you
have
> to go through the entire process of building the image in order to get
them.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> --
>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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