[poky] building packages in a general recipe without adding to rootfs

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 09:03 -0700, Peter Tornel wrote:
> I want a single recipe that contains some core packages to install in
> rootfs using IMAGE_INSTALL, and I also want to specify a number of
> packages to be built in deploy/rpm so I can install them later to my
> hard drive without having them included in my rootfs. 
>
> What's the best way to specify the additional packages in my recipe
> without having them included in my rootfs?
>
> I believe EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS gets the job done, but it's intended to
> be used to specify a dependency, which isn't the case here.   Is there
> something else I should be using?

I'd create a recipe which lists them as DEPENDS and then simply include
the name of that recipe on the commandline along with your image.

Cheers,

Richard