[yocto] List of Binary Files from a recipe

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Fri Jun 6 14:32:33 PDT 2014


On 2014-06-06 15:25, Bharath Chandra wrote:
> Hi Ross,
>
> Using rpm, I was able to trace back recipe files for all the files except for files in a folder called as media. When I try to trace for any file inside media, it does not show me
> any package name. Could anyone please tell me what is this media folder??

/media is where alternative devices, e.g. a USB stick, are mounted.
The contents of /media are not part of the main root file system, thus
you won't find them in any package manager database.

> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Bharath Chandra <ellurubharath29 at gmail.com <mailto:ellurubharath29 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Ross,
>
>     Thank you for the response.
>     rpm -qf <filename> would give us the package name.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Bharath
>
>
>     On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com <mailto:ross.burton at intel.com>> wrote:
>
>         On 5 June 2014 21:50, Bharath Chandra <ellurubharath29 at gmail.com <mailto:ellurubharath29 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         > I am working on a reverse enginnering project and I want to know by looking
>         > at an executable , the recipe file from which it is generated. So, first I
>         > need to understand by using what commands in a recipe file, we can generate
>         > an executable.
>
>         If you actually need to know what recipe produced a binary without
>         instrumenting the binaries, then use the package manager: they all
>         have a command to tell you what binary package installed a file, and
>         from the binary package  you can determine the source package, and
>         that's got the same name as the recipe.
>
>         Ross
>
>
>
>
>     --
>     Thanks & Regards,
>     Bharath Chandra Elluru.
>     Contact Number:785-979-4875 <tel:785-979-4875>.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> Bharath Chandra Elluru.
> Contact Number:785-979-4875.
>
>

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