Is there a way to check the exact list of packages that will be installed in the image in Yocto?

问题

In Yocto-based Embedded Linux distributions, I am really interested in finding the complete list of packages/recipes/kernel modules from each dependent layers that will be built and installed to an image file before executing the image building recipe such as:

bitbake my-image-minimal

Is there a way to achieve this? Any guidance in this regard is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

回答1:

Yes, like this On old Bitbake versions:

bitbake -g <image> && cat pn-depends.dot | grep -v -e '-native' \
    | grep -v digraph | grep -v -e '-image' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq

Taken from the NXP Community website

On newer:

bitbake -g <image> && cat pn-buildlist | grep -ve "native" | sort | uniq

回答2:

yes,

Yocto maintains packages information in a form of manifest file located in /tmp/deploy/images/<"machine_image">/<"image_name">.manifest.

回答3:

You can find the list in the generated .manifest file. See IMAGE_MANIFEST

回答4:

We've talked about this in the past and for various reasons, it is hard to know what packages would end up in the image, without going through the complete build process.

One of the best tools for seeing what is an an image is the buildhistory class. Add it to your user classes in local.conf. The output ends up in the build directory in the buildhistory directory.

回答5:

add INHERIT += "buildhistory" in your conf/local.conf and rebuild

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