How do I include a package in the image?

[ewanm89]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:45:50 -0700
"John Seghers" <jseghers at cequint.com> wrote:

> Yes, but you will find that task-bootstrap.bb is obsolete.
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> From: Jeremiah Flerchinger [mailto:jeremiah.flerchinger at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 12:44 PM
> To: John Seghers
> Cc: openmoko-devel at lists.openmoko.org
> Subject: Re: How do I include a package in the image?
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> John Seghers wrote: 
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> I'm attempting to include a package containing phoneme-feature into an
> openmoko build.
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> I've successfully (I think) built the package with the OpenEmbedded
> arm cross-compiling toolchain and have the .ipk package.  I cannot
> for the life of me find the way to get that package included into the
> image.
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> One assumption I should state first is: /home/moko/build/tmp/rootfs/..
> should contain the files from the package if it is installed in the
> image. Is this correct?
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> I've tried setting the documented IPKG_INSTALL in my bitbake recipe
> for phoneme. I've tried setting PACKAGE_INSTALL.
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> I've tried adding the package name to the PACKAGE_INSTALL in
> openembedded/packages/images/openmoko-image.bb
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> Can someone please shed some light on this?
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> Here's except I found at
> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/FirstProject which may relate.  I'm
> currently trying to get through some of their documentation myself.
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> Adding Packages to an Image  
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> This I found to be very obscure! There seems to be a peer
> relationship of the task-bootstrap.bb and bootstrap-image.bb.
> bootstrap-image.bb calls down to task-bootstrap.bb to get the
> recipies of the base system built. You would think that all you would
> have to do to add another package later is to add it to
> BOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_RDEPENDS? Not so! 
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> Adding the package name to BOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_RDEPENDS merely causes it
> to be built and packaged (.ipk), but it won't get added to the image!
> bootstrap-image.bb is a controlling recipe but it is
> task-bootstrap.bb that decides just what goes into that image.
> Strange, this caused me no end of removing the tmp directory and
> doing a fresh build just to add another package. :-( 
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> The solution is to rebuild the task-bootstrap package! When you add
> another package to BOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_RDEPENDS, merely run bitbake -c
> rebuild task-bootstrap and then do a bitbake bootstrap-image. It
> seems that task-bootstrap will build the collection (list) of what
> goes into the image, then bootstrap-imagetask-bootstrap made.
> populates it from the list
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I've added sudo and vim through task-openmoko.bb, it seems to be
working.

-- 
Ewan Marshall (ewanm89)

Geek by nature, Linux by choice.
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