How do I include a package in the image?

[John Seghers]

Yes, but you will find that task-bootstrap.bb is obsolete.

 

- John

 

 

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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?

 

John Seghers wrote: 

I'm attempting to include a package containing phoneme-feature into an
openmoko build.

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.

 

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?

 

I've tried setting the documented IPKG_INSTALL in my bitbake recipe for
phoneme. I've tried setting PACKAGE_INSTALL.

I've tried adding the package name to the PACKAGE_INSTALL in
openembedded/packages/images/openmoko-image.bb

 

Can someone please shed some light on this?

 

- John

 

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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.


Adding Packages to an Image  


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! 

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. :-( 

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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