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mozcelikors
mozcelikors

Reputation: 2744

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

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.

Upvotes: 27

Views: 52098

Answers (5)

dafnahaktana
dafnahaktana

Reputation: 857

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

Upvotes: 8

balister
balister

Reputation: 421

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 within the buildhistory sub-directory.

Upvotes: 0

Angelo Dureghello
Angelo Dureghello

Reputation: 330

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

Upvotes: 0

Krupal Tharwala
Krupal Tharwala

Reputation: 1116

Yes,

Yocto maintains packages information in a form of manifest file located in

<"your_build_folder">/tmp/deploy/images/<"machine_image">/<"image_name">.manifest.

Upvotes: 26

David Bensoussan
David Bensoussan

Reputation: 3205

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

Upvotes: 33

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