From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from hermes.mlbassoc.com ([64.234.241.98] helo=mail.chez-thomas.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RZ5sV-00068T-N1 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:13:03 +0100 Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id C0753F8124F; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:06:11 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FD2F81245; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:06:10 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4EE25C22.5030605@mlbassoc.com> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:06:10 -0700 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111115 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4EE17931.7000609@googlemail.com> <4EE20646.2030300@googlemail.com> <4EE2305B.5030407@googlemail.com> <4EE23411.2060907@windriver.com> <4EE25A0B.7070309@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EE25A0B.7070309@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: packages versioning X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:13:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2011-12-09 11:57, Mr Dash Four wrote: > >> The creation of the filesystem image is driven by a number of components. Basically it works like this: > Thanks a lot for that - a good insight into the workings of oe and bitbake. I was hoping there would be an easier way to configure/change this to what I want, but I see that it is > much more complex than I thought initially. > >> I have a spreadsheet (OpenOffice 17k, or Excel 81k) that lists all of the current breakdowns. If you are interested send me an email off list. > I am interested (excel would be nice, thanks), but don't know your email address (all I get when responding to 'all' is the mailing list email address) - if you know mine, you > could send me that and I'll have a look. > > I take it there isn't an easy way to see the hierarchy of all packages/dependencies involved in a particular image, is it (your spreadsheet may be good, but I suppose it is static > and reflects just a current snapshot of a given packages/dependencies and that might change)? > > If all else fails, I might use ipkg on the target system to uninstall the packages I don't need and install new ones - not ideal by any means, but this is what I'll do only as a > last resort, if all else fails. Thanks again for the thorough response! You can also use 'bitbake -u hob' which will let you interactively build and modify images. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------