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Subject: Re: How can a package I didn't ask for get included in my image?
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On 2012-03-06 10:05, Gary Thomas wrote:
> Note: I'm not sure the best list to use for this, but I'll start
> here. I build using poky plus my own distro.conf and my own image
> recipes, etc. My example below uses stylized package and target
> names.
>
> I'm trying to figure out why a particular package is ending up
> in my final image. If I build something like this:
> % bitbake my-image
> If I then look, I find packages that were installed that I'm
> never mentioning:
> % grep firmware tmp/work/my-board/my-image/temp/log.do_rootfs
> Installing linux-firmware-wl12xx (0.0+git1+09c949f6d3196a7199eb2c7015bfa5d34ed723b5-r0) to root...
> so I tried to figure out how this is getting in
> % bitbake my-image -g
> % grep firmware *.dot
> ... comes up empty
>
> To be fair, I had originally built this image with this in <my-board>.conf
> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules linux-firmware-wl12xx "
> but that has since been removed. Somehow, it's ghost lingers on...
>
> How can this be?
> How can I get rid of it, short of a complete rebuild?
>
> Thanks for any insight into this mystery.

Found it myself - the variable MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS was referenced
by my core task, something like this:
   RRECOMMENDS_task-my-distro-boot = "\
     ${MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS} \
   "
I hadn't rebuilt that task, so the reference remained.  I'm still not
sure why it didn't end up in the .dot graphs though.

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