Re: Retrieve list of all software/applications/packages installed on Yocto

[Leonardo Sandoval <leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez@linux.intel.com>]

On 07/01/2015 06:41 AM, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2015 7:34 AM, "Stanciu, Alin" <Alin.Stanciu@spirent.com> wrote:
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>> I would simply like to know how to obtain a list of all software
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>> Can this be done via a recipe? How can I find out whether my build has a
> recipe? What are other ways are there to get the listing?
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> When you build your image ... a manifest file will contain the list of
> packages (with versions) contained in that image.
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> If you have a running system, you can generate kind of the same list
> (depending on which package manager is being used - if any) by running a
> command like opkg list-installed.
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In case one needs a more detail on the image, you can enable 
*buildhistory* class. More info on

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#maintaining-build-output-quality

and specifically this

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#understanding-what-the-build-history-contains


> Regards,
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> Brian
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