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From: "Paul Eggleton" <bluelightning@bluelightning.org>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: Anders Wallin <anders.wallin@windriver.com>,
	Saul Wold <saul.wold@windriver.com>, Anders Wallin <wallinux@gmail.com>,
	Paul Eggleton <bluelightning@bluelightning.org>
Subject: Re: [OE-core][PATCH v2] scripts/contrib/image-manifest: add new script
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:15:21 +1200
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On Friday, 16 April 2021 08:31:58 NZST Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> On Friday, 9 April 2021 06:03:36 NZST Anders Wallin wrote:
> > image-manifest: script to generate product/image specific BOM
> > 
> > The image-manifest script generates image specific reports based on
> > an image manifest file. Currently there is data generated by buildhistory,
> > pkgdata, and license manifest but this data is poorly formated and spread
> > across multiple text files. This script can generate a single JSON output
> > file that is machine readable by other tools.
> > 
> > The manifest-info collects package information and stores the information
> > in a tarball. manifest-info can be configured using a json configuration
> > file. The default configuration including all possible options can be
> > dumped using the dump-config subcommand.
> > 
> > image-manifest takes an image manifest file as input to get the runtime
> > dependencies. As an option image-manifest can also use the build
> > dependency
> > file, pn-buildlist, to get the build dependencies excluding native
> > packages.
> > 
> > This script extends the oe-image-manifest script [0] done by Paul Eggleton
> > 
> > [0]
> > https://github.com/intel/clear-linux-dissector-web/blob/master/layerindex/
> > st atic/files/oe-image-manifest
> 
> So I've thought some more about this. At minimum I think this script should
> be under contrib/

Hmm, as Richard points out, it *is* already under contrib - I think I got that 
mixed up with another script I'd looked at separately. Still, my other 
comments stand.

Paul