installing and rolling back packages in yocto at runtime

installing and rolling back packages in yocto at runtime

[learning yocto]

Hi List,

This must be a trivial thing, since am a newbie and couldnt find
googling the same in the archive, please pardon my ignorance.

I have created a thin rootfs using yocto which works well on my board.
Suppose now I have to add a package, I can add using
IMAGE_INSTALL_append but that would create a new image.
I dont want to upload a complete image, it seems like an overkill.

Is it possible to ftp the image to the board and then do something
like dpkg -i, this would help in deinstall as well?

thanks

Re: [yocto] installing and rolling back packages in yocto at runtime

[Ross Burton]

On 23/12/2019 14:38, learning yocto wrote:
> Is it possible to ftp the image to the board and then do something
> like dpkg -i, this would help in deinstall as well?

Yes.  By default rpm/smart is used, but you can use apt/dpkg or opkg if 
you prefer.

You can either copy packages onto the target and use the tool to install 
directly (dpkg -i for example), or use a HTTP daemon to share your 
tmp/deploy/deb folder and set PACKAGE_FEED_URIS to configure the feed in 
your images.

Ross