[yocto] How is the list in package.manifest derived?

[Rudolf Streif]

Thanks for your response, Beth. I am using the default: RPM.

:rjs

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Flanagan, Elizabeth <
elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Rudolf Streif <rudolf.streif at linux.com>
> wrote:
> > I used poky-denzil-7.0 to build a core-image-minimal for the BeagleBoard.
> > Now I am looking for a list of everything that went into my image
> together
> > with the license information. The logical thing seems to be
> >
> ${TMPDIR}/deploy/licenses/core-image-minimal-beagleboard-<timestamp>/package.manifest:
> >
> > base-files
> > base-passwd
> > bash
> > busybox
> > busybox-syslog
> > busybox-udhcpc
> > initscripts
> > libc6
> > libgcc1
> > libtinfo5
> > libusb-1.0-0
> > libusb-compat
> > modutils-initscripts
> > ncurses-terminfo-base
> > netbase
> > pciutils-ids
> > sysvinit
> > sysvinit-inittab
> > sysvinit-pidof
> > task-core-boot
> > tinylogin
> > udev
> > udev-extraconf
> > udev-utils
> > update-alternatives-cworth
> > update-rc.d
> > usbutils-ids
> >
> > However, I don't think this is everything that went into the image. I
> would
> > expect the kernel to be in the list as well as module-init-tools and
> u-boot.
> > Apparently package.manifest and the corresponding license.manifest for an
> > image target do not contain all the licensing information that a device
> > builder would need to give to the end customer. How is that list created?
>
> This list is created via license_create_manifest within
> license.bbclass. I'm currently in the process of refactoring it quite
> a bit so I'll look out for this issue.
>
> It derives the list from list_installed_packages. Which means that
> there may be an issue with that function. The way I'm planning on
> doing it does not use list_installed_packages, however I'm going to
> open a bug on it to verify that it is in fact returning an incomplete
> list.
>
> What would be helpful here is knowing what package type you're using.
>
> -b
>
> >
> > Rudi
> >
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>
>
> --
> Elizabeth Flanagan
> Yocto Project
> Build and Release
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