[yocto] IMAGE_INSTALL_append workflow

[Eric Bénard]

Hi Trevor,

Le Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:20:30 -0500,
Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I haven't yet figured out if the "PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel =
> > "linux-yocto-rt"" line might be the culprit.
> 
> No, it is not related, this problem doesn't need any fancy
> configuration features. This problem is reproducible
> with just the plain qemux86 machine and the core-image-minimal image.
> Also, before my latest tests I pulled
> the latest git repo.
> 
> To reproduce this problem:
> 
> - use the latest git repositories
> - run "source poky/oe-init-build-env qemux86"
> - make no modifications to conf/bblayers.conf
> - make no changes to conf/local.conf
> - run "bitbake core-image-minimal"
> 
> After that completes successfully add the following line to your
> conf/local.conf:
> 
> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " trace-cmd"
> 
> - re-run the build "bitbake core-image-minimal"
> 
> This should complete successfully. When it does, modify the last line
> of conf/local.conf to be:
> 
> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " trace-cmd bash"
> 
> - try re-running the build now "bitbake core-image-minimal". It fails
> for me as I have detailed in my previous emails.
> 
> If I manually do:
> 
> $ bitbake bash
> $ bitbake core-image-minimal
> 
> everything succeeds and my image contains 'bash'. But something tells
> me there's a bug in there somewhere.

I confirm the problem when following this procedure step by step.

with bitbake -e we see that bash is in RDEPENDS and in IMAGE_INSTALL
with bitbake -g we see that bash is not present in any of the
*depends.dot files

Eric