[yocto] My stuff is missing from rootfs

[Paul D. DeRocco]

> From: Mark Hatle
> 
> A simple way to diagnose if your package is even in the 
> install list is to do 
> bitbake -e <image>, then scan the output for 
> "PACKAGE_INSTALL".  If your package 
> is not listed there, then something has either cleared your 
> configuration or you 
> have a typo.
> 
> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " my_package" should work, and 
> generally won't be cleared 
> by a recipe.

It's there, and it's all working now. I've had things break in odd ways
before, and recover when I rebuilt. This time it took a couple of tries.

What makes it frustrating is that I'm building on a wimpy Atom system.
I've been on the verge of buying a killer system just to do builds, but I
keep thinking, maybe I'll only need to do this another dozen or so times
and then I'll be done, in which case it wouldn't be a good investment.

> (Note you should modify IMAGE_INSTALL, which is transformed 
> by the system into 
> PACKAGE_INSTALL... modifying PACKAGE_INSTALL can lead to problems.)

I don't think that all the various ways to append stuff will ever make
sense to me. Currently, I'm using IMAGE_INSTALL += "..." in my top level
recipe, and it works. I don't know what IMAGE_INSTALL_append does
differently.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com