[yocto] How to get a list of packages (with versions) used to create an image?

Barros Pena, Belen belen.barros.pena at intel.com
Fri Jan 24 03:10:01 PST 2014



On 23/01/2014 21:09, "Nicolas Dechesne" <nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org>
wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Brian Hutchinson <b.hutchman at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> Yes, but:
>>
>> 1.  I don't think package-index is image specific ... its just a list of
>> everything that has been bitbaked on the box (which doesn't equate to
>>one
>> particular image ... it's the net of all the packages from all the
>>images
>> that have been built thus far if I'm not mistaken ... it main use is so
>>the
>> feeds work and the the target know what packages are available).
>> 2.  I felt like this was probably something common and a way already
>>existed
>> so I thought I should ask in case I missed something before I wasted
>>time
>> re-inventing the wheel.
>>
>> Based on the responses so far ... it looks like this might not be as
>>common
>> a request as I thought!
>>
>
>no. i think it is very common, and it's the purpose of 'buildhistory',
>as mentioned already. for each image generated, you will get (among
>other things)
>
>installed-package-names.txt
>installed-package-sizes.txt
>installed-packages.txt
>
>list of all packages with version, sizes, ..

I know this will not help, since we are still building Toaster. But is it
something like this

http://www.yoctoproject.org/toaster/image-information-packages.html

you are thinking of? I would be interested in hearing if this would give
you what you need. 

Cheers

Belén


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