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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 24 January 2014 09:07:46 Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Paul Eggleton <
> 
> paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > If you want license and version information, probably the best place to
> > get that is the automatically produced license manifest for the image:
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#mainta
> > ining-open-source-license-compliance-during-your-products-lifecycle
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> 
> For license compliance, I've just been taring up the deploy/licenses dir.
> 
> I know it includes way more than just the licenses for the packages in the
> images but I've not investigated yet if there's a fancy way of managing
> those better.
> 
> I've seen that section of the document you point out before ... I just need
> to spend more time in it.  Our release procedure in this area needs to be
> automated/streamlined and improved too!  I'll have to search the archives
> and see if I can find prior discussions on that topic.

The point is, there is a file 
tmp/deploy/licenses/<image_name>-<datestamp>/license.manifest which contains
a list of all installed packages, their version, their license and the recipe 
they were produced by. Isn't that what you were after?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre