[yocto] Adding Python to an Image

[Jeremy Moles]

On 09/25/2014 05:26 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 25 September 2014 21:53, Jeremy Moles <cubicool at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone! With today's git (56f6634) I can build python using bitbake
>> without any issues. However, if I add it to an image I'm trying to arranage
>> (in the form of adding it to IMAGE_INSTALL) it totally explodes. The error
>> is massive, so I have attached it to this e-mail.
> The message says that it can't find a package called "python" (and
> then spams you with the complete list of packages it did find).
> There's a good reason for this: the python recipe doesn't actually
> produce a package called python.
>
> The binary and key libraries are in python-core, and the rest of the
> modules are split into separate packages.  If you want to install them
> all then install python-modules.
>
> Ross
>

Ah, thanks. In this case, python is the RECIPE, which can (and in this 
case, does) produce man PACKAGES.

Thanks for the reminder! Chugging right along!