[yocto] Adding Python to an Image

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Gerard Bucas <gerard.b at tekmagic.net> wrote:
> Hi Ross (or anyone else!)
>
> How do YOU know this & how could ANYONE find out about the names of ALL the
> modules available for adding in yocto?
>
> In other words is there a searchable list somewhere of ALL "things" that can
> be added to a yocto build?

there is layerindex. http://layers.openembedded.org/
there you can find the recipes. If you want to know the output package
names. Then you have to build it and snoop into buildhistory repo to
see what all output packages are generated. I dont know if there is
any official online index for that

>
> I (& others!) would love to better understand how we can "learn" to find the
> names of all the modules that can easily be added to yocto!?
>
> THANKS!
>
> Gerard
>
>
> [yocto] Adding Python to an Image
> Jeremy Moles cubicool at gmail.com
> Thu Sep 25 14:35:54 PDT 2014
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> 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!
>
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