[yocto] Packages in packagegroup are not installed in image

[Ng, Mei Yeen]

Randy, 

It works perfectly now. :)  
Thanks so much for your advice. 

Warm regards,
Mei Yeen

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Witt [mailto:randy.e.witt at linux.intel.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 4:05 AM
To: Ng, Mei Yeen; yocto at yoctoproject.org
Cc: Hart, Darren; Witt, Randy E
Subject: Re: [yocto] Packages in packagegroup are not installed in image

On 08/24/2015 07:20 PM, Ng, Mei Yeen wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> The packagegroups is added into the image as below:
>
> 1) Create a bbappend of the image core-image-full-cmdline.bbappend in 
> our new layer
> 2) In the core-image-full-cmdline.bbappend, enable the following lines:
>
> 	DESCRIPTION = "Custom list of packages for build essentials for commandline image"
>
> 	IMAGE_INSTALL += "packagegroup-core-buildessential-extended"
> 	IMAGE_INSTALL += "packagegroup-core-devtools"

Could you try using _append like below, and see if that gives you the consistency you want?

IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " packagegroup-core-buildessential-extended"
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " packagegroup-core-devtools"

> 3) Update the local.conf to include EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks tools-testapps tools-debug"
>
> Thanks,
> MY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Witt [mailto:randy.e.witt at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 2:00 AM
> To: Ng, Mei Yeen; yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Cc: Hart, Darren; Witt, Randy E
> Subject: Re: [yocto] Packages in packagegroup are not installed in 
> image
>
> Hi Mei,
>
> On 07/15/2015 10:40 AM, Ng, Mei Yeen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need help for issue where packages in packagegroup that compiles perfectly fine with core-images, but when verified in the image, they are not installed for some reason.
>> My understanding was that packages listed under RDEPENDS in the packagegroup would get compiled and installed.
>>
>> Some packages would appear in 1 image and then disappear in the next compiled image.
>> I'm seeing this when compiling with core-image-full-cmdline and core-image-sato.
>>
>> I have attached the following package group created:
>>
>> -        graphics package group- ldd would not be installed in the image
>>
>> -        build essentials extended package group - gdb were not install, gcc and mkdosfs will intermittently not install into the image
>
> Could you perhaps provide the recipe that creates the package group and show how you are adding the package group to the image?
>
>> Any help to shed some light on this is very much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> MY
>>
>>
>>
>