Thanks Ross. The idea of more packages getting pulled in due to dependencies is going to help me.

I needed many packages under recipes-devtools. So I thought it might be better to pull them all instead of listing each one of them.

After seeing your response I realize that I will end up with 3 package managers. So I will just chose one.

If I have to chose just one, will any one of them (say apt) work? I somehow had come to believe that you can only use opkg in Yocto.

thanks and best regards

Madhu

From: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
To: Madhu Krishnamurthy <madhukanthk@yahoo.com>
Cc: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" <yocto@yoctoproject.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2019 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [yocto] How do I include all packages under a layer ?

On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 00:54, Madhu Krishnamurthy <madhukanthk@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Do I have to specify every package or is there a way I can add all packages inside a layer?
> For example, how do I add all packages from inside poky/meta to my image?
> Or at least how do I add all packages under poky/meta/recipes-devtools ?

You need to list them explicitly. Some layers have packagegroups that
pull in all the dependencies if that makes sense, but adding "all of
oe-core/recipes-devtools" would be odd: you'd have three package
managers for a start.

Ross