On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Christopher Larson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day <
> rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > >         i've just been handed a list of about 200 perl packages by
> their
> > >       centos rpm names, and i want to map most, if not all, of them to
> their
> > >       equivalent OE package names.
> > >
> > >        my first instinct (based on not having used a lot of perl OE
> > >       packages) is to add both "perl" and "perl-modules" to
> IMAGE_INSTALL,
> > >       just to fetch and build every possible module available through
> the OE
> > >       perl recipe -- that will at least give me an idea of what's
> available.
> > >
> > >         next, i can see the pattern in some OE package names -- i've
> > >       verified that the Time::HiRes package is available in OE as
> > >       perl-module-time-hires, which i assume is part of the dynamic
> naming
> > >       being done in perl_5.22.1.bb.
> > >
> > >        am i approaching this the right way?
> > >
> > >
> > > Could also bitbake perl, then use oe-pkgdata-util to locate the
> > > actual perl modules in the packages, i.e. */Time/HiRes.pm.
> >
> >   i once wrote a wiki page on "bb", distinguishing between queries
> > you could make before you did a build, versus queries that needed a
> > build. it seems like oe-pkgdata-util needs a completed build for
> > pretty much everything, do i have that right?
>
>   never mind, i just read this snippet from the YP ref manual:
>
> "You can use the oe-pkgdata-util command-line utility to query
> PKGDATA_DIR and display various package-related information. When you
> use the utility, you must use it to view information on packages that
> have already been built."
>
> so i'm assuming that means for *all* oe-pkgdata subcommands, no
> exceptions.


Right, oe-pkgdata-util is about inspecting build output via pkgdata,
whereas most of bb is inspection tools about the metadata — before the
build. The only exception is bb-contents, which is a convenience, just
wraps oe-pkgdata-util under the hood and tells the user the oe-pkgdata-util
command in case they want to run it directly.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics