How do I include all packages under a layer ?

How do I include all packages under a layer ?

[Madhu Krishnamurthy]

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HelloI want to add packages to my image using the local.conf file. For exampleIMAGE_INSTALLED_append += " dmidecode i2c-tools"
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 ?
thanksMadhu 

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Re: How do I include all packages under a layer ?

[Burton, Ross]

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

Re: How do I include all packages under a layer ?

[Madhu Krishnamurthy]

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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 regardsMadhu



      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


   

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Re: How do I include all packages under a layer ?

[Burton, Ross]

On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 21:32, Madhu Krishnamurthy <madhukanthk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

The default is opkg but RPM and dpkg are supported.  I'd pick either
opkg or rpm though.

Ross