The super yoctoish way would be to alter the packaging of the recipe to
your needs.
Let's assume recipe-a consists of the files
foo
bar
and it would package both files into recipe-a pkg.
In the actual image you only install packages into a file system, so if
you don't want bar to be installed into your final image, it'd be best
to package bar into a separate package.
PACKAGES_BEFORE_PN = "${PN}-bar"
FILES:${PN}-bar = "bar"
in this case the recipe would produce
recipe-a (containing just foo)
recipe-a-bar (containing just bar)
You could install now (via IMAGE_INSTALL in your image recipe) just add
recipe-a and only foo would be put into the final image.
While a potential other image (IMAGE_INSTALL += "recipe-a-bar recipe-a")
would contain both.
But if you'd go down that road you have to make sure that runtime
dependencies between the packages are met (using REDEPENDS:*
statements), as otherwise it could turn into very hard to debug issues.
So I would propose to **not** do that via bbappends, but forks of the
recipes you want to repackage.
Another option (as likely mentioned already) is to use
rem_stuff() {
rm ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/<file you want to delete>
}
ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "rem_stuff;"
in your image recipe
On 25.10.21 14:55, Monsees, Steven C (US) via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
Hello:
If I am building an image “image-ABC”, and it is composed of a number
recipes, and for some of these recipes I may NOT want to install their
final components within my image…
Which is the best place to modify the build with bbappend ?
Would I modify a recipe’s do_install (do_install_append-recipe_xyz) ?,
or would I modify the image recipe (do_install_append-image_ABC) I am
leaning this way to avoid cases where the component recipes might have
bbappends in place already ?
Looking for the proper Yocto way…
Thanks,
Steve
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