Building minimal Angstrom image

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Hey all,

Alright, I am completely flummoxed. I've been trying for two days now to
compile a minimal Angstrom image with OpenEmbedded and I've still met no
success. It seems that no matter what task I use to build the image,
xorg and Gnome dependencies are always pulled in to the dependency
tree.

Unfortunately, it seems that the dependency tree generation facility in
bitbake is thoroughly broken, so identifying the culprit through that
channel is out of the question (it produces a new node for every
character of every dependency package name). All-in-all, it's been a
pretty frustrating experience.

Below is a list of the packages build during a dry-run of bitbake
task-base. Does anyone have a hypothesis explaining why so many packages
would be pulled into the base task or even just some idea of how one
could isolate the problem? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

- Ben

# bitbake -n task-base | grep 'started' | uniq
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2

Hey all,

Alright, I am completely flummoxed. I've been trying for two days now to
compile a minimal Angstrom image with OpenEmbedded and I've still met no
success. It seems that no matter what task I use to build the image,
xorg and Gnome dependencies are always pulled in to the dependency
tree.

Unfortunately, it seems that the dependency tree generation facility in
bitbake is thoroughly broken, so identifying the culprit through that
channel is out of the question (it produces a new node for every
character of every dependency package name). All-in-all, it's been a
pretty frustrating experience.

Below is a list of the packages build during a dry-run of bitbake
task-base. Does anyone have a hypothesis explaining why so many packages
would be pulled into the base task or even just some idea of how one
could isolate the problem? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

Try building minimal-image. Also, the task-base dependencies may lead
to more stuff getting built than is installed on the image.

Philip

3

To illustrate the point: OE builds a toolchain and that doesn't end up in the image, so "stuff built" != "stuff installed into image".

regards,

Koen

4

The ultimate minimal system could be build by:
bitbake virtual/kernel
after pruning the defconfig to the absolute minimum.

Of course that would not be too usable as there is no root filesystem,
so you could use a mini busybox and use sh as init program.
(and you'd need MLO and U-Boot to get things going (although I can
imagine that you can tell MLO to directly load your kernel.
If you do not want to have an external filesystem you can store /bin/
sh in an initramfs image and have it all in one file.

Would it work if build a kernel with a decend CMD_LINE compiled in and
name that kernel u-boot.bin on my flash filesystem?? (one might need
to use vmlinux, not uImage or so)

FM

5

Hello,

...
Unfortunately, it seems that the dependency tree generation facility in
bitbake is thoroughly broken, so identifying the culprit through that
channel is out of the question (it produces a new node for every
character of every dependency package name). All-in-all, it's been a
pretty frustrating experience.

Ben does point to a bug that annoyed me too; the dependency .dot file
generation does indeed generate a node for every character and has
become useless.

I tried a full day of fixing this, but ended up with something that
only half worked and then bailed out. My python skills are still
coming short.

Regards,

6

I have modified task-base some days ago when bluez was broken.
I only commented some lines.
It worked.
There should be some reason because task-base contains so many tasks.
Maybe in the future it will be possible to have a more minimal task-
base

7

No, but you are completely free to define your own tasks and use that. Noone is forcing you to use it. Task-base is just a convinience task, there's nothing magical about it.

regards,

Koen

8

Certainly. However some of the packages seem very odd for build
dependencies (e.g. the gnome hi-color-theme). Is it possible to
determine what will go into staging and what will go into rootfs (for
one, I'm assuming the *-native packages are staging)? Also, are there
any plans to fix dep graph generation? I understand that development
is probably focused on the 1.9 branch at this point, but this really
is an extremely useful feature for getting the big picture of what is
being built and honestly doesn't look too difficult to fix for someone
with experience with the code base.

I have done some of my own investigation into the issue and found
that the following loops produce the bad nodes:
                rdepends = self.status.rundeps[fn]
                for package in rdepends:
                    for rdepend in rdepends[package]:
                        print >> depends_file, '"%s" -> "%s"
[style=dashed]' % (package, rdepend)
                    packages.append(package)

                rrecs = self.status.runrecs[fn]
                for package in rrecs:
                    for rdepend in rrecs[package]:
                        print >> depends_file, '"%s" -> "%s"
[style=dashed]' % (package, rdepend)
                    if not package in packages:
                        packages.append(package)

It seems that the elements of self.status.rundeps and
self.status.rrecs are all strings. This is a little perplexing
considering that grepping for references to rundeps shows no
assignments that might result in a string value. Any ideas?

- Ben