On 7 March 2016 at 21:46, Bhanagay, Sagar <sagar.bhana...@hpe.com> wrote:
> I was going through the list of packages installed in the image (as per > the manifest file). > > I noticed that metadata information for these packages is present at - > > */build/tmp/sysroots/NAME/pkgdata/runtime/* > > > > Now I do notice that rarely for a few packages mentioned in the manifest > list, the corresponding metadata file is not present here. > > Also sometimes, though the file is present, it says “PKGSIZE_pkgname: 0” > > Example: PKGSIZE_packagegroup-base-ipv6: 0 > > > > What are these 0 size packages that manifest says are part of the image? > > They're called metapackages: they exist as packages but don't actually install any files. They're used to pull in other packages through dependencies. packagegroup-base-ipv6 is a bad example as it actually only pulls in one other package, but packagegroup-base-bluetooth is a good example as installing that causes about 15 kernel module packages to be pulled in (to enable bluetooth support). Ross Ross
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