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Removing a sub package from a main package in Yocto

I want to remove the games pacakge from core-image-sato image recipe.

core-image-sato includes 'x11-sato' in the IMAGE_FEATURES.

IMAGE_FEATURES += "splash package-management x11-base x11-sato ssh-server-dropbear hwcodecs"

This will include packagegroup-core-x11-sato package.

This package has:

PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-base ${PN}-apps ${PN}-games"

I want to remove games from this. How can I achieve it from local.conf file?

Solution

  • You will need to create a .bbappend file of the packagegroup-core-x11-sato.bb file.

    In your own meta, create a file: your-meta/recipes-sato/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-x11-sato.bbappend

    This file will contain the modification you need on the packages:

    PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-base ${PN}-apps"

    In this way, the PACKAGES variable of the bbappend file will be used instead of the original PACKAGES variable of the recipe.