Remove packagegroup from image

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I have problems fetching MariaDB. Because I don't need this package I'm trying to remove it. First, I tried to understand what include it:

$ grep -nrw ../layers/ -e mariadb
Binary file ../layers/meta-openembedded/.git/index matches
../layers/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb:99:    leveldb libdbi mariadb mariadb-native \

Looking into packagegroup-meta-oe.bb I found:

RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-oe-dbs ="\
    leveldb libdbi mariadb mariadb-native \
    mysql-python postgresql psqlodbc rocksdb soci \
    sqlite \
    ${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "bluez4", "mongodb", "", d)} \
    "

hence I tried to remove packagegroup-meta-oe-dbs in my <image>.bb:

IMAGE_INSTALL_remove = "packagegroup-meta-oe-dbs"

But it still insists to build it. Where is my fault?

If you just hack on `packagegroup-meta-oe.bb` and simply remove `mariadb` is everything good? — Richard Nixon, Nov 03 '19 at 14:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '19 at 05:46

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Since packagegroup-meta-oe-dbs is a runtime dependency of packagegroup-meta-oe-dbs, you cannot remove it without removing packagegroup-meta-oe-dbs.

What you need to do is create bbappend for packagegroup-meta-oe-dbs, and add the following line to it:

RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-oe-dbs_remove = "mariadb"

answered Nov 04 '19 at 05:46

Oleksandr Kravchuk

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You could also add the line to local.conf instead of creating a new bbappend file. RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-oe-dbs_remove = "mariadb" – evk1206 Dec 21 '21 at 08:41

Remove packagegroup from image

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