How to determine dependencies of recipes in yocto?

Question

I want to add gedit to the the image. But i am not able to find the dependencies of gedit package. How to find the dependencies (DEPENDS) in yocto.

Answer 1

The list of packages installed in your image is stored in the manifest file (besides of build history which is already mentioned).

Content of the manifest file looks like:

alsa-conf cortexa7hf-neon-vfpv4 1.1.2-r0.1
alsa-conf-base cortexa7hf-neon-vfpv4 1.1.2-r0.1
alsa-lib cortexa7hf-neon-vfpv4 1.1.2-r0.1
alsa-states cortexa7hf-neon-vfpv4 0.2.0-r5.1
alsa-utils-alsactl cortexa7hf-neon-vfpv4 1.1.2-r0.5
alsa-utils-alsamixer cortexa7hf-neon-vfpv4 1.1.2-r0.5
...

The list consists of the package name, architecture and a version.

That manifest is located in the deploy directory (i.e. deploy/images/${MACHINE}/). Here as an example of the directory listing (there are target images and the manifest file)

example-image-genericx86.ext3
example-image-genericx86.manifest
example-image-genericx86.tar.bz2