Remove netdata package from Yocto

Question

I'm trying to get rid of netdata from my Yocto environment. So I added it to the IMAGE_INSTALL_remove variable inside my <image>.bb file:

IMAGE_INSTALL_remove = "netdata"

I also added it to conf/bblayers.conf file:

DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = "netdata"

Then I removed the output directory (rm -rf tmp-glibc) and the buildhistory/.../netdata directory and I bitbaked my image again.

Unfortunately the package is still compiled and goes into the output folder.

Answer 1

Yocto is hard to learn, and I'm still learning it, so I'm not a Yocto expert, and might even be wrong. But I hope I can help you.

1. I think that you don't have to modify your bblayers.conf by adding

   DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = "netdata"
   

2. Are you sure that the netdata package is not needed by any other packages? For example, if inside recipe-a.bb you have:

   RDEPENDS += "recipe-b"
   

   Then recipe-b is automatically included in the result image.

My advice is: check the netdata dependencies with

bitbake -g <packagename-or-imagename> -u taskexp

Because maybe this is needed from some other package, and you have to remove the other package too in order to see netdata removed.

If the package is always there, as a last resort you can also try to clean the entire image with:

bitbake -c cleanall <imagename>

And then rebuild it with:

bitbake <imagename>

Source: https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Inspect_DEPENDS