Bitbake: How to list all recipe and append files used in an image?

Question

I'm using OpenEmbedded-Core and have created a custom layer with priority 6. Months of development have gone by, and now I want to increase my layer's priority to 8 because an append file from another layer with priority 7 is interfering with an append file I'm adding in my layer.

My question is, how can I generate a list of recipes and .bbappend files used in an image?

I want to generate the list both before and after I make the priority change so that I can compare them (with a difftool hopefully) to see if any unexpected side-effects occurred, like an important append file from the other layer getting ignored potentially.

I'm using the angstrom-v2014.12-yocto1.7 branch of the Angstrom distribution.

[EDIT]

I'm now primarily just interested in determining how to list which .bbappend files are actually used by my image at this point.

A list of packages can be viewed using "bitbake -g your-image-name" as suggested by @pnxs, or from the .manifest file (which is what I like to use) which in my case is located under deploy/glibc/images/imagename/. I originally asked how a list of "recipe files" could be generated, but I think a list of packages is sufficient.

Regarding the .bbappends though, I had a case where my own .bbappend was ignored due to layer priorities. I made a change to my layer priorities and now want to see if that caused any .bbappend files anywhere else in my image to get ignored. As I understand it, using "bitbake-layers show-appends" as suggested lists all .bbappends present rather than just those which are actually used in the creation of an image, so this doesn't do what I'm looking for.

Answer 1

Try using "bitbake-layers show-appends" to see what bbappends are used. But that will only work on a per-recipe basis. But that might give you the information you need to understand the priorities.

Answer 2

You can do a "bitbake -g your-image-name" which creates some dot-files in the current directory.

The file "pn-depends.dot" contains a list of package-names (pn) and the dependencies between them.

When you take the first part of the file where all packages are listed, you see for example:

"busybox" [label="busybox :1.23.1-r0.2\n/home/user/yocto/sources/poky/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.23.1.bb"] "base-files" [label="base-files :3.0.14-r89\n/home/user/yocto/sources/poky/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb"]

So you got a list of all packages used by your image and the corresponding recipe-file.

To see which of the recpies are extended by bbappend you have to get the list of bbappends with "bitbake-layers show-appends" and look up the appends of every recipe. You can write a little python-program that can do that for you.