oe-depends-dot in Yocto

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oe-depends-dot utility analyses recipe-depends.dot file generated by bitbake -g command and provide you with options to
  • Find out why a particular recipe is built means who is including this recipe
  • Find out the dependencies of the particular recipe



To use oe-depends-dot utility you need to first generate recipe-depends.dot file



E.g. bitbake -g core-image-minimal generates .dot files



To find out the dependencies of a particular recipe:



E.g. oe-depends-dot -d -k <recipename> recipe-depends.dot
$ oe-depends-dot -d -k sed recipe-depends.dot
Depends: ncurses db libffi diffutils pseudo-native ptest-runner dwarfsrcfiles-native gawk openssl gettext-native gcc-runtime binutils-cross-x86_64 autoconf-native opkg-utils-native python3 libtool-cross quilt-native zlib base-files sqlite3 m4 bzip2 flex bc rpm-native automake-native cryptodev-linux libtool-native opkg-utils gdbm glibc-locale gnu-config-native make readline xz glibc perl gcc-cross-x86_64 libgcc bash linux-libc-headers

To find out why a particular recipe is included in the image.
E.g. oe-depends-dot -w -k <recipename> recipe-depends.dot
$ oe-depends-dot -w -k sed recipe-depends.dot
Because: logrotate libpcre bash xf86-video-vesa harfbuzz parted gawk keymaps connman core-image-minimal-initramfs gtk+ libvncserver busybox libxt pulseaudio libsdl opkg-utils bluez5 bc consolekit xf86-input-libinput gst-examples glib-networking libepoxy alsa-plugins kmod ofono glib-2.0 gnome-themes-standard gdbm gstreamer1.0 grep flex libcheck attr x11vnc python3-pygobject librsvg fstests dbus-glib grub python3-setuptools gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly initramfs-framework openssl ltp xserver-xorg udev-extraconf dbus mpg123 initramfs-module-setup-live initramfs-module-install at-spi2-core gconf coreutils gobject-introspection acl gnome-desktop-testing procps libtool diffutils thermald atk dbus-test python3-pycairo libnss-mdns alsa-utils python gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad xprop systemd-boot vulkan avahi bash-completion xf86-video-fbdev ca-certificates util-linux gstreamer1.0-plugins-base alsa-state at mesa-demos unzip python3 core-image-minimal xwininfo libxml2 libcroco screen syslinux btrfs-tools iproute2 wpa-supplicant gtk+3 blktool pango libgudev initramfs-module-install-efi grub-efi shadow readline lame ncurses cpio libinput libsoup-2.4 xrestop curl gzip mesa gstreamer1.0-plugins-good expect python3-dbus tar perl gdk-pixbuf packagegroup-core-tools-testapps gstreamer1.0-libav glew packagegroup-core-boot dpkg which shared-mime-info lrzsz cronie sysvinit e2fsprogs kbd libglu eudev x11perf wayland elfutils at-spi2-atk mg cairo libxmu bzip2

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