- There are tools within BitBake that enable this level of details.
“bitbake -g targetname” creates depends.dot and task-depends.dot files in the current directory. These files show which packages and tasks depend on which other packages and tasks and are useful for debugging purposes.
"bitbake -g -u depexp targetname" shows results in a more human-readable, GUI style. A simple mount of the resulting root image will show how much storage space is being used.
- In addition, the toaster is a new graphical user interface for BitBake that makes these tools much easier to use.