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Getting a detailed list of components and dependencies from Buildroot involves generating documentation or reports that enumerate the packages, their versions, dependencies, and possibly their licenses. Here are the methods to do this:

To generate legal documentation, including licenses and a manifest of all packages:

make legal-info

This command generates files in output/legal-info directory, including a manifest (manifest.csv), license files, and source files. The manifest lists each package, its version, and its license.

For generating a graph of package dependencies, ensure Graphviz is installed, then run:

make graph-depends

This produces a .dot file in output/graphs. Convert it to an image with Graphviz, for example:

dot -Tpng output/graphs/package-dependencies.dot -o dependencies.png

To get a list of configured packages and their versions:

make list-packages

To save this list to a file:

make list-packages > packages_list.txt

Ensure to save your Buildroot configuration for future reference or sharing:

make savedefconfig

or by copying the .config file manually.

These steps provide methods for extracting comprehensive information about the components and dependencies