Убедитесь, что вы включаете группы пакетов в свой рецепт образа вместо конфигурации дистрибутива.
Например:
$ git diff
diff --git a/meta-my-distro/conf/distro/include/my-distro-base.inc b/meta-my-distro/conf/distro/include/my-distro-base.inc
index f4dba77..36ca349 100644
--- a/meta-my-distro/conf/distro/include/my-distro-base.inc
+++ b/meta-my-distro/conf/distro/include/my-distro-base.inc
@@ -15,13 +15,6 @@
-DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "\
- packagegroup-my-distro-misc \
-"
diff --git a/meta-my-distro/recipes-core/images/my-distro-image-base.bb b/meta-my-distro/recipes-core/images/my-distro-image-base.bb
index c896c6c..f83853d 100644
--- a/meta-my-distro/recipes-core/images/my-distro-image-base.bb
+++ b/meta-my-distro/recipes-core/images/my-distro-image-base.bb
@@ -11,5 +11,12 @@
+IMAGE_INSTALL_append += "\
+ packagegroup-my-distro-misc \
+"