It also occurs to me that a source for the confusion might be that
there is more than one build process going on with BitBake. It is used
both to create packages and to install them into a rootfs in order to
create an image. Thus, the workflow looks something like this,
starting from the point of d
I'm afraid "source tarball" doesn't quite work, as not all are
required to be tarballs, e.g. if something is in a git repo or in a
local CVS repo.
Can it be true that there is no single term that refers to the
collection of pieces that, when built, create a discrete package?
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012
hat limit their work exclusively to creating indices.
Good feedback!
Thanks,
Scott
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Subject: Re: [yoc
I would like to point out Yocto's own documentation uses it for two
separate items, which is the point I was making. Neither of which are
source tarballs
It is a product produced by Yocto.
It is the items to be installed from the host system.
That may be right, but if so, we can't say that
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote:
> Anyone have a good term for "source packages"?
Source tarball?
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
>> Most of my hits for such an item
>> discuss the packages I will need to install in my host distribution so I
>> can use the yocto project (not surprised, the danger of a term as vagu
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
> Most of my hits for such an item
> discuss the packages I will need to install in my host distribution so I
> can use the yocto project (not surprised, the danger of a term as vague
> as packages).
In bitbake/yocto/OE/etc. the term "packages"
I took a look at the mega-manual for the first time after hearing
mention of it in the meeting.
>From a new user perspective, it seems a step backwards. While
everything may be there, it has the needle in the haystack feeling. The
only way to find something is to search for it, but what search t
