Building and Maintaining Binary Distributions with Yocto
summary
Yocto can produce ready-made images plus package feeds and recent work (funded by the Sovereign Tech Fund) adds a PR server read-only mode and an upstream PR server with local override so a downloaded image can get upstream updates while local packages override them; tooling includes starting a PR server, setting PACKAGE_CLASSES, adding enable package-management to EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES, and running bitbake package-index. Prototype autobuilder tests upgrading older images through feeds exist, SPDX update on-package remains missing, and package-based updates are not yet atomic.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:10Presentation goals
- 7:05Binary vs custom rootfs
- 11:22Binary distros in Yocto
- 16:45Package feeds with Yocto
- 23:27PR server features
- 35:07Missing features
- 36:51Key takeaways
- 38:16Q&A
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