[yocto] Install binary package, rpm or ipk

2023-07-26 Thread csimmonds
Hi list, Random question: does anyone know of a (nice) way to install a package file, rpm or ipk, that is generated by a 3rd party yocto build, but for which we don't have the recipe? Cheers, Chris -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online

Re: [yocto] OE Linux & board-support-package

2022-05-05 Thread csimmonds
BSP is not a well defined term in embedded Linux. Back in the day, Montavista tried to popularise the term LSP, meaning Linux Support Package but it never caught on. These days, BSP generally means all the things you need to run a basic system. So that's bootloader, device tree, kernel config,

Re: [yocto] On managing debug and production builds

2022-03-02 Thread csimmonds
Hi Karthik, On 02/03/2022 03:22, Karthik Poduval wrote: > This concept of user vs debug builds is there in Android and any > Android developer who gets introduced to yocto may look for these > options. There seem to be many implementation choices here, trying to > summarize some of the options

Re: [yocto] Distro upgrade strategies

2020-06-19 Thread csimmonds
I would like to add that this is a design decision. Package updates, be they based on rpm, deb, or ipk, are not atomic. Which means that if you power off during an update the system will usually not boot afterwards. This is not a problem with servers in data centers with redundant power supplies

Re: [yocto] how to establish a link between source code and s specific execuable #yocto

2020-04-20 Thread csimmonds
On 20/04/2020 08:17, zhangyifa...@huawei.com wrote: > Hello, > I have a question about the question, how to establish a link between > source code and s specific execuable. > Let me explain this. > For example ,  the output of a project has many excutables,like lzma,xz, > etc. Then i'd like to