We know that this approach is a bit different from the Yocto way of
building all from sources and we acknowledge the benefits of doing so
when building for specific hardware requirements. However, this
integration has been requested by Conan users already managing their
packages with Conan for
Pulling down things from the network in do_install() is not the best
option. Is reproducibility and integrity of such downloads guaranteed? What
about the component licensing, where is that checked (against upstream
changes)? Also, yocto's download caching and mirroring facility is
side-stepped
Hi!
We have developed an integration with Yocto for the open-source Conan
C/C++ package manager.
This integration includes the ability to cross-build packages with a
Yocto SDK Toolchain and later deploy them in the Yocto build.
We have created a blog post with a brief introduction to the Yocto
