[yocto] [RFC] Binary Configuration support design

Hi, I have intiated few discussions earlier to support binary configuration tool, which allows configuration of post built binaries to generate custom image, without a need to rebuild from source. It is being tracked under bug 3252. Design to realize the same is updated in wiki.

Re: [yocto] RFC: Post build configuration

I agree that each product might have different connectivity and different configuration needs on the rootfs. However current thoughts are based on 1) Some of the common configurations of YP are currently at build time in yocto project, but appying them doesnot require a rebuild. Such

[yocto] RFC: Post build configuration

This is in reference to my previous post regarding post build configuration, with few points re-iterating to set the ground. https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2012-November/012867.html Post build configuration and need for configuration platform/model: There have been

Re: [yocto] Need for offline binary configuration

Added few more thoughts Looking for possible options to implement Offline Configuration Tool requirement. please check and comment on it. Configuration flow: a) Task do_createconfig will generate data to configure. This serves as input for configuration UI in OCT. b) OCT UI will read that

Re: [yocto] Need for offline binary configuration

Looking for comments. Thanks From: Bruce Ashfield [bruce.ashfi...@windriver.com] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 12:59 AM To: Venkata ramana gollamudi Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org; Sanil kumar; Hatle, Mark; 'dvh...@linux.intel.com' Subject: Re: [yocto] Need

Re: [yocto] Need for offline binary configuration

Reply inline -Original Message- From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:bruce.ashfi...@windriver.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 8:53 PM To: Venkata ramana gollamudi Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org; Sanil kumar; Hatle, Mark Subject: Re: [yocto] Need for offline binary configuration On 12

[yocto] Need for offline binary configuration

Poky allows to build custom Linux for you, but we have cases where the post build customization is required, like user-addition, network configuration, service control. Even selecting the required packages can be a post build activity. The current model requires the image to be rebuilt to

Re: [yocto] How do you release distros produced with Yocto? How should I?

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:43:27PM -0400, Jerrod Peach wrote: I was thinking about doing something very close to that in actual Yocto, except I'd store only the revisions/branches that were different from what the bb file prescribed in local.conf. I ran that idea by a couple of colleagues

[yocto] mechanism to disable package management on target

Hi, Is there any mechanism to disable package management, so that my rootfs should not have any package management related packages like opkg etc. I found that one of the methods ipk/rpm/deb need to be mandatorily selected. Please suggest if any such method exists. Regards, Ramana

[yocto] Problem in downloading linux-yocto source behind proxy

Hi, We tried to build yocto release downloaded from autobuilder http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/pub/nightly/20120621-3/yocto.tar.bz2 We work behind a http proxy and firewall setup from office network. Previously we used to build by setting PREMIRRORS