Hi Martin,
On 28.04.22 11:09, Martin Weber wrote:
Hi everybody!
We use yocto to build the system for some of our devices. Given we have
multiple use-cases for differing partitions on the device (rescue
system; main system in “release” flavor; main system in “development &
debug” flavor), we use different custom distros for our build.
With this mail we would like to ask the community what the best practice
for our use case are, describe our current approach, and ask whether we
can do things in a better way.
The software we use (machine/bsp layer level; software level) in
principal is the same (same upstream, internal or 3^rd party), but we
need to build them in different ways (e.g., one uses system V init, one
uses systemd init; one uses optimized-non-logging versions of the
software, another ships debug symbols and enables logging during
buildtime; one installs and enables various systemd units, another
doesn’t, etc.).
Our solution to this problem is that we have (three) different distros,
and use distro overrides to enable/disable/patch/append/delete various
bits and pieces throughout the otherwise shared recipes. The “problem”
with this is that we need to use different build environments to build
our three distros, i.e., we cannot re-use otherwise identical packages.
I do not know if what I did on a couple of projects is cleaner, bu tit
is maybe useful to mention. I have often the same topic, and I build a
"rescue" and a "production" image, and some of the packages should be
different according to the image where they are installed, and I did not
want to add dirty trick via post process commands. dropbear, base, etc.
are good examples.
What I did is to add variants of the packages, like a base-files-rescue
near the standard package, and each image file will select the variant
of the package it wants.
To do this, I added a populate_packages:prepend() to a .bbappend of the
package, so that I can inject per package the changes I want to have. At
the end, it can have a dropbear-rescue and a dropbear packages, and it
is not required to have different DISTRO.
I do not know how this can be considered a clean approach, but because
it was not yet mentioned, it is nice to have some opinions.
Regards,
Stefano
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