On Nov 7, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2011-11-07 15:15, James Abernathy wrote: >> I thought the idea was to build a recipe for your device that could create >> the software complete with all the pieces. Certainly, having a list of >> packages that you need to install >> via zypper is fine, but I thought that not the concept behind Yocto??? >> Sorry for the dumb questions. > > It's actually a combination of both worlds - you can use existing recipes > to add functionality by just including those packages in your system, either > at initial build time or by using the packaging tools. You can also easily > write your own recipes to build specialized packages. The combination is > up to you.
So if I wanted to build Firefox into my Yocto project. How is that done?? Jim A > > A point of terminology - recipes are used to construct packages which can > then be installed, etc. They are functional units, not necessarily tied > to any particular device or system. > > n.b. top posting on mailing lists makes your replies harder to follow :-( > >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Gary Thomas <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 2011-11-07 14:59, James Abernathy wrote: >> >> I approach embedded Linux from a path of taking a Distro like Ubuntu >> or Fedora and chopping it down to a working set of code that forms the final >> solution. Obviously, not >> the same >> methology as Yocto. With some success with the current methods, it's >> difficult to see the advantages of Yocto. I'm reading what I can find to >> get smarting on Yocto, but >> like most >> new concepts, you try to compare what you used to do with how to do >> it with the new concept. >> For example, if I use a distro, I can install packages really simply >> with yum or apt-get; update them the same way. If I start with a Yocto >> meta-??? that's closest to my >> hardware >> solution, and get it working at a base level, how do I add things, >> like browsers, or other application? >> >> >> Using very similar tools - zypper is just like yum, or if >> you choose to use ipk packages, opkg > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Gary Thomas | Consulting for the > MLB Associates | Embedded world > ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
