Hi Tal,


First, thanks for checking and considering using Yocto Project.  Please send 
your future questions to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
mailing list, that's the general mailing list for all Yocto project related 
issue/questions.



As to your problem of hob download about 5.5GB of data. Keep in mind, hob is 
just a UI front end to bitbake.  And bitbake relies on meta data to build out 
things and download the sources, etc.  I've checked with our kernel guy, 
according to him, the upstream kernel source is about 2.2GB and on top of that 
we also download the git history data, etc.  So after running the build, 5.5GB 
seems in line with what should be expected.



Thanks,

Jessica



From: rafayocto rafayocto [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 7:44 AM
To: Zhang, Jessica
Subject: Question about Yocto



Hello Jessica,

My name is Tal and me and my associates were in the Linux conference at Prague 
Oct 2011.

we saw your lecture about the hob and about Yocto and were really moved by the 
idea of building our own linux distribution.

so we downloaded the Edison release. installed the Env, installed the eclipse 
plugin and started building our first kernel.

we thought that we will use the Hob and give it a small run with qemux86 and 
build the minimal core default settings, and.... Bake.



the hob downloaded about 5.5GB of data to our hard disk, this seems a bit to 
much for a minimal kernel, vanilla kernel is less then 1GB and it is way more 
then a minimal core.



so we thought we did something wrong, uninstalled and re-installed using he 
Yocto tutorials on YouTube and got the same result.

when we thought that  we might need to ask the experts we found that there is 
no forum( what a shame, that would have been help-full) instead there is a 
mailing list where most people complain and no one answered us.



please contact us and let us know if we did something wrong, is it normal(to 
download 5.5GB), and what should we do next

Thanks

Tal



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