On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Op 27 jun. 2012 om 11:09 heeft Tomas Frydrych <[email protected]> > het volgende geschreven: > > > Hi Tim, > > > > On 26/06/12 19:52, Tim Bird wrote: > >> On 06/26/2012 10:18 AM, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > >> For example, after reading various FAQs > >> I still have no idea what kind of thing "Poky" is. I know > >> that bitbake is a build tool. I know that OE is a package > >> meta-information project. Yocto Project is an umbrella project > >> for a lot of tools and technologies (Poky among them). But is > >> Poky a distro (sample/reference or otherwise?) or something else? > > > > For those of us who have been around Poky well before Yocto came around, > > we know what Poky used to be, have some inkling what it is, but we are > > not always entirely clear what Yocto is. :-) > > > > > >> When I ran my recently-built image, my target /etc/issue had this > content: > >> "Yocto (Built by Poky 7.0) 1.2" > > > > My understanding (with the above disclaimer!) is that Poky is a build > > system, Yocto is a distro, so I read the above 'Yocto v1.2 image built > > by the Poky v7.0 tool'. I think the point of maintaining the distinction > > is that you can use Poky without the Yocto Distro (/meta-yocto). > > > Yocto is NOT a distro. Poky is both a distro and buildsystem. This thread > highlights the reason the oe folks have been pushing to get rid of the > 'poky' name completely to avoid needless confusing situations like this. > It's sad to see that even the official stuff gets it wrong... > > I took a stab at clarifying the terminology in a blog post back in April. I *think* I got it mostly right ;) http://blogs.mentor.com/chrishallinan/blog/2012/04/13/yocto-versus-poky-versus-angstrom-etc/ Regards, Chris -- Life is like Linux - it never stands still.
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