On 16 April 2013 20:15, Trevor Woerner <twoer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Edward Vidal <vidal.devel...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Are there any plans to provide a repo of pkgs where systems can be upgraded >> and new pkgs installed like other distro Fedora, CentOS, and rhel? This >> would also require yum or the new software that is replacing yum. > > I doubt it. The Yocto Project is not an embedded Linux distribution – > it creates a custom one for you. Providing a public package upgrade > repository is fine for a given distribution (e.g. Fedora, Debian, etc) > because it can make assumptions regarding the compiler, c library, > build/configuration options, etc. If you are creating your own > distributions, any of those variable can be tweaked, therefore making > any such public repository useless. > > If you would like to have such an ability for your devices, you'll > need have to create your own public site and build the packages > yourself (all of which will incorporate any of your specific > "tweaks"). Yocto will help you do that (and make it easy) but doing > this in a generic way for everyone's Yocto distribution would be > impossible (I would think).
Yes, a generic approach would be impossible because of the nature of Yocto. As an example though, the Angstrom distribution that is build using the Yocto Project *does* expose and support package feeds for on-device upgrades. Ross _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto