[yocto] use case howto?

[James Abernathy]

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 <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> 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
> 
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