[yocto] <rant>the current yocto FAQ is pretty much valueless</rant>

[Chris Hallinan]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at beagleboard.org> wrote:

>
>
> Op 27 jun. 2012 om 11:09 heeft Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists.yocto at r-finger.com>
> 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
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