[yocto] Web Hob - two additional design ideas

[Barros Pena, Belen]

Thanks, Dave. 

Cheers

Belen

On 27/06/2012 20:17, "Stewart, David C" <david.c.stewart at intel.com> wrote:

>Gang ­ there are a couple of ideas for Web Hob that we have talked about.
>I don't remember seeing them in the various movies and documents. So I'm
>going to throw them out there to get your feedback and hopefully get them
>in the design.
>
>* Visualizing the image
>
>One of the things which frustrates me about GUI tools which build Linux
>images is that you usually get a long list of packages to choose from,
>but no real guidance. I think there are a couple of interesting ways to
>visualize what is in the image.
>
>One would be to add more visual information about what makes up the
>image, maybe like a pie chart or linear chart which shows the breakdown
>between kernel, libraries, commands; perhaps with some drill down into
>these categories to show which libraries, for example.  This could be
>extremely useful for tuning a poky-tiny image for its footprint size.
>
>I find I'm also struggling with figuring out how to add a whole
>subsystem, rather than picking out the packages.  This goes beyond the
>scroll list of packages to add higher-level groups of packages. This
>might be already present in how we present Tasks to select, so it might
>already be there.
>
>* Finalizing your device's source offer
>
>One of the things the Project has been praised on is our support for
>building license compliant embedded distributions. This turns out to be
>one of the biggest challenges when people use Linux for their embedded
>devices - often the Linux gets shipped out on the embedded device, but
>the sources are not made available as specified in the GPL.  Through our
>tracking and validating of source licenses in recipes, the logic in the
>build system to restrict licenses used, and the source manifests
>generated in the build, I think we have a world class solution. This
>really needs to be supported well in Web Hob.
>
>So the requirement here is that when a build is completed, you not only
>get access to the image (and kernel) but maybe also a tar file of the
>sources and scripts used to build the image, for purposes of GPL license
>compliance.
>
>

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