[yocto] Repository to upgrade images

[Edward Vidal]

With that said how does Angstrom which uses opkg upgrades images that are
build with Angstrom.   I prefer Yocto but I had some pre-built image that
came with my beagleboard and I used opkg upgrade  and opkg install
gfortran.   Also has anyone built gfortran, libgfortran, and numpy?
Currently these are some dependencies that I need for GNURADIO?
Thanks Any and all help is appreciated
Ed


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Edward Vidal <vidal.develone at 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).
>
> > Does any of embedded boards support PXE?
>
> Whether or not a board can boot via TFTP is a function of the
> bootloader. u-boot supports TFTP booting so theoretically this should
> be possible. Whether or not TFTP is enabled in your u-boot build
> and/or whether or not your BSP includes and builds your own u-boot is
> another question.
>
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