[yocto] Repository to upgrade images

[Burton, Ross]

On 16 April 2013 20:15, 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).

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