[yocto] yocto Digest, Vol 91, Issue 105

[Alan Levy]

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> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:38:35 +0200
> From: Alan Martinovic <alan.martinovic at senic.com>
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> Subject: [yocto] Installing a package on the board at runtime
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> Hey,
> I know there is a method in devtool called devtool deploy-target.
> It's a great thing to install a package on the board at runtime.
>
> Is there something like that available without devtool?
>
>
> A digression:
> Am asking for a non devtool option because it
> seems like devtool is ignoring the patch and config files
> the recipe depends on (can't find any in workspace/sources).
> My particular recipe has a custom build step that
> depends on rendering config file templates (which fails due to missing
> not finding the config file).

Assuming that your target has an Ethernet interface you can use DNF/RPM together with a web server such as Apache or IIS to host the package repository; there are also some more lightweight package managers available.

ALAN LEVY, Lead Consultant, Embedded Systems

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