Re: [yocto] What is the recommended method to patch a recipe?

2020-04-13 Thread Thomas Goodwin
As with a lot of things, I’m sure it all depends on the scope of the change.   Personally, if I ‘own’ the original bbappend, then I consider if it’s worth establishing an override or some other similar mechanism within that bbappend, depending on what I’m developing (an image feature or

Re: [yocto] Creating a build system which can scale. #yocto

2020-02-17 Thread Thomas Goodwin
Since Docker was mentioned, I use the community's CROPS containers via Docker in GitLab CI on a shared build server, providing the builders' downloads and sstate caches to the team to accelerate their own builds (these paths are volume-mounted to the runners). One of the caveats to this approach