in trying to resolve a minor issue this weekend regarding PREMIRRORS, i tried to summarize the current set of yocto-related docs and wound up just a bit confused so i'm hoping someone can clarify the canonical set of documentation someone getting into yocto would want to have.
as i read it, one can look at yocto in a series of intellectual layers, simplest to most complex: * bitbake * OE-core * poky * yocto first, is that a reasonable way to look at the software collection? if so, how do the docs line up against this? first, there's the bitbake user manual here: http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/index.html it seems like that manual hasn't been updated for a while (or has it?). is that the current state of the documentation for bitbake? it seems incomplete, unless i'm unclear on how the software is broken up. next, there's OE-core, for which the wiki page seems to be the most current doc: http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded-Core moving on to poky, the web site http://pokylinux.org/ really doesn't take care to distinguish between poky and yocto since the "About" link immediately jumps one over to the yocto project "About" page, which really blurs the line between poky and yocto, deliberately or otherwise. as for poky documentation, the Documentation tab over at yocto has a link to the "Poky Reference Manual" but there is also a Poky Handbook which is *not* linked from there and is not even clearly linked from the poky site itself -- here's the handbook: http://pokylinux.org/doc/poky-handbook.html which is clearly back at the poky site but you would be hard-pressed to find that handbook starting at the poky linux main page and following links. so ... what is the state of docs and support these days, for both documentation and mailing lists? i was wondering about something involving PREMIRRORS and i ended up unsure as to what to read or which mailing list i could consult. thoughts? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
