About Yocto

Yocto is an opensource embedded linux build system. We can maintain software packages as layers in Yocto. Yocto almost support all opensource build tools, download sources from various version control repositories and ftps sites. Yocto supports different packages used in linux distributions like deb,rpm,ipk,cpio.

Bitbake

Bitbake is tool written in python, used in Yocoto build system. Using bitbake we can build a custom Embedded Linux distro. This article gives you some of the useful command we execised during our project.

The bitbake Useful commands

Cleaning a build

bitbake -c <package-name or recipe name>
bitbake -c cleansstate core-image-sato

Dependency explorer

bitbake -g <core-image-sato> -u depexp