soleen/yocto repository overview

⁠yocto

⁠About

This repo contains docker image for building the yocto images.

Use the script yocto⁠ to switch yocto building environment and use docker to build the Yocto project⁠ instad of installing ubuntu in a VM.

⁠Setting up

First download the yocto⁠ as ~/bin/yocto

mkdir -p ~/bin
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/soleen/yocto/master/yocto > ~/bin/yocto
chmod +x ~/bin/yocto

Add following line to the ~/.bashrc file to ensure that the ~/bin folder is in you PATH variable.

export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

⁠Basic Usage

First time to use the yocto command, you need to tell it where is the workdir we build the yocto image.

For example, if I want to build yocto at /home/soleen/poky then:

yocto --workdir /home/soleen/poky

After this command, we'll create a container named yocto, which is the environment we used to build the yocto image. Now you'll find your current shell is switch to the container and the /home/soleen/poky is mounted to /yocto.

⁠Spawn a new shell

If you want to spawn a new shell in another terminal, you can use

yocto --shell

This will spawn a new shell if you already specify a workdir.

⁠Remove the container

This script only support ONLY ONE CONTAINER, so If you want to change the workdir, you should remove it first, remove a container is easy, just use following command:

yocto --rm

Then you can setup a new workdir you want.

⁠Upgrade script

Upgrade this script is easy, just type

yocto --upgrade

⁠Pull new docker container

To pull new docker image, just type

yocto --pull