Guidelines to follow for Yocto Project
This section aims to gather some guidelines for aspects of the Yocto Project metadata and project organization tips that make our life easier in terms of short- and long-term maintenance.
Managing layers
As our journey in product development advances, we will naturally use multiple repositories to meet the needs we face. Keeping track of the repositories is a complex challenge as we need to do the following:
- Make sure we can reproduce a previous build in the future
- Allow multiple team members to work in the same code base
- Validate the changes we make using Continuous Integration tools
- Avoid subtle changes in the layers we use
Those goals are intimidating, but a few tools are in use, with different strategies to overcome those challenges.
The simplest solution uses the image-buildinfo class (https://docs.yoctoproject.org/4.0.4/ref-manual/classes.html#image-buildinfo-bbclass), which writes a plain text file containing...
