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Published inApr 2023
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Otavio Salvador
Otavio Salvador
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Otavio Salvador

Otavio Salvador loves technology and started his free software activities in 1999. In 2002, he founded O.S. Systems, a company focused on embedded system development services and consultancy worldwide, creating and maintaining customized BSPs, and helping companies with their product developments challenges. This resulted in his joining the OpenEmbedded community in 2008, when he became an active contributor to the OpenEmbedded project.
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Daiane Angolini
Daiane Angolini
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Daiane Angolini

Daiane Angolini has been working with embedded Linux since 2008. She has been working as an application engineer at NXP, acting on internal development, porting custom applications from Android, and on-site customer support for i.MX architectures in areas such as the Linux kernel, u-boot, Android, Yocto Project, and user-space applications. However, it was on the Yocto Project that she found her place.
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Package feeds

As discussed in Chapter 5, Grasping the BitBake Tool, packages play a vital role, as images and Software Development Kits (SDKs) rely on them. In fact, do_rootfs uses a local repository to fetch binary packages when generating those artifacts. This repository is known as a package feed.

There is no reason for this repository to be used just for the images or SDK build steps. Several valid reasons exist for making this repository remotely accessible, either internally in our development environment or publicly. Some of these reasons are as follows:

  • You can easily test an updated application during the development stage, without requiring a complete system re-installation
  • You can make additional packages more flexible so that they can be installed in a running image
  • You can update products in the field

To produce a solid package feed, we must ensure that we have consistent increments in the package revision every time the package is changed. It...

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Otavio Salvador

Otavio Salvador loves technology and started his free software activities in 1999. In 2002, he founded O.S. Systems, a company focused on embedded system development services and consultancy worldwide, creating and maintaining customized BSPs, and helping companies with their product developments challenges. This resulted in his joining the OpenEmbedded community in 2008, when he became an active contributor to the OpenEmbedded project.
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Daiane Angolini

Daiane Angolini has been working with embedded Linux since 2008. She has been working as an application engineer at NXP, acting on internal development, porting custom applications from Android, and on-site customer support for i.MX architectures in areas such as the Linux kernel, u-boot, Android, Yocto Project, and user-space applications. However, it was on the Yocto Project that she found her place.
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