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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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Using supported package formats

From a Yocto Project perspective, a recipe may generate one or more output packages. A package wraps a set of files and metadata in a way that makes them available in the future. They can be installed into one or more images or deployed for later use.

Packages are critical to Poky, as they enable the build system to produce diverse types of artifacts, such as images and toolchains.

List of supported package formats

Currently, BitBake supports four different package formats:

  • Red Hat Package Manager (RPM): Originally named Red Hat Package Manager but now known as the RPM package format since its adoption by several other Linux distributions, this is a popular format in use in Linux distributions such as SuSE, OpenSuSE, Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS.
  • Debian Package Manager (DEB): This is a widespread format used in Debian and several other Debian-based distributions – Ubuntu Linux and Linux Mint are the most widely known.
  • Itsy...
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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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