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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


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

A recipe may generate one or more packages as a result of it being executed by BitBake. On the other hand, images and toolchains are made of several packages that are unpacked and configured to accomplish the intended goal. The generated result is wrapped in such a way that it can be installed into one or more images, or it can be deployed for later use.

List of supported package formats

Currently, BitBake supports four different package formats:

  • RPM: Originally named Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), but now known as the RPM package format since its adoption by several other Linux distributions, it is used by popular Linux distributions such as SuSE, OpenSuSE, Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS, among others.
  • DEB: The Debian Package Manager is used by Debian and several other Debian-based distributions; the most widely known among them are...
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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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