How to Combine Debian and Yocto/Bitbake? - Manuel Traut, Linutronix GmbH
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2017-10-25

How to Combine Debian and Yocto/Bitbake? - Manuel Traut, Linutronix GmbH

Debian is popular for its stability and security. ELBE utilizes Debian to create system images from Debian binary packages and supports building modified Debian source packages. This allows automated monitoring for security updates, which becomes more and more important.

ELBE has its shortcomings vs. yocto/bitbake. Building root file systems for an architecture unsupported by Debian or variant management beyond the selection of packages, e.g. applying patches depending on the target, is not supported.

Yocto/bitbake main focus is on that flexibility for the price of maintenance, security and bugfix tracking of all upstream packages. So utilizing Debian sources as base for bitbake might combine the best of both worlds.

This talk looks at various efforts, like meta-isar and meta-debian, which combine yocto/bitbake, Debian and ELBE. New ideas and possible solutions are shown.

About Manuel Traut
Manuel works as Software Specialist at Linutronix GmbH since 2007. Over the years he gained experience in building Linux BSPs with different methods and toolkits. With this knowledge in mind he currently maintains the embedded linux build environment (ELBE http://elbe-rfs.org). ELBE reuses as much as possible from the Debian project. He regularly acts as Trainer for various embedded Linux topics (Yocto, Debian, Kernel Development, ..) and has given Linux related talks at RTLWS, LinuxTag and Chemnitzer Linuxtage and Embedded Linux Conference Europe.