[yocto] Best way to "freeze" Yocto for production

[Philip Balister]

On 06/10/2014 10:31 AM, Marlon Smith wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We've decided to use Yocto in our company's product!  And I have a
> question:
> 
> Since Yocto is updated pretty frequently, at some point we'll need to
> freeze everything and keep a permanent copy so that we can make small
> changes/bug fixes without having to worry about anything being changed
> outside of our control.  My current theory is that we'll do a bitbake -c
> fetchall, then zip up the entire Yocto directory and save it somewhere
> so we'll always have a static copy.  We'll place our application and
> custom bsp layer under a separate Git repository, and then to do a build
> we'll just combine everything together and run bitbake on the whole
> thing.
> 
> Is there a better or recommended way of doing this?

This is how I provide a stable base for people doing SDR work with OE.

https://github.com/balister/oe-gnuradio-manifest/tree/daisy

I'm sure you'll get several other suggestions also.

Pick what works best for your team.

Philip

> 
> Thanks again, and I'm excited to start working with Yocto!
> 
> Marlon
> 
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