Summary
I know that was a lot to absorb. And trust me – this is just the beginning. Yocto certainly has a steep learning curve. Luckily, there is lots of documentation and a friendly community to guide you. There is also devtool to automate much of the tedium and mistakes of copy-paste development. If you use the tools provided for you and continually save your work to your own layers, Yocto doesn’t have to be painful. Before you know it, you’ll be rolling your own distro layer and running your own remote package server.
A remote package server is just one way to deploy packages and applications. We will learn about a few others later in Chapter 15. Despite the title, some of the techniques we’ll look at in that chapter (e.g., conda) apply to any programming language. While package managers are great for development, runtime package management is not commonly used on embedded systems running in production. We will look closely at full image and containerized...
