Do suppliers of FOSS components like Qt LGPL, Weston/Wayland, Linux BSPs, containers and OTA update solutions have to perform no, light-touch or full CRA compliance? The answer affects how much due diligence machine and device manufacturers must exercise for these components in their CRA compliance.
Once we have removed an item from a BitBake variable, we cannot re-append it. The evaluation of the following three assignments of the variable BB_VAR yields the same result, no matter in which order the assignments are executed.
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Episode 51: Better Built By Burkhard
How hard can it be to write a Yocto recipe for building a Qt application with CMake? Actually, it turns out to be pretty hard. I have seen my fair share of slow-and-dirty workarounds (nothing is ever quick
Manufacturers keep their proprietary software in private git repositories. During the build, Yocto recipes fetch the private sources from inside a container. This requires a special SSH setup.
Kas makes Yocto builds simple. Based on a YAML configuration file, kas starts a container, clones the layer repositories, initialises the conf files and starts building. Each Yocto version builds only on specific host Linux versions. The kas container frees Yocto builds from this restriction.