Hello Chris, do you think any of these pieces could be moved to 'official yocto', specifically as bitbake-layers subcommands? I read through the README, and it seems that things like 'status' and 'run' would fit very well there.
Also note that there's a proposal for a json schema and layer tooling that would be provided directly in oe-core: https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib/log/?h=akanavin/setup-layers I can't help but say that there's a certain bit of irony in referring to https://xkcd.com/1987/ - when introducing yet another external tool for yocto layer management :-) Alex On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 at 22:21, Chris Laplante via lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Today I’m excited to publish a tool I’ve been developing internally for about > a year now. It is called ‘yb’, and you can think of it like a cross between > kas, Google’s repo, and myrepos (mr). > > > > Project page: https://github.com/Agilent/yb > > Download it here: https://github.com/Agilent/yb/releases/tag/0.0.11 > > > > The tool is written in Rust. It is statically linked, so all you need to do > is download the binary and put it somewhere in PATH. > > > > The primary contribution I believe this tool makes is the ability to not only > setup Yocto environments, but keep them in sync with the rest of your team as > your product(s) evolve. This is realized via the ‘stream’ mechanism - a git > repo that holds your specs (basically like kas’ configuration files). Most > operations in yb automatically fetch updates to the active stream before > doing anything. If you need to add or remove a layer from your build, just do > it in the stream. Anyone using that stream will automatically get the update > and be informed to update their environment. > > > > I am also very proud of the ‘status’ command. It works even with vanilla > Yocto environments (i.e. what you’re using today) as long as the tool can > find “bitbake” on PATH. The “status” command will automatically do a ‘git > fetch’ on each layer. When used along with streams/specs, it will also first > check for updates to the stream. > > > > I hope you can give it a try and let me know what you find useful/broken. It > is still in relatively early development (in particular the ‘yb sync’ > command) but it is already helpful for my teams’ day-to-day work. > > > > (P.S. Please forgive the multi-mailing list post) > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > >
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