From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:41:55 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] Workflow question - separating the distribution from embedded applications References: Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2016-07-20, Michael Habibi wrote: > With buildroot, I imagine we can do the same thing since it also > builds a root filesystem. However I am trying to understand a workflow > where we could build the distribution's root filesystem of the > distribution separate from our embedded applications. We use buildroot to build the root filesystem (including the ipkg package manager). Application developers build applications separately and package them as .ipk packages. We then install each set of .ipk packages into a JFFS2 filesystem image. [This is don't on a development host, not on the target.] We then distribute two images: the kermel+rootfs uImage, and the JFFS2 filesystem image containing all of the applications. The former rarely gets updated and is common across several products. The latter gets updated much more frequently and there are various different flavors of it for different products. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I feel partially at hydrogenated! gmail.com