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List:       openembedded-architecture
Subject:    Re: [Openembedded-architecture] kas: Setup tool for bitbake based projects
From:       akuster808 <akuster808 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-11-07 15:51:41
Message-ID: 972845ee-de62-f5a3-dba9-9080a825f54b () gmail ! com
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On 11/03/2017 04:36 AM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've did 'sales pitch' at the Yocto booth (ELCE) last week. I was asked
> to post this on this mailing list. We (Siemens) are using this tool for
> setting up a bunch of Yocto projects and are quite happy with it. Maybe
> it might be useful for someone else too. It is not perfect, doesn't
> solve all problems. And it might eat your cat...
>
> Anyway, what is it? kas a simple tool to setup bitbake based projects.
>
> The OpenEmbedded tooling support starts at step 2 with bitbake. The
> downloading of sources and then configuration has to be done by hand.
> Usually, this is explained in a README. Instead kas is using a project
> configuration file and does the download and configuration phase.

Thanks for sharing. I can see the application being beneficial to folks.

>
> Key features provided by the build tool:
>
>  - clone and checkout bitbake layers
>  - create default bitbake settings (machine, arch, ...)
>  - launch minimal build environment
>  - initiate bitbake build process
>
> The aim was to support CI builds and also allowing novice users to get
> something in one command line (well let's say very few).
>
> Let's have a simple example:
>
> 	$ pip3 install kas
> 	$ git clone https://github.com/siemens/meta-iot2000.git
> 	$ kas build meta-iot200/meta-iot2000-example/kas.yml
>
>
> kas.yml:
>
> """
> header:
>   version: 2
>   includes:
>     - file: meta-iot2000-bsp/kas.yml
>       repo: meta-iot2000
>
> target: iot2000-example-image
>
> repos:
>   meta-iot2000:
>     layers:
>       meta-iot2000-example:
>
>   meta-intel-iot-middleware:
>     url: https://git.yoctoproject.org/git/meta-intel-iot-middleware
>     refspec: fc8eabfa4fb54802d3f97123b9d2954450175e33
>
>   meta-nodejs:
>     url: https://github.com/imyller/meta-nodejs
>     refspec: eec531e97a17bfd406f3bf76dee4057dcf5286a4
>
> local_conf_header:
>   package_ipk: |
>     PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_ipk"
> """
>
> It is also possible to have recursive yml files, such as above
> "meta-iot2000-bsp/kas.yml.
>
> There is also a prepared docker image with the tool installed which
> makes the CI setup in our case a two liner.

Should we find a home for "3-party tools" on OE wiki so we can capture this?

- armin
>
> And here is the code:
>
> 	https://github.com/siemens/kas
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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