[bitbake-devel] Feedback on HOB (new image creator GUI)

[Joshua Lock]

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 08:36 -0600, Yu, Ke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As you may already know, a new GUI has been added to bitbake recently, 
> i.e. HOB (Human Oriented Builder).

It's not really an acronym, it's just a name - Hob.

>  It is a graphical image creator that 
> allows user to freely choose which packages to be built in the image. 
> The wiki https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/BitBake/GUI/Hob  has more 
> detail.

I'll be fleshing this page out over the coming weeks.

> 
> This email is to collect your feedback on the HOB. Current HOB is our 
> first version, and it surely has many place to improve. We has the plan 
> to enhance it in Yocto 1.2. So we really hope that you can use it and 
> provide your valuable feedback . We do think user's feedback/requirement 
> is the right way to go. Looking forward your valuable input.
> 
> Best Regards
> Ke
> 
> Ps. The simple way to run hob is:
> # touch conf/hob-pre.conf conf/hob-post.conf
> # bitbake -u hob -r conf/hob-pre.conf -R conf/hob-post.conf

In oe-core (and therefore Poky) we have a wrapper script so from an
oe-init-build-env'd build directory you can just call hob.

The script will create the required configuration files with some
required values.

Regards,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre