Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition

Building and testing your recipe

During development, devtool can build the recipe in the working directory with the following syntax:

$ devtool build <recipe-name>

It can then be copied to the target via SSH with the following command:

$ devtool deploy-target <recipe-name> <user>@<target-ip>[:<destdir>]

Here,

• recipe-name is the name of the recipe
• user is the SSH username to log in with
• target-ip is the IP address of the target device that is running the SSH server
• destdir is the destination path in the target device

This is the equivalent to performing a do_install over SSH, so no dependencies are managed as this process does not use the package manager. Once the testing is finished, the deployed files can be removed with the following ...