Currently, BitBake supports four different package formats:
- RPM: Originally named Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), but now known as the RPM package format since its adoption by several other Linux distributions, it is used by popular Linux distributions such as SuSE, OpenSuSE, Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS, among others.
- DEB: The Debian Package Manager is used by Debian and several other Debian-based distributions; the most widely known among them are Ubuntu Linux and Linux Mint.
- IPK: The Itsy Package Management System was a lightweight package management system designed for embedded devices that resembled Debian's package format. The initial project was discontinued, and several of the embedded build systems ...