2024-09-19 –, Styhead
Every Yocto developer has experienced it: a minor change in a recipe triggers a bunch of other recipes to be rebuilt. What if we could prevent other recipes from being rebuilt each time? The Yocto community has been wanting a solution for this for years, and now it’s here! Enter bblock. With bblock, you can lock recipes - and even a single task inside a recipe - to prevent them from being rebuilt. Knowing how to use bblock will help you save a lot of development time in all your Yocto based projects!
This presentation will introduce bblock, cover its key use cases and provide a practical guide on how to use it.
Julien Stephan is an enthusiastic open source developer since he started computer science school 11 years ago. He currently works at Baylibre on the Linux kernel (mainly on camera support and iio-subsystem) and the Yocto Project, contributing back to upstream as much as possible, especially on the Yocto Project (bblock and devtool).