meta-actions Image Build

Required packages on Ubuntu

This section provides required packages on an Ubuntu Linux distribution:

Essentials

Packages needed to build an image for a headless system:

$ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib \
    build-essential chrpath socat cpio python python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect \
    xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping python-git repo bmap-tools

Download meta-actions project manifest

To easily manage different git repositories layers, meta-actions project is using Android repo tool,

First initialize repo specifying the project manifest and the corresponding branch:

$ repo init -u https://github.com/Linumiz/meta-actions.git/ -m conf/samples/manifest-actions.xml -b master

then checkout the project source tree:

$ repo sync

Configuring the project

meta-actions offers pre-configured machine templates, tested and ready to use.

Cautions: Default machine from template is cubieboard7. The following machines are supported,

• cubieboard7
• bubblegum96

$ cd actions/
$ TEMPLATECONF=meta-actions/conf/samples/ source oe-init-build-env

Build the project

$ bitbake actions-basic-image