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In recent years, the [https://www.yoctoproject.org/ Yocto build system] has gained popularity in the embedded world. Many silicon vendors such as NXP e Xilinx base their Board Support Packages (BSP) on this tool. Despite the fact that Yocto is very powerful and rich, it may be fairly tricky to use, however, especially during the development stage when developers generally need a lot of flexibility. In particular, the unavailability of an archive of prebuilt common packages—as opposed to most of server/desktop Linux distributions—can be really annoying. As described [[Working_with_the_Yocto_build_system|here]], Yocto is basically devised to build an entire distribution from scratch indeed.
To mitigate this drawback, the technique described in [[https://wiki.dave.eu/index.php/XELK-AN-003:_Package_Management_with_Yocto|this article]] can be used. In essence, one can build all the packages supported by Yocto (<code>bitbake -k world</code>) and make them available through a <code>smart</code> channel on a local server. Developers working on the target can easily install required packages without having to build them.
Interestingly, in recent BSP's, NXP indicates a little different approach, which goes even further as it is also open to interfacing to the Debian world. The following excerpt is taken from ''NXP i.MX Yocto Project User's Guide, Document Number: IMXLXYOCTOUG, Rev. L5.4.24_2.1.0, 06/2020'':
In principle, the adoption of the Debian package management should allow to use prebuilt package archives available for [http://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.html Debian distributions]. However, close attention should be paid when mixing packages of different distributions. For instance, Debian packages installed on a Yocto file system could not work. Even worse, '''they could interfere with existing packages and make these unusable'''.
This Technical Note (TN) describes a way to apply the approach illustrated [https://wiki.dave.eu/index.php/[XELK-AN-003:_Package_Management_with_Yocto Package Management with Yocto|here]] to a Yocto distribution that makes use of Debian packetization. In other words, a local archive of Yocto-generated, prebuilt .deb packages is used in combination with the well known <code>apt-get</code> utility.
==Testbed==
