The Ångström Distribution

If you are a machine mentor, or want to be one, send you ssh-dsa public key, along with your real name and location to angstrom-distro-coreteam@linuxtogo.org and the coreteam will take care of them. A bounce message is expected, the mailinglist admin will approve your post.

This page will guide you trough the effort of writing a .bb file or recipe in bitbake speak. Let's start with the easy stuff, like the package description, license, etc:

DESCRIPTION = "My first application, a really cool app containing lots of foo and bar"
LICENSE = "GPLv2"
HOMEPAGE = "http://www.host.com/foo/"

The maintainer field needs to have a real name and a working email-address to be usefull, the description and license fields are mandatory, so better check them twice. The next step is to specify what the package needs to build and run, the so called dependencies: