From patchwork Tue Jan 27 08:19:31 2026 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Antonin Godard X-Patchwork-Id: 79802 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48011CA6CB9 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout-02.galae.net (smtpout-02.galae.net [185.246.84.56]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.msgproc01-g2.5818.1769501988723403745 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:19:49 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@bootlin.com header.s=dkim header.b=Ht6dkPOz; spf=pass (domain: bootlin.com, ip: 185.246.84.56, mailfrom: antonin.godard@bootlin.com) Received: from smtpout-01.galae.net (smtpout-01.galae.net [212.83.139.233]) by smtpout-02.galae.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 429DF1A2A69 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.galae.net (mail.galae.net [212.83.136.155]) by smtpout-01.galae.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13B2C606F5; Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Mailerdaemon) with ESMTPSA id ECCB0119A8684; Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:19:45 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=dkim; t=1769501986; h=from:subject:date:message-id:to:cc:mime-version:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:references; bh=5lWGedgMp6d5SJVOVQvGB3V6zoCnioUJVv95zER9pBU=; b=Ht6dkPOzVG1SJUp9GaYllYSyaC5LJ13crSlBhCaPbf+mBaEpiHAZDa9kuwd/fDpyU5ABBN psDnHv+ZAvUmv7AAePZXN5+j/flq2khjyRiM00R1EdtRSQHD+g0xwAgLCItWMAHCB6MtOj 0rS+61He2RK5TBwFdoCivQt6naEV22eX4lX+tXd1he7+kwNCaptV3Aa/op7lhjlFawaAYP tvdHz7sebLsv/K+rKXB8dWzKL5x8N2RkBUKHcR7AjH8A/6wVjFxTJeqwtf+obhctjQX36U 9iuFW8oDoREZRH+y03igU3XzOO9YiwK0QllRxMhaw/bVjmdJMZuxB/yYTz+V5g== From: Antonin Godard Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:19:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2 36/56] dev-manual/custom-distribution.rst: remove obsolete poky repo references MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20260127-remove-poky-references-v2-36-74bf80cc4e5a@bootlin.com> References: <20260127-remove-poky-references-v2-0-74bf80cc4e5a@bootlin.com> In-Reply-To: <20260127-remove-poky-references-v2-0-74bf80cc4e5a@bootlin.com> To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org Cc: Thomas Petazzoni , Antonin Godard , Quentin Schulz X-Mailer: b4 0.15-dev X-Developer-Signature: v=1; a=openpgp-sha256; l=1191; i=antonin.godard@bootlin.com; h=from:subject:message-id; bh=e2biYZgbv6AVXFPbMCV+AeaAWoHiX/b2fQmc1CcthnU=; b=owEBbQKS/ZANAwAKAdGAQUApo6g2AcsmYgBpeHUDYNSVxUdTqE2M0BCaIWjb/+n+jXe77WggV rMIWZX+NdaJAjMEAAEKAB0WIQSGSHJRiN1AG7mg0//RgEFAKaOoNgUCaXh1AwAKCRDRgEFAKaOo No1ID/4gspN+WcJZ8TdQgHjoqLLO7hx0gGAziV7OPuR+hILVAlMIPFKK/J+cXVG4cYqJ6MieZkt ks2E8FKW5auTs8pImq2b0RxMvYBNT4oizVSvwsp6s4fM+8j1bWdNBIGDKGkecr0XU0Xtgv6FNNG KUBjbh2u236tTA42QXTxewYZiQbcbICzqXqljdZeIkal3IlcU6KeXpUuNzzi3lSTs6bM5vWHjce BPkrN+ehNv0xuDE3PNFRQbKhU+ZC+SFNhiqfifVUsfMRp+bH17+sUsjKQTylscccYNuq4dv8itu YrQPpE0Wr051stP5Mf/P5Oila1FgTayZl1PWie0yNtQWDxhJwyF6sXGzcMozuq7A+3Co7JoCaHD JQMkrSOJhC5MYjw6DZi2Zue7SQuo3pD4yNbv/ATmYw2BKvJUT8c9RJXT7ajfKb32FgGE/WRQela hCpt5hELfrGHgrM7v5J3ged+d5NMbjQ6N87Q1OCxwwZtcc3Pxd2WFSsypz+XZ9WFkSJTKsJj0Gn TXWXXW2UOu/jJ8XzFN1MN/z8NJSAYSdPSmls4IPkYLQqYhbpTfSAWdvTVqbPQ+XW2PT/cJB+4o+ j+0PYathjdXu0q5tEcnyZkwiASzkdnbOu0XTkCb+WCOqllcjgj5eyZ+2bGlqcG3hJBV9kUOWhZD ss3FapyNIyFNj+w== X-Developer-Key: i=antonin.godard@bootlin.com; a=openpgp; fpr=8648725188DD401BB9A0D3FFD180414029A3A836 X-Last-TLS-Session-Version: TLSv1.3 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from 45-33-107-173.ip.linodeusercontent.com [45.33.107.173] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:19:57 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/8697 Refresh the document now that the Poky repository is obsolete. Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard --- documentation/dev-manual/custom-distribution.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/custom-distribution.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/custom-distribution.rst index 55854f00e..4dafd2725 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/custom-distribution.rst +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/custom-distribution.rst @@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ Creating Your Own Distribution ****************************** -When you build an image using the Yocto Project and do not alter any -distribution :term:`Metadata`, you are using the Poky distribution. +When you build an image using the Yocto Project and follow the default setup +showcased in :doc:`/dev-manual/start`, you are using the :term:`Poky` reference +distribution. + Poky is explicitly a *reference* distribution for testing and development purposes. It enables most hardware and software features so that they can be tested, but this also means that from a security