2023-09-14, 17:15–17:40 (Europe/Berlin), Main Hall
BuildStream is a tool for building / integrating software stacks. In a way, it has a similar goal to bitbake / yocto and Android repo, but takes a completely different approach. It can be used to take software from various sources, build it with various buildsystems in a reproducible sandbox, and cache results for speedy rebuilds.
In this talk I give a brief overview of Buildstream, how it is used to build GNOME OS, and the challenges we face in using it. I also go over freedesktop-sdk which is a base runtime that can be used as a base to build your own system.
I also discuss the challenges we encountered with using buildstream with ostree and the steps we're taking to support updating with systemd-sysupdate.
Abderrahim is a software engineer at Codethink. He is also a member of the GNOME release team.
In a previous life, he was a math teacher at the university of Constantine in Algeria.
By day, Valentin works on Ubuntu Core at Canonical. By night, he contributes to Freedesktop SDK and GNOME OS as a member of the GNOME foundation.