Generating Yocto Documents in openSUSE 13.2

If you want to keep up-to-date with the latest Yocto Project documentation, you should be cloning git://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs.

Once cloned, you can build (for example) a PDF version of the Developer's Manual by:

$ pushd documentation
$ make pdf DOC=ref-manual
$ popd

However, for some reason when I try this on my openSUSE 13.2 system I get:

cd dev-manual; ../tools/poky-docbook-to-pdf dev-manual.xml ../template; cd ..
warning: failed to load external entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/template/titlepage.xsl"
cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/template/titlepage.xsl

A quick work-around for this is to (temporarily) uninstall the docbook-xsl-stylesheet package:

#  rpm -e --nodeps docbook-xsl-stylesheets

Once done building the Yocto Project documentation simply re-install the package:

# zypper install docbook-xsl-stylesheets

The Yocto Project: Introducing devtool

Paul Eggleton, and a group of his co-workers at the Intel Open Source Technology Centre, have been working on a new tool to help developers and build engineers work better and more efficiently together. Integrating The Yocto Project into a developer's workflow has traditionally been a source of pain, and has held back some projects from adopting The Yocto Project and its tools.

I have written a quick tutorial on this new tool (called devtool) which you can find here. Enjoy!