Re: [yocto] (Go) Library for configuring Yocto based boxes?

["Nicolas Jeker" <n.jeker@delisys.ch>]

On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 07:43 +0000, Christofer Dutz wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> I’m very new to the Yocto world.
>  
> We are currently working on migrating away from OpenWRT based edge
> devices towards ones that we now have Yocto builds for.
>  
> All seems to be working nicely on the yocto side.
>  
> Our application uses a baseline configuration in order to connect to
> our cloud service and there it fetches it’s configuration (We’ve got a
> cellular fallback if connectivity doesn’t work at all).
>  
> With OpenWRT there was a tool called UCI which even had a Go wrapper
> which we used to apply the configuration to the box (set IP addresses,
> connect to WiFi neworks, configure the serial ports etc.)
>  
> Is there some equivalent in the Yocto world?
>  

The OpenWRT wiki has a section on porting UCI to different linux
distributions [1], but you can probably skip that completely. Searching
for UCI in the recipe index [2] yields a result from the meta-openwrt
[3] layer. I would start with adding that layer and using the UCI
recipe from there.

[1]: https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/uci#usage_outside_of_openwrt
[2]:
https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/recipes/?q=uci
[3]: https://github.com/kraj/meta-openwrt

> I would like to avoid generating the file content in the /etc directory
> by hand and firing „restart“ commands to the corresponding services, if
> there isn’t a better way.
>  
> Help greatly appreciated :-)
>  
> Chris
>