yoe-distro VS kas

Thanks, u/baudvine, that should be the common way to go. While skimming through several Github repos - where mainly this solution is used or some type of submodule mechanics like here - I am really wondering how I could miss that. Anyway, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Raspian is from Debian which is a binary distro and Debian is for Server/Desktop systems. Yocto Project/ObenEmbedded are binary distros where you need to build everything from sources and made for constrained embedded systems. So you rather add whatever you need than start for a huge image. You can ask on https://github.com/agherzan/meta-raspberrypi for a bigger image. Also you might want to look at https://github.com/YoeDistro/yoe-distro But I don't see a huge image there as well.

You can also use KAS for versioning (https://github.com/siemens/kas). It's a pretty neat solution, that also provides a docker-build container. The basic principle is that you store your layers with commit hashes and local.conf files in a single .yaml format

I often work with the Yocto Project to build custom Linux distributions for a various range of products. One of the main struggles you can have while working with this tool is managing multiple git repositories in order to produce a successful build. A new tool called kas tries to simplify this process; let's see how by building a distribution for a Pine64 board.