Downloading the Poky source code

After we install the needed packages into our development host system, we need to get the Poky source code that can be downloaded with Git, using the following command:

$: git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky --branch daisy

Tip

Learn more about Git at http://git-scm.com.

After the download process is complete, we should have the following contents inside the poky directory:

Note

The examples and code presented in this and the next chapters use the Yocto Project Version 1.6 and Poky Version 11.0. The code name is Daisy, as reference.