Add feature: yoctoproject.org (bitbake)

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Adds a new community devcontainer feature yoctoproject.org that installs bitbake — the core build tool of the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded.

Approach

Since the Yocto Project publishes no pre-built binaries, bitbake is installed from the openembedded/bitbake source archive (tagged yocto-X.Y.Z). The script self-patches the lib/ path via __file__ resolution in the Python entry point, so a simple shell wrapper suffices — no PYTHONPATH manipulation needed.

Changes

• src/yoctoproject.org/install.sh — resolves the latest version from GitHub tags (yocto-X.Y.Z), downloads the tarball, extracts to /opt/bitbake/, creates a wrapper at /usr/local/bin/bitbake, ensures python3 is present
• src/yoctoproject.org/devcontainer-feature.json — feature metadata, version 1.0.0, version option defaulting to latest
• src/yoctoproject.org/NOTES.md — project link, description, install method
• test/yoctoproject.org/test.sh — verifies bitbake --version emits BitBake
• README.md — new row inserted alphabetically between yakitrak/notesmd-cli and yq

Usage

// .devcontainer/devcontainer.json
{
  "features": {
    "ghcr.io/devcontainer-community/features/yoctoproject.org:1": {}
  }
}

Works on both amd64 and arm64 — no architecture-specific binaries involved.

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

• downloads.yoctoproject.org
  • Triggering command: /home/REDACTED/work/_temp/ghcca-node/node/bin/node /home/REDACTED/work/_temp/ghcca-node/node/bin/node --enable-source-maps /home/REDACTED/work/_temp/copilot-developer-action-main/dist/index.js (dns block)

If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:

• Configure Actions setup steps to set up my environment, which run before the firewall is enabled
• Add the appropriate URLs or hosts to the custom allowlist in this repository's Copilot coding agent settings (admins only)

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Add feature yoctoproject.org</issue_title>
<issue_description>https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/</issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes Add feature yoctoproject.org #228

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[sebst]

tests fail

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tests fail

Fixed in commit 1d6343c. The root cause was that bitbake calls locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, ("en_US", "UTF-8")) at startup and exits if the locale isn't available. Minimal debian:latest and ubuntu:latest images don't have locales configured, so the install.sh now installs the locales package and runs locale-gen en_US.UTF-8.

[sebst]

test fails

[Copilot]

test fails

Fixed in commit 4016a40. The issue was that locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 ran silently without generating the locale on Debian 13 (trixie) — when called with an argument, it produced no output and didn't populate the locale archive. The fix uses the standard Debian pattern: echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen && locale-gen, which explicitly registers the locale in /etc/locale.gen before generating it.