bspctl: the wrapper Yocto teams keep writing by hand
TL;DR: bspctl is a Python CLI that wraps kas and kas-container for Yocto Board Support Package (BSP) builds. It defaults to container builds via kas-container when KAS_CONTAINER_IMAGE is set, and falls back to plain kas on the host when it is not. Pass --host to any subcommand to force host mode. On top of kas, bspctl adds pre-flight environment checks before the build starts, applies a curated tuning overlay (ccache, fetch mirrors, reproducibility knobs) without modifying your YAML on disk, writes structured per-run logs, and provides bspctl triage to locate the failing recipe after a crash. For vendor BSPs that ship as repo manifests (NXP i.MX) or oe-layertool configs (TI Sitara), it translates those to kas YAMLs automatically. Install: uv tool install bspctl. ...