This way we put a timestamp on the image, so that someone looking at the
image on an old release tarball has a representation of the release "as
of <date>".
Here set "Oct. 24" as it was the last time the file was updated.
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
(From yocto-docs rev: 108b53abd96fa7fd82107de07a46ae77a6f9269f)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7b62bbec900bc84a31e4686839e774ba7bd5ae9f)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Mention that Scarthgap the latest LTS in a bullet list next to
Kirkstone. Reword the parapraph a bit to make it clearer after this
change.
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@rootcommit.com>
(From yocto-docs rev: 23c4ca4fdfffb7793cf4ffaea365e042e1a25325)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit afeded9939777d88bf4cb9ebf7a61aadd476642d)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
* Add Walnascar release.
* Remove dunfell, gatesgarth, hardknott, honister: these release are not
supported anymore. Start from kirkstone, which is still supported.
(From yocto-docs rev: 1955aa1052d16a05cc7d493d5e7c0fe113141812)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit aa9a580c8c57af4baa4fb24a43487fb7afc258e5)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Document `hosttools/`, `pkgdata/` and add some more information on
`work-shared/`.
Adresses [YOCTO #14543].
Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
(From yocto-docs rev: 259fce03ffab9fb588676c1e150d999d54cf6d85)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 372b5b4ca55819c294970b20aa8b8d8167144329)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
This variable can be used to specify one or more compiled device tree or
device tree overlays to use in addition to the one compiled by the
kernel.
(From yocto-docs rev: 708514ea676246ddf251ad47c95442e8ec5c0e1f)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6566ffceab3780dc5ecbfe26f786ebe6ff17e693)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Variables that can be used for toggling creation of manifest and
specifying the path to the output in the deploy directory.
(From yocto-docs rev: fb462c47bb15522cc02642fe51f39c8e15044957)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 14131a42a7ea8bbae2165c1b8dbcabd5f28b2b22)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
1. Changed one letter (s/B/A), so the sentence is correct again.
2. Moved example from SYSROOT_DIRS_IGNORE into SYSROOT_DIRS section.
(From yocto-docs rev: 9fcd6d6ef4a87f69b8a00907051c1ece41e75a82)
Signed-off-by: Matthias Pritschet <matthias@pritschet.eu>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
- Make Scarthgap a current release
- Add Styhead
(From yocto-docs rev: 78b8d5b18274a41ffec43ca4e136abc717585f6d)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
As reported by "make sphinx-lint"
Tabs are even removed in Makefile examples,
as Sphinx turns them to spaces anyway in the generated output.
(From yocto-docs rev: fd1423141e7458ba557db465c171b0b4e9063987)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
There's a new yocto-patches mailing list available for all layers that
do not have their own mailing list.
c.f. https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/topic/105197684
Cc: Quentin Schulz <foss+yocto@0leil.net>
(From yocto-docs rev: d7fc3e978440d9f5724cbce85de000317a3e0783)
Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
The documentation of the variable SPDX_NAMESPACE_PREFIX does not exist.
This variable is used to change the prefix of some links in SPDX docs.
(From yocto-docs rev: 0055b7ea1cdf72359695e08fe6d2ca9a405fba51)
Signed-off-by: BELOUARGA Mohamed <m.belouarga@technologyandstrategy.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Instead of "manpage(s)" or "man page(s)".
To address one of the errors reported by "make stylecheck"
(From yocto-docs rev: f6e69f8877d1d33200993f21b448e7fa3cf7859b)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Document the convention to use variables prefixed by VIRTUAL_RUNTIME.
Add references to the new term where possible.
Another reason is that such variables are recommended
in a warning issued by meta/classes-global/insane.bbclass
(From yocto-docs rev: db88c2021062c95fe49b54351952753390d45a6a)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Reported-by: Tim Orling <ticotimo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Fix some hyphens being improperly used as em dashes.
See https://www.grammarly.com/blog/hyphens-and-dashes/
Using em dashes may also allow Sphinx to hyphenate
and break lines in the best way.
Note that the first character after an em dash not
supposed to be capitalized, unless a specific
rule applies, typically when what follows is a proper noun.
Fix a few misuses of parentheses in following text.
(From yocto-docs rev: a0d93ea1ddfdfbcde8dac3aa328307be778f9e3c)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Add missing documentation on how to add multiple groups with a single
GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN}
(From yocto-docs rev: 46f82dcb3b4042491efd44b9c15a06e3c910ec85)
Signed-off-by: Geoff Parker <geoffrey.parker@arthrex.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
The SDKPATH variable seems mistakenly identified as the
default path where the SDK will be installed by the generated
installation script, unless option '-d' or a manual input
overrides this default.
The intended variable is SDKPATHINSTALL. SDKPATH indicates
where the SDK is being composed and built.
The definitions have been added/updated.
(From yocto-docs rev: f7ce2abbdcff625356b337137e91f642ff6a4dc2)
Signed-off-by: Johan Bezem <jbezem.extern@arri.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
do_cleansstat can produce build errors when using a shared sstate cache.
Add a note to clearly discourage, provide a safe alternative (bitbake -f),
and the rationale.
Suggested-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/yocto-docs/20240219155513.76738-1-luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com/T/#m5529687ecb0f9ec2dacddcb6ff58e2df73af9cde
(From yocto-docs rev: 3fb8b5ad7edfa186744396deb7111ba3e31a857b)
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
do_cleanall can produce failures when used in legitimate cases, such as
with recipe variants (foo and foo-native) or a shared DL_DIR. This is why
it is forbidden when writing tests that will run on the autobuilders
(https://docs.yoctoproject.org/test-manual/intro.html?highlight=cleanall#considerations-when-writing-tests).
Reword the documentation to clearly discourage, provide a safe alternative
(bitbake -f -c fetch), and the rationale with an example.
Reported-by: Sam Liddicott
Link: https://bootlin.com/blog/yocto-sharing-the-sstate-cache-and-download-directories/#comment-2650335
(From yocto-docs rev: 92e1d1fba336de12637b75b043b86485b80324a2)
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
To align this document with the version in the master branch
(From yocto-docs rev: 08ce7db2aa3a38deb8f5aa59bafc78542986babb)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
- "git" is now required to run "set_versions.py"
- Fix Ubuntu / Debian packages.
The previous instructions didn't run on Debian 12
Tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian 12.
Reported on https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/4789
(From yocto-docs rev: f2a4799fa1cb6ea406d97e1b47ce888e7f5dd264)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Reported-by: <mhagans@skyviewsat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
- This allows to continue sharing the updated Ubuntu/Debian requirements
with the brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst without indentation mismatches
(caused by using the same macro in two different contexts: in direct
text and in a bullet list).
- Update poky.yaml.in to adapt the number of spaces at the beginning
of lines.
- brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst: fix bad number of spaces
before quote block.
(From yocto-docs rev: 488731c09bf63fadc02ddcdd94fb3374dafce528)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
- Use the Wikipedia naming scheme: WSL 2 instead of WSLv2
- Take into account Windows Server 2019 and 2022 which are
supported too.
- Improve some explanations
(From yocto-docs rev: e64c1154c358128d76b1b8e3a5809dbaa8dc6881)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <foss@0leil.net>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Also minor correction to supported distribution notes
(From yocto-docs rev: cb417cef74b87b53300eb05c21675b5e24a10ca7)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Suggested-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
To align with the "master" branch
(From yocto-docs rev: aaeb061fa8ff73496175eba59f53a19fdcf08f64)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Also fix number of corresponding paragraphs
(From yocto-docs rev: 28ee2d91fe4dd0549940dc5df1ff1d59363fcc0f)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
PENDING ON THIS OE-CORE PATCH:
install-buildtools: support buildtools-make-tarball and update to 4.1
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/171522
Cover the use case and the new provided tarball.
(From yocto-docs rev: 824c075c31650b9b466ac54fdf926043927b7045)
Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Measured by generating a "core-image-sato" image for a "qemux86-64"
machine from an Ubuntu 22.04 VM with 4 cores.
Less memory was not enough and caused Out of Memory failures.
(From yocto-docs rev: 5009d3898a1649074d1fc252ed33ecbf3235ed75)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Tests made on Poky master on March 16, 2023.
Add a "Free Disk Space" section to the "System Requirements" document.
(From yocto-docs rev: 6e88a53c47f15376c4eec8b34d14239dcf285da3)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
To simplify the style, replace "Following is" and "Following are"
by "here is" and "here are", sounding more natural.
In some cases, also go further by simplifying "Here are/is xxx"
by "xxx are/is" when the "are" or "is" are not two far at
the end of the sentence.
In some cases too, completely remove the sentence, when
it's redundant with the preceding title.
(From yocto-docs rev: 2539f1b9cbf9bdd40eff93c6522dc76133debed7)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
CC: Daniel Ammann <daniel.ammann@bytesatwork.ch>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
UBOOT_CONFIG accepts a third parameter for the UBOOT_BINARY that isn't
documented. To show its usage another example from the meta-freescale layer
was picked.
(From yocto-docs rev: aba67b58711019a6ba439b2b77337f813ed799ac)
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg.sommer@navimatix.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
The VSCode extension is now officially maintained and published by the
Yocto Project so it should be referenced in the manuals to help users
discover it.
I located the most relevant places to reference the extension by looking
at how the old Eclipse plugin was documented in the 2.6 manuals as well
as the current Toaster references.
(From yocto-docs rev: 21ec0d3b52069dfc85ff47fb4f913a26a092c480)
Signed-off-by: Enguerrand de Ribaucourt <enguerrand.de-ribaucourt@savoirfairelinux.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
insserv.bbclass was removed from oe-core:
commit e6bb5dbb62
Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Sun May 10 12:30:49 2015 +0100
insserv: Remove
(From yocto-docs rev: eddb6c4e36e298218c23bf688cb1c9c06f32b0d6)
Signed-off-by: Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
According to currently active workers
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/workers
and to the "workers_prev_releases" definition
in https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-autobuilder2/tree/config.py
Also correct the text saying that SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS
lists currently tested distros.
Also replace AlmaLinux 8.8 and 9.2 by just AlmaLinux 8 and 9,
as we update our workers anyway.
(From yocto-docs rev: 79a6ec6847cdfc40d75def36993a40fec853a7a1)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
- nanbield is now released
- update the start and end dates
(From yocto-docs rev: 51f26829e89674c55471a6a077e5f49a97db84c3)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
After the following meta-yocto commits, MIRRORS & PREMIRRORS are no
longer set in the poky distro config file:
67b79df4fbff ("poky.conf: remove redundant MIRRORS")
1b71a3b9418f ("poky: Drop PREMIRRORS entries for scms")
(From yocto-docs rev: c7882126a75e8814764379d40bf56f39da5d3c19)
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Synchronizing with master whenever possible,
to make the branch easier to maintain.
(From yocto-docs rev: 825b1292ab08770b2d8cfdc1e11358a2790c1a1b)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Update for changes in nanbield. Note that I am documenting what is set
by poky.conf here (since this is Yocto Project documentation), which is
slightly different from what is done in meta/conf/bitbake.conf.
(From yocto-docs rev: 4273dc298aba67fe07f19b52e5f8fa1d183d054c)
Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning@bluelightning.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
