Add a basic variable definition and a small section to the development
tasks manual for using PACKAGE_ADD_METADATA to add custom metadata to
packages.
(From yocto-docs rev: c5e4d575a771ddd1c970389ce3ace6d6abe68769)
Signed-off-by: Michael Ho <Michael.Ho@bmw.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
As these comments have been around since 2015 and apparently unused,
get rid of hundreds of them.
(From yocto-docs rev: afec5770a22ac51c956e87567bf39e71064e9f04)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This was, years ago, deprecated in favour of FEATURE_PACKAGES, so
remove all references, other than the entry in the migration section.
(From yocto-docs rev: 8e5469aadd31bc3de181848aae5733cd7835eefb)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(From yocto-docs rev: d694ff63f4aee0fff6eac0541413c1a36b3b02e2)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Update list of legal IMAGE_TYPES to match what's in
image_types.bbclass.
(From yocto-docs rev: 7706a240d6dbbace9a76b4b55427f91bd4afc6da)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Update the glossary entry for PACKAGECONFIG in two ways:
1) Explain the recent sixth argument, which identifies conflicting
features for a given feature.
2) Use a different example, as the librsvg "croco" feature no
longer works that way.
(From yocto-docs rev: af9bf61a54c059e72c807ca8061a57d6fe74c5fa)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Update the example used in explaining the PROVIDES variable to one
that actually exists, and point out that "+=" is unnecessary, a simple
assignment is sufficient.
(From yocto-docs rev: 80cd888ee81757bc5281f174b26974391ee45522)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
As the OEQA code revamp and code changes in testimage.bbclass,
testexport.bbclass, runtime/context.py and oeqa/runexported.py,
"QemuTarget" was obsolete and replaced by "qemu".
Replacing the refer of "QemuTarget" with "qemu".
(From yocto-docs rev: 87691219dfe312c0db0af1fa30cc3505298a27af)
Signed-off-by: Yeoh Ee Peng <ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
As the OEQA code revamp and code changes in testimage.bbclass,
testexport.bbclass, runtime/context.py and oeqa/runexported.py,
"SimpleRemoteTarget" was obsolete and replaced by "simpleremote".
Replacing the refer of "SimpleRemoteTarget" by "simpleremote".
(From yocto-docs rev: 1779a6d699ae7a6e51f8b92516eea948c1767400)
Signed-off-by: Yeoh Ee Peng <ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
It is sometimes more appropriate to define the licenses that are
allowed to be used rather than the ones that are not permitted. This
adds a tips on how this can be achieved by using AVAILABLE_LICENSES
and some Python set arithmetics.
(From yocto-docs rev: dd26d8a9f89402a9828bf02f2e65054d4c0f406f)
Signed-off-by: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* Update USERADD_ERROR_DYNAMIC[doc] and the first paragraph to match
the definition in meta/conf/documentation.conf.
* Add a note explaining the differences in behavior when setting
USERADD_ERROR_DYNAMIC to "warn" and "error" respectively.
[YOCTO #12932]
(From yocto-docs rev: 28cd546f3fe1eadd73ba71f9fe9a558538e69b0f)
Signed-off-by: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Alejandro Enedino Hernandez Samaniego <aehs29@gmail.com>
commited a change to these manuals (see
9e79e96cad66316c1b4ee608723edfa763f0f9ef) and did not
use YP documentation standards for the content. I cleaned
up the text and tabbing.
(From yocto-docs rev: 9c95799322e1830a5faae0980384ab10b6504007)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
The syntax to use multiconfig builds changed from multiconfig:foo:target
to mc:foo:target.
Clarify that BBMULTICONFIG defines additional configurations along with
the one coming from local.conf.
Fix these changes on both the dev manual and the reference manual.
(From yocto-docs rev: 9e79e96cad66316c1b4ee608723edfa763f0f9ef)
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Enedino Hernandez Samaniego <aehs29@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Corrected the requirements for the KERNEL_DEVCIETREE
variable example.
(From yocto-docs rev: 0502910c81f4d669457155ed5f52d5fa775d8d6d)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
We are not using Python2. I removed this instance in the ref
manual. The variable "PYTHON_PN" referenced Python 2. It no
longer does.
(From yocto-docs rev: bd2ed0c640e12e8010ebff0aaba77e8fe367d63e)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
There was a typo in the BBMULTICONFIG variable description.
It appeared as "BBMULTIFONFIG". I fixed it.
(From yocto-docs rev: c53b1bb6e588f9ee87cb8ab85fc8c3985257a37a)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Ousted these since it was noted in the migration section that
the class had been removed. Modified all references to the
removed class as needed.
(From yocto-docs rev: 7000acc76da6b7ee850b799347ab9083663c7e6a)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
I changed the PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto example to use
the 5.0 linux-yocto kernel rather than the 4.12 version.
(From yocto-docs rev: 334554dd87f5372066d55246384ed5205aaf1f86)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Updated the description to tell the user they can safely
clean up the DL_DIR after creating tarballs of the source
files from downloaded repos.
(From yocto-docs rev: 6aff69632ea3102b6389ea510e1e3fa5bf1c2123)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
The update fixes a copy-paste-and-forget-to-update-everything error
in the documentation of the `SRC_URI` entry in the Reference Manual.
The `maxdate` paragraph just repeated what is there for the
neighboring `mindate` paragraph which was incorrect.
(From yocto-docs rev: bbeb096222d42a31adcb358a85f8fe6c4120416a)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Took this out of the glossary. After eglibc was merged
into glibc, Kconfig support was also dropped so
these libc features therefore are not effective anymore
and can be removed.
(From yocto-docs rev: cfdd02864f004fc48b0353ec0f007ca24b06d29e)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes [YOCTO #13112]
Added a reference in the FILESOVERRIDES variable description
to the FILESPATH description to see an example of how automatic
overrides work.
(From yocto-docs rev: e78fc3468de3d9b9935f0e4f4aa4117b6805e631)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes [YOCTO #13112]
Did some paragraph re-ordering based on reviewer feedback.
Also, added a bit in the FILESOVERRIDES variable description
about out it uses overrides to help with automatic overriding
of the FILESPATH variable. Added some better links into the
BitBake User Manual as well.
(From yocto-docs rev: 6ad5c6f030501cda9bc8ea648d9d7c0e991f55cf)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
No indentation was being used for the example.
(From yocto-docs rev: e5d13181546d19772fede972b20518103d897eaa)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
The new default is "debug-with-srcpkg"
(From yocto-docs rev: b427e7c2d9f6efca7e0867cc8e508d4e941c5a09)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Updated the definition to match that of poky.conf.
(From yocto-docs rev: 09c73c227c6949ed3f1287ce063aa96967ed2fda)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes [YOCTO #13112]
Fixes [YOCTO #13115]
* FILESPATH: Added a detailed example of how to use the variable
to set machine-specific configurations. Also, noted the default
behavior of using FILESOVERRIDES to automatically extend
FILESPATH. Did some rewriting as well.
* IMAGE_FSTYPES: Updated the note to not be exclusive to "live"
images. The behavior applies to many images.
(From yocto-docs rev: 46e3f2545c45ba5391603f9ffa1c87896d472df6)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
I cleaned up the terminology used for the CMake build system.
I provided some meaningful links to a good overview page for CMake.
I also built in some cross-referencing as needed.
(From yocto-docs rev: 7c38add39b97a7a8786a1be53f9ff549e4727fad)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
The KERNEL_ARTIFACT_NAME variable is used throughout to set the names
of build artifacts. Rather than repeat informaiton about
KERNEL_ARTIFACT_NAME in the many variables that use it, I added
a new entry for the variable. This also impacted the descriptions
of the variables that were repeating information. I updated those
variable descriptions as well.
(From yocto-docs rev: 5750d30be21e17fe21d89254925dc0e773c08e66)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
I changed the wording "post 2.6" to state "2.6 and
forward". It was incorrect as the changes are inclusive
of YP release 2.6.
(From yocto-docs rev: fb3f3db17ea416cd829a291df3933cc3597392b8)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
The KERNEL_IMAGE_NAME variable is new and is effectively
a renamed KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME variable now. I provided a
new glossary description for the new variable. I updated the
existing KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME description to note it has
changed. We can't just delete the old variable as there are
migration notes for previous releases of YP.
(From yocto-docs rev: e5a38711342f88ded4368521a70e9d117b6d991c)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
The TEST_IMAGE variable went away and was replaced with the
TESTIMAGE_AUTO variable. Fixed all related/affected areas.
(From yocto-docs rev: 660da40b4fcdc05666e1877037fa63eb1dfe7227)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes [YOCTO #12390]
Updated three variables: BB_ALLOWED_NETWORKS, BBMASK, and BBFILES.
Fixed some linking to be sure to use Python3 links instead of
Python 2. Fixed a note to clarify use of the "*" wildcard
restrictions in the BB_ALLOWED_NETWORKS variable.
(From yocto-docs rev: 6f880d10d0830d80cc2d4d1d5b7ea141dad6d4af)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
