Technical FAQ: Revision history

10 May 2019

• curprev 01:2101:21, 10 May 2019‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,432 bytes +234‎ Add note about IMAGE_CLASSES and KERNEL_CLASSES

12 November 2018

• curprev 21:1521:15, 12 November 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,198 bytes +10‎ →‎Why does OE use pseudo? Why not use fakeroot / fakechroot instead?
• curprev 21:1021:10, 12 November 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,188 bytes +456‎ →‎How do I add a patch to a recipe?
• curprev 21:0621:06, 12 November 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 46,732 bytes +12‎ →‎I set a variable but it doesn't seem to be having an effect, how do I fix this?
• curprev 21:0421:04, 12 November 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 46,720 bytes +86‎ →‎I'm getting warnings that a recipe is tainted - what does this mean?
• curprev 21:0021:00, 12 November 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 46,634 bytes +40‎ →‎I disabled runtime package management and yet it still seems to be building rpm/opkg, why?
• curprev 20:5720:57, 12 November 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 46,594 bytes +77‎ →‎Why is bitbake showing "AUTOINC" in the version for some recipes?
• curprev 20:5220:52, 12 November 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 46,517 bytes +126‎ →‎How do I do an offline build with recipes that have SRCREV = "${AUTOREV}" set?
• curprev 20:4920:49, 12 November 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 46,391 bytes +853‎ Add a section on multiple _append

27 September 2018

• curprev 23:2323:23, 27 September 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 45,538 bytes +257‎ →‎I've created a bbappend for a recipe but what I'm setting there isn't having any effect, how do I fix this?

14 August 2018

• curprev 17:1017:10, 14 August 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 45,281 bytes +1‎ →‎Why do you use pseudo? Why not use fakeroot / fakechroot instead?
• curprev 17:0917:09, 14 August 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 45,280 bytes +1,333‎ →‎Misc

10 August 2018

• curprev 09:0909:09, 10 August 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 43,947 bytes +182‎ →‎How do I add a patch to a recipe?
• curprev 08:5608:56, 10 August 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 43,765 bytes +164‎ →‎How do I collect the source revisions fetched by each recipe?
• curprev 08:5408:54, 10 August 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 43,601 bytes +2,126‎ →‎Misc

18 July 2018

• curprev 14:5014:50, 18 July 2018‎ Ken Bassford talk contribs‎ m 41,475 bytes +634‎ →‎Troubleshooting: added "Working around Firejail"

11 May 2018

• curprev 04:4204:42, 11 May 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 40,841 bytes +11‎ →‎Can I disable shared state?
• curprev 00:0200:02, 11 May 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 40,830 bytes +6‎ →‎When I run bitbake -c devshell it looks like it's running as root! How is that possible?
• curprev 00:0100:01, 11 May 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 40,824 bytes +20‎ →‎How do I change how my recipe is built depending on what image I'm building?

20 March 2018

• curprev 19:4819:48, 20 March 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 40,804 bytes +38‎ →‎Files I installed into /opt or some other path never make it into the sysroot but I need them - how do I fix this?
• curprev 19:4819:48, 20 March 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 40,766 bytes +20‎ →‎Files I installed into /opt or some other path never make it into the sysroot but I need them - how do I fix this?
• curprev 19:4719:47, 20 March 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 40,746 bytes +53‎ →‎Files I installed into /opt or some other path never make it into the sysroot but I need them - how do I fix this?

27 February 2018

• curprev 20:3520:35, 27 February 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 40,693 bytes +171‎ →‎Can I conditionally inherit a class in a recipe?: Explain the example
• curprev 20:3220:32, 27 February 2018‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 40,522 bytes +569‎ →‎Misc

15 November 2017

• curprev 22:2222:22, 15 November 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 39,953 bytes +455‎ →‎I'm required to set LIC_FILES_CHKSUM but the software I'm building doesn't have a license statement, what do I do?
• curprev 22:0022:00, 15 November 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 39,498 bytes +701‎ Add question on full versions of shell commands

26 October 2017

• curprev 02:0602:06, 26 October 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 38,797 bytes +1,311‎ Add question on pseudo

12 October 2017

• curprev 20:4120:41, 12 October 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 37,486 bytes +1,543‎ Add question on oe-pkgdata-util find-path

3 October 2017

• curprev 09:2709:27, 3 October 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 35,943 bytes +77‎ →‎I'm getting warnings that a recipe is tainted - what does this mean?
• curprev 09:0709:07, 3 October 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 35,866 bytes −2‎ →‎How do I enable package management in the final image?
• curprev 02:1502:15, 3 October 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 35,868 bytes +377‎ Add question on "created a recipe, not in image"

22 June 2017

• curprev 08:0608:06, 22 June 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 35,491 bytes +1,106‎ No edit summary

18 April 2017

• curprev 23:3123:31, 18 April 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 34,385 bytes +84‎ No edit summary

5 April 2017

• curprev 19:1019:10, 5 April 2017‎ Leonardo Sandoval talk contribs‎ 34,301 bytes +429‎ →‎Misc

23 March 2017

• curprev 03:2403:24, 23 March 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 33,872 bytes +924‎ →‎Misc: add explanation (borrowed from a post by Richard Purdie with some minor editing)

13 March 2017

• curprev 20:3920:39, 13 March 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ m 32,948 bytes 0‎ No edit summary

6 February 2017

• curprev 23:2123:21, 6 February 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 32,948 bytes +1,158‎ Add question about multiple git repos in one recipe

18 January 2017

• curprev 20:2420:24, 18 January 2017‎ RandyMacLeod talk contribs‎ m 31,790 bytes −1‎ →‎Why is bitbake showing "AUTOINC" in the version for some recipes?
• curprev 02:0802:08, 18 January 2017‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 31,791 bytes +1‎ →‎I have some software which needs to build a binary that it then uses as part of its own build process, how do I make this work?

12 January 2017

• curprev 17:5817:58, 12 January 2017‎ RandyMacLeod talk contribs‎ 31,790 bytes +328‎ New question about building on a GRSec patched kernel.

8 December 2016

• curprev 20:1120:11, 8 December 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 31,462 bytes +231‎ →‎Basics
• curprev 20:0920:09, 8 December 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 31,231 bytes +57‎ →‎I have a local source tree I want to build instead of the upstream source a recipe normally fetches, how do I do that?
• curprev 20:0620:06, 8 December 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 31,174 bytes +100‎ →‎How do I remove a value from a list variable?
• curprev 20:0520:05, 8 December 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 31,074 bytes +173‎ →‎I tried bitbake that I know exists and it told me that nothing PROVIDES this...?
• curprev 20:0420:04, 8 December 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 30,901 bytes +13‎ →‎I set a variable but it doesn't seem to be having an effect, how do I fix this?
• curprev 20:0220:02, 8 December 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 30,888 bytes +96‎ →‎Why is bitbake showing "AUTOINC" in the version for some recipes?
• curprev 20:0120:01, 8 December 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 30,792 bytes +3,347‎ Add info on sysroot

28 November 2016

• curprev 03:2803:28, 28 November 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 27,445 bytes +1,653‎ No edit summary

25 October 2016

• curprev 22:5822:58, 25 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 25,792 bytes +7‎ No edit summary
• curprev 22:5322:53, 25 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 25,785 bytes +122‎ No edit summary