Release 1.2 Changes

Note: this is a work-in-progress list of changes for the 1.2 changelog; please don't use it as a reference. This page should be removed once the final release notes have been generated.

1.2 changes

Note: currently does not include most fixes with an associated bug number nor most package upgrades

• python: Fix various contamination issues leading to broken/missing c modules
• bitbake.conf: Add a STAGING_BASELIBDIR variable that recipes can use to find base_libdir
• initramfs-live-boot: Disable unionfs until its issue with the system rootdir are resolved
• qemugl: make postinst run at first boot
• linux-yocto: accept .diff as a valid patch extension
• matchbox-wm-2: Fix incorrect update-alternatives
• lrzsz: fix sz, sx and sb alternative links
• sanity.bbclass: If the sanity tests fail, don't mark them as complete
• avahi-daemon: fix missing init script links
• external-poky-toolchain: remove
• rpm: Ensure that we check both providename and filepaths for missing dependencies
• package_rpm: Fix useradd preinst ordering issues
• package_rpm.bbclass: Set tmppath for rpm to somewhere which won't conflict with the rootfs
• tclibc-eglibc.inc: make locale packages dependency conditional
• python: Fix host contamination issue
• u-boot: add machine name to spl image name
• linux-firmware: keep version string in libertas firmware
• Tidy up CPU tunings to be consistent and match documentation
• conf/machine/include/README: Add readme to explain CPU tunings
• package_{deb,ipk,rpm}: apply umask to files generated in do_package_write_{deb,ipk,rpm} to avoid contamination from host umask
• binutils: Inform binutils that armv5e really is valid
• elfutils: disable lzma (and bzip2 for native)
• gdb: build with expat, add missing RRECOMMENDS_gdbserver
• genext2fs: support large files and filesystems without using large amounts of memory
• Added sstate-cache-management.sh script for manually clearing out old shared state packages
• Remove armv7 tune in favour of armv7-a, armv7-m and armv7-r
• python: fix packaging dependencies on minimal systems
• scons.bbclass: add EXTRA_OESCONS
• busybox: move watch to /usr/bin for compatibility with procps
• INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE: support for mapped licenses
• Add support for per-package LICENSE
• update-modules: update script to read /etc/modules-load.d/ directory
• procps: use update-alternatives for pwdx, pgrep and watch
• sysvinit: use update-alternatives for mountpoint and runlevel
• cleanup-workdir: add a script to clean up WORKDIR
• alsa-utils: move ${datadir}/init files to alsactl package.
• Use pigz instead of gzip for compressing rootfs
• package.bbclass: sort dynamically generated packages
• Rename postinstall init script from configure to run-postinsts
• image.bbclass: ensure package management tools are available for rootfs construction
• cmake.bbclass: add ${base_libdir} to CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH
• package.bbclass: Drop python depends from rpmdeps
• rpm: Add rpmdeps-oecore to replace rpmdeps for improved packaging performance
• bzip2: split into binary and library packages
• xz: split out liblzma as separate packages
• valgrind: Support compilation without X11
• Add IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT to control alignment of rootfs size
• libsdl: add DirectFB support
• Add soc-family.inc to be included in machine.conf to add SOC_FAMILY to MACHINEOVERRIDE
• initscripts: Create the volatiles cache atomically
• initscripts: Properly format date when set from timestamp
• externalsrc.bbclass: Add class for handling external source trees
• busybox: Enable 64 bit shell tests
• Quotes (either single or double) are now required around variable values
• image_types: Refactor compression code into a generic compression solution
• tune-ppce5500: consolidate ppce5500 and ppc64e5500 into one tune file
• qt4: build qmake for the target and package as part of the tools package
• Add variable BB_HASHCONFIG_WHITELIST for excluding variables from hash calculation
• automake: omit compilation of pyc files on install
• Add optional disk space monitoring during build (BB_DISKMON_DIRS, BB_DISKMON_WARNINTERVAL)
• gdb-cross-canadian: build gdb with python support
• Add SIGGEN_EXCLUDERECIPES_ABISAFE variable to exclude dependencies from hash calculation
• bitbake.conf: remove TARGET_ARCH from in SDKPATH
• Add SDK_NAME_PREFIX so that distributions can overwrite only this instead of whole SDK_NAME
• bitbake/cooker: terminate when errors found in layer configuration
• initscripts: mount and unmount cifs network filesystems
• qemu: remove version 0.14.0 in favour of 0.15.1
• Add DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL to allow introducing new DISTRO_FEATURES items without affecting existing distro configurations
• openssl: Move libcrypto to base_libdir
• base.bbclass: check all entries of FILESPATH for MACHINE overrides when updating PACKAGE_ARCH
• Switch to OEBasicHash signature generator
• POKY_EXTRA_INSTALL variable renamed to CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL
• Number of fixes to external-csl-toolchain
• Split task-core-tools into task-core-tools-debug, task-core-tools-profile, task-core-tools-testapps
• udev-cache no longer used by udev by default
• openssl 0.9.8 removed in favour of 1.0.0
• Many fixes to allow dash (the default shell on Ubuntu) to be used instead of bash
• Several fixes for future gcc 4.7 compatibility
• Many fixes for x32 compatibility
• Several fixes for building with x11 removed from DISTRO_FEATURES
• Introduce DEFAULT_TIMEZONE variable ('Universal', present in base package) for tzdata
• COMMERCIAL_LICENSE replaced with LICENSE_FLAGS
• Fix console and ethernet for qemuppc machine
• Allow resuming interrupted fetches
• busybox: change syslog default to log to /var/log/messages
• Add support for filenames with spaces in RPM packaging
• Implement alsa-state to handle default audio volume instead of specialised scripts such as beagleboard-audio
• shadow: Split securetty into a separate recipe
• ghostscript: build cups filters
• bitbake: respect BBINCLUDELOGS in the default terminal UI
• bitbake: avoid printing full task log when error already printed
• bitbake-layers: flatten: warn the user if output structure is incorrect
• kexec-tools: split packaging of kexec and kdump
• autotools.bbclass: Introduce CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS
• bitbake: add a new option "--server-only"
• base-files: filesystems: fix mount order and add ext4
• qt4-graphics-system: add to allow setting graphics system for Qt4 applications per machine.
• distro: Add poky-tiny distro definition
• libusb-compat: move libraries to base_libdir
• udev: split utilities onto udev-utils
• libusb1: move libraries to base_libdir
• e2fsprogs: move libraries to base_libdir
• util-linux: move libraries to base_libdir
• libcap: move library to base_libdir
• ncurses: move libraries to base_libdir
• qt4: add version 4.8.0 and update 4.7.x to 4.7.4
• image_types: Ensure /init exists for cpio rootfs archives
• task-core-boot: Allow DISTRO to disable keymaps via VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_keymaps
• linux-yocto-tiny: New kernel recipe for tiny distros
• udev: drop 145 version
• classes/image: implement generic locale package installation via IMAGE_LINGUAS
• image-types: add btrfs as a supported fstype
• ltp: add
• ncurses: Allow override of ENABLE_WIDEC
• libsdl 1.2.14: fix package naming and -dev package contents
• eglibc: Fixes for running regression tests
• gcc-cross: Add cross testing driver for running regression testsuites
• Add INITRAMFS_FSTYPES to control intramfs image types
• qt4: Add uic, moc, rcc, and lrelease to tools package.
• gtk: enable directfb backend conditionally upon directfb in DISTRO_FEATURES
• initramfs-framework: provides a modular initramfs
• image_types.bbclass: disable cleanmarkers for jffs2 images
• image_types.bbclass: implement jffs2 summary images (sum.jffs2)
• rootfs_ipk: implement FEED_DEPLOYDIR_BASE_URI support
• Set BB_STRICT_CHECKSUM so that SRC_URI checksums are now mandatory
• gmp: also generate the libgmpcxx library & package it properly
• coreutils: fix u-a for base64, mktemp and df
• shadow: use u-a for /usr/bin/group
• bootimg: Add grub-efi support
• grub-efi-native: New recipe to build GRUB EFI images
• mingetty: use u-a to provide /sbin/getty (also provided by util-linux-agetty and tinylogin)
• libsdl: enable alsa based on PACKAGECONFIG and respect DISTRO_FEATURES
• Introduce multiarch DISTRO_FEATURE
• gcc-package-target.inc: add the symbol link /lib/cpp
• time: use u-a for time to avoid conflict with busybox
• kbd: use u-a for chvt, deallocvt, fgconssole, openvt to avoid conflicts with busybox
• util-linux: use u-a for flock and blockdev, conflicts with busybox
• util-linux: add missing u-a calls for setsid chrt
• task-core-x11: use VIRTUAL-RUNTIME variables for xserver_common and graphical_init_manager
• keymaps: depend on kbd instead of console-tools
• kbd: import from meta-oe (RREPLACES/RCONFLICTS/RPROVIDES for upgradeable path from console-tools)
• task-core-boot, keymaps: add another VIRTUAL-RUNTIME to allow distributions to use different set of initscripts or no initscripts at all
• Introduce new SERIAL_CONSOLES to add multiple consoles for your MACHINE
• Ensure only one copy of bitbake executes at once against a given build dir
• gconf: add upstream GNOME gconf 3.2.3 and drop gconf-dbus
• classes/[gnome|gnomebase|mime]: enhance gnome related classes
• shared-mime-info: package runtime data separately
• python: skip setup.py 'import check' when cross-compiling
• dhcp: move server configuration to dhcp-server-config
• connman: split scripts into separate package
• python: improve packaging (see 8138eafa31fdd648a5a8f766cf6f6a26e1549dcd)
• machine/atom-pc: enable sound
• udev: Split out consolekit and udev-acl
• documentation-audit.sh: script for auditing documentation build status
• e2fsprogs: move mke2fs.conf to e2fsprogs-mke2fs package
• gst-plugins-good: correctly handle gconf schema
• texi2html: Added recipe from OE
• squashfs-tools: add recipe
• bootimg.bbclass: add support to disable HDD image building
• pulseaudio: make bluetooth support conditional upon DISTRO_FEATURES
• qt4: add QtMobility 1.2
• mesa-dri: Enable swrast only by default and intel drivers only on IA platform
• arch-ia32: Add a generic x86 override (instead of i{3|4|5|6}86 and so on)
• nfs-utils: separate nfs-utils-client and nfs-utils-stats
• image-live.bbclass: allow override of initrd image using INITRD_IMAGE
• initramfs-live-boot: make it more generic and easy to use
• Add python-setuptools
• hal/hal-info: drop as unused
• gnome-vfs: drop as unused
• python-argparse: add
• xserver-xorg-common: improve packaging
• xserver-xf86(-dri)-lite: rename to xserver-xorg and xserver-xorg-lite
• image.bbclass: disable tasks other than do_rootfs
• base.bbclass: Implement PACKAGECONFIG
• image-live.bbclass: allow images to override ROOTFS and INITRD
• qt4.inc: package qtdemo's docs in a separate package
• bitbake.conf: Start using parallel make for do_install
• Promote most QA warning classes into errors by default
• Add new variable LINKER_HASH_STYLE
• bluez4: split gstreamer plugin into a seperate recipe

Fixes already in 1.1.1

• gcc-4.6: fix toolchain build for SH4
• base-passwd: Move update-passwd into a separate package
• opkg: Ensure we use the uname/gname fields when extracting tarballs
• util-linux: split mcookie into a package
• util-linux: split out mkfs into its own package
• util-linux: add new util-linux-chkdupexe package to avoid making perl a dependecy for all of util-linux
• util-linux 2.19.1: split blkid out into its own subpackage
• util-linux: split fsck* into its own subpackage
• shadow: Generate the shadow files at rootfs construction
• udev-extraconf: blacklist /dev/md so that udev does not mount it by default
• coreutils: give coreutils a chance to build the df utility
• Allow user mode NFS server to run without rpcbind / portmap
• scripts/oe-buildenv-internal: Add SOCKS5_{USER, PASSWD} to BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE
• qt4: Fix translation support
• qt4: fix generated sdk
• fetch2/local: Don't default to files in DL_DIR for file:// urls
• fetch2: handle paths with no trailing '/' in *MIRRORS