Technical FAQ: Revision history

23 December 2023

• curprev 20:3120:31, 23 December 2023‎ Simonew talk contribs‎ 49,856 bytes 0‎ Fix syntax
• curprev 20:3020:30, 23 December 2023‎ Simonew talk contribs‎ m 49,856 bytes 0‎ Fix syntax
• curprev 20:3020:30, 23 December 2023‎ Simonew talk contribs‎ m 49,856 bytes 0‎ Fix syntax

9 July 2020

• curprev 21:0121:01, 9 July 2020‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 49,856 bytes +709‎ Add why not root question

1 July 2020

• curprev 01:3001:30, 1 July 2020‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 49,147 bytes +40‎ Consistency: use <recipename> instead of recipename
• curprev 01:2501:25, 1 July 2020‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 49,107 bytes +37‎ →‎I'm getting warnings that a recipe is tainted - what does this mean?
• curprev 01:2401:24, 1 July 2020‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 49,070 bytes +11‎ →‎I'm fetching from a git repository over ssh / http / https but it's not fetching properly, how do I fix this?
• curprev 01:2201:22, 1 July 2020‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 49,059 bytes +28‎ →‎X11 and various other items are being built but I'm only building core-image-minimal - why?
• curprev 01:1601:16, 1 July 2020‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 49,031 bytes +23‎ →‎Can I disable shared state?
• curprev 01:1501:15, 1 July 2020‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 49,008 bytes +72‎ →‎Can I disable shared state?
• curprev 01:1101:11, 1 July 2020‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 48,936 bytes −6‎ →‎How do I allow a variable's value through from the external environment?

27 March 2020

• curprev 04:1404:14, 27 March 2020‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 48,942 bytes +966‎ Add taskhash mismatch

1 October 2019

• curprev 04:0004:00, 1 October 2019‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,976 bytes +57‎ →‎How do I control what's in the final image?
• curprev 03:5603:56, 1 October 2019‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,919 bytes +52‎ →‎How do I find out which package contains a particular file (or python module)?
• curprev 03:5503:55, 1 October 2019‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,867 bytes +2‎ →‎How do I remove a value from a list variable?
• curprev 03:5503:55, 1 October 2019‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,865 bytes +32‎ →‎How do I remove a value from a list variable?
• curprev 03:5403:54, 1 October 2019‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,833 bytes +26‎ →‎X11 and various other items are being built but I'm only building core-image-minimal - why?
• curprev 03:5403:54, 1 October 2019‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,807 bytes +218‎ →‎X11 and various other items are being built but I'm only building core-image-minimal - why?: touch up a bit
• curprev 03:5103:51, 1 October 2019‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,589 bytes +97‎ →‎How do I avoid the kernel itself being pulled into my image when installing kernel modules?: update for KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME
• curprev 03:4403:44, 1 October 2019‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 47,492 bytes +60‎ Mention devtool finish

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?