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?
• 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
• curprev 22:5122:51, 25 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 25,663 bytes +26‎ →‎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 20:4920:49, 25 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 25,637 bytes +129‎ →‎How do I view the .dot files produced by bitbake -g or buildhistory?
• curprev 20:4620:46, 25 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 25,508 bytes 0‎ →‎I'm fetching from a git repository over ssh / http / https but it's not fetching properly, how do I fix this?
• curprev 20:0520:05, 25 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 25,508 bytes +66‎ No edit summary
• curprev 19:4519:45, 25 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ m 25,442 bytes +151‎ Added example messages for the "package not found at do_rootfs" issue

17 October 2016

• curprev 22:1922:19, 17 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 25,291 bytes +45‎ Clarify externalsrc
• curprev 22:1222:12, 17 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 25,246 bytes +864‎ Clarify package failing to install at do_rootfs time
• curprev 22:0022:00, 17 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 24,382 bytes +350‎ Clarify "no license" question

11 October 2016

• curprev 02:1802:18, 11 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 24,032 bytes +31‎ →‎Why are all of these -native items being built when my host distro has some of these available?

4 October 2016

• curprev 20:3520:35, 4 October 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 24,001 bytes +138‎ Clarify bitbake -e

13 July 2016

• curprev 23:4323:43, 13 July 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 23,863 bytes +317‎ →‎Troubleshooting
• curprev 23:4023:40, 13 July 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 23,546 bytes +201‎ No edit summary
• curprev 23:3723:37, 13 July 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 23,345 bytes +719‎ →‎Dependencies
• curprev 23:2723:27, 13 July 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 22,626 bytes +715‎ →‎Dependencies
• curprev 23:1823:18, 13 July 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 21,911 bytes +311‎ →‎How do I add a patch to a recipe?

29 June 2016

• curprev 20:4420:44, 29 June 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 21,600 bytes +40‎ →‎Why are .so files in the -dev package instead of the main package for a recipe?
• curprev 20:4220:42, 29 June 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ m 21,560 bytes 0‎ No edit summary

28 June 2016

• curprev 04:4704:47, 28 June 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 21,560 bytes +19‎ No edit summary
• curprev 04:4604:46, 28 June 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 21,541 bytes +700‎ No edit summary
• curprev 04:2304:23, 28 June 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 20,841 bytes +221‎ No edit summary
• curprev 04:1404:14, 28 June 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 20,620 bytes +12‎ No edit summary
• curprev 04:1304:13, 28 June 2016‎ PaulEggleton talk contribs‎ 20,608 bytes +20,608‎ Add draft technical FAQ