bitbake Questions

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I am using BBB to understand the yocto-project. I am not sure how patching works. This is my project directory ├── meta-testlayer ├── poky meta-test layer contains a "helloworld" example...
Carlynne asked 9/8, 2017 at 7:23

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While bitbaking a Yocto rocko build I got this error: WARNING: go-systemd-4+gitb4a58d95188dd092ae20072bac14cece0e67c388-r0 do_fetch: Failed to fetch URL git://github.com/coreos/go-systemd.git, atte...
Sassoon asked 1/7, 2021 at 18:5

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So, each time I modify the device tree I typically change the dts in a custom recipe and rebuild the image. The rebuild takes a long time since it rebuilds the entire kernel, and then the image nee...
Competent asked 12/8, 2016 at 12:14

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I would like to split an application into multiple packages. Basically I just wish to add another one which could be built by using a specific image. Inside the .bb file associated with the applica...
Garate asked 6/2, 2015 at 11:56

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There is a project in which we use project yocto, and our metas fetch source from some remote git repositories. The problem is that these repositories are only accessible in some particular situat...
Haimes asked 7/1, 2019 at 16:27

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I'm trying to get /var/log to be persistent in my fido build. The default setting on poky is, that there is a symlink in /var which points log -> volatile/log. volatile is a mounted on a tmpfs. ...
Dremadremann asked 6/1, 2017 at 14:0

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I'm using Yocto v2.4.1 and BitBake v1.36.0. I want to remove qemu and qemu-native (All qemu related thing) from my custom generated Linux Image. How can i do that ? Thanks
Refugee asked 28/12, 2018 at 8:41

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I'm building a Bitbake recipe and getting the following error message: ERROR: When reparsing virtual:native:/path/to/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/cve-check-tool/cve-check-tool_5.6.4.bb.do_populate_c...
Speculative asked 13/2, 2018 at 8:32

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BitBake fails for me because it can't find https://www.example.com. My computer is an x86-64 running native Xubuntu 18.04. Network connection is via DSL. I'm using the latest versions of the OpenE...
Cripps asked 18/9, 2018 at 22:37

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I have a custom machine layer based on https://github.com/jumpnow/meta-wandboard. I've upgraded the kernel to 4.8.6 and want to add X11 to the image. I'm modifying to image recipe (console-image.b...
Extrasensory asked 10/11, 2016 at 7:50

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Is there a way to drop root user on AWS CodeBuild? We are building a Yocto project that fails on CodeBuild if we're root (Bitbake sanity check). Our desperate approach doesn't work either: ... ...
Urushiol asked 16/7, 2018 at 15:44

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I recently started using Bitbake for building Yocto. Everytime I build, it consumes more space and currently I'm running out of disk space. The images are not getting overwritten. A set of new file...
Bernhardt asked 10/10, 2016 at 7:33

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Why do we need to give path of files in SRC_URI even though we are including the files path in FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend variable? For example: SUMMARY = "Simple Hello application" LICENSE ...
Condyloid asked 21/9, 2017 at 11:30

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How do I make a bitbake recipe that clones a git repo with built in authentication (into the url)? What is the format of the SRC_URI?
Varve asked 26/8, 2014 at 14:29

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I am using YOCTO to build an image but the Bitbake process always get stuck at any task including fetch from git Ex: Currently 2 running tasks (1373 of 2477): 0: rpi-mkimage-native-git-r0 do_fetc...
Valenciavalenciennes asked 25/4, 2016 at 21:0

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I am trying to learn yocto by following the video tutorials on their main website. I installed the poky-rocko-18.0.0 and after setting up the build environment I tried to build the linux image usin...
Kleptomania asked 6/1, 2018 at 21:25

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I'm porting a layer to kirkstone which as an outdated patch which cannot be applied anymore (to u-boot). Can devtool be used to fix that patch? The problem is that per default devtool modify applie...
Sexual asked 14/6, 2022 at 13:9

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One of my recipes in Yocto need to create a file containing a very specific line, something like: ${libdir}/something To do this, I have the recipe task: do_install() { echo '${libdir}/somethi...
Connolly asked 10/6, 2016 at 9:0

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I am trying to modify the kernel config without luck. There is a BSP in meta-xxx-yyy/ with recipes-kernel/linux/linux_git.bb. I try to override the kernel config in my layer named meta-xxx-mylayer ...
Vertical asked 24/6, 2015 at 20:24

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I have a .bbappend recipe that I need to create a symbolic link in my system. This is how it looks like now: bernardo@bernardo-ThinkCentre-Edge72:~/yocto/genericx86-64-rocko-18.0.0/meta-datavisio...
Skirl asked 9/1, 2018 at 11:50

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I have a Yocto bitbake image recipe that can be built successfully. However, the same image recipe fails when generating SDK with -c populate_sdk command. The error seems to be caused by mixing 3...
Honig asked 9/8, 2018 at 11:3

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How do I include a depends line in a bitbake file with a condition ? I want something like below: if (some env varible) DEPENDS += "recipe-1" else DEPENDS += "recipe-2' I have tried below in t...
Ocker asked 8/2, 2016 at 11:25

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Is there any other way to clone all the dependent folders in a Bitbake recipe file (similar to using recursive tag)? I'm currently doing it as below: SRC_URI="git://[uri_a];...;name=a \ git://[ur...
Alto asked 1/6, 2016 at 13:20

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The yocto project allows the use of relative path in most of its configuration files but not within the ./build/conf/bblayers.conf file. What is the reason for blocking the use of anything but abso...
Reviewer asked 11/8, 2016 at 8:11

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thx for reading, I am working in a project where we create a secimage (linux yocto image). I am not familiar with all the tools used there and neither am I familiar with the technical terms to us...
Musky asked 10/6, 2016 at 7:21

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