Questions tagged [bitbake]

BitBake is a simple tool for the execution of tasks. It is derived from Portage, which is the package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution. It is most commonly used to build packages, and is used as the basis of the OpenEmbedded project.

From the manual:

BitBake is a simple tool for the execution of tasks. It is derived from Portage, which is the package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution. It is most commonly used to build packages, and is used as the basis of the OpenEmbedded project.

BitBake is now managed using the Git source control system which can be obtained from git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake.git. Releases can be downloaded from http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/bitbake/ and the developer mailing list, bitbake-devel can be found at http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-devel.

The user manual is found in the docmentation directory within the source code.

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Add newer version of a package to Yocto

I am working with old Linux built with Yocto. I need to update one package in the image. Recipes for the package can be found here: https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/recipes/. What is the best way to do it? Should I add a new…
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A recipe tries to access the network in compile time. How can I set my local mirror as the source of it?

I'm trying to build an Image using Yocto Project. I need to build it for the future entirely offline. I generated the tarballs once online and moved them to my local mirror source directory. Then, I deleted all my build directory but the conf…
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Is it secure to run everything as root when rootfs is read only?

For our IoT test devices I followed the following practice: I used to disable ssh login for user root, add another user and install everything I needed on that account with fine grained privileges where root permissions are a must. Now, I'm porting…
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how to do yocto testing like weekly test full pass test and release test?

I am trying to do yocto testing: how to do yocto daily test report? how to do weekly test? yocto full pass test? sanity test for yocto? please guide me to do this?
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Is there a way to install keys into the opkg-keyring during the yocto build process and have them marks as ultimate rather than unknown by gpg

My problem I think is very simple. I would like to have opkg verify signatures before installing packages from my custom opkg repository. The issue I am having is that the keys I added to the opkg-keyrings yocto recipe are all marked as unknown on…
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Log files with same content after build

I performed Poky build fetching the latest master branch from git git clone -b rocko git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git Set up the Environment using the following command source poky/oe-init-build-env Then executed bitbake command bitbake…
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Yocto - Try to use Realtime Kernel Version

Try Hello there I tried to build a linux with yocto. Usually, I use the command bitbake core-image-minimal and have no errors. Now, I'd like to use the realtime kernel version. So I added the following lines in build/conf/local.conf according to…
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yocto do_patch does not work for native

I am trying to write a recipe and it does work well with my patch, but when I add my recipe "inherit native" it just simple passes my patch without applying it. Firstly, I wanted to upgrade one base recipe changing its file name to 2.8.33 ( this…
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Yocto fails to boot after adding package

I'm about to build a Linux-Yocto filesystem for Xilinx Zynq platform. Everything runs fine until I added one more package to the rootfs. It doesn't matter what kind of package I'm adding it always fails with: INIT: version 2.88…
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Bitbake Building errors

I used the command $ bitbake angstrom-lxde-image 2>&1 | tee -a buildoutput.txt but got the following error. ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'https://www.khronos.org/registry/khronos_headers.tgz;name=gles-h'. Unable to fetch…
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Which is better way to write task in package or appication linux

I am naive programmer, may be my question will be stupid. But still, my question becomes headache. I have following questions. suppose i am performing some task like printing hello on monitor screen. Then which is better way to write this task…
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How to 'mount' a bitbake output build - 'wic.bz2' files

Much like the ability to mount an image copy of an SD card, I am attempting to 'mount' a yocto/bitbake output file to inspect the contents or run via docker. Looking through various docs/tutorial, it is stated the 'wic.bz2' file type is designed to…
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yocto bitbake core-image-sato errors

During building core-image-sato on Yocto, I get an error: | checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu | configure: error: internal configure error for the platform triplet, please file a bug report | WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell…
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do_compile error while running bitbake on poky

iam using poky to build a BSP for my imxsabreauto board. i got the following error. please help me on this. error log: NOTE: Preparing runqueue NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks ERROR: Function failed: do_compile (log…
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cppunit can't find c++11 libs

I have written a program that I need to compile for raspberry-pi3 and it must be use bitbake for compilation. All was ok when I wrote C code; and i didn't use a dynamic library. If relevant, I need to use cppunit. I already added it in my…
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