[yocto] Security updates question

2018-09-07 Thread Brian Smucker
Hello all, We have a device whose image is built using an older yocto image. It is based on yocto Danny, if I recall correctly. How do users of yocto handle the need occasionally to update one or more component packages to deal with security vulnerabilities? I am not a yocto expert and I

[yocto] Security upgrade stategy

2017-11-29 Thread Brian Smucker
Hello, I have an older yocto-based image built with Danny. We have a need to update two components, php and dropbear, to the most modern versions for security purposes. What is the preferred way to do this without moving the whole image to the latest version of poky/yocto? That would be a

[yocto] How to copy recipe and have different target names

2014-06-17 Thread Brian Smucker
Hello, I would like to have yocto generate two copies of busybox, one statically-linked and one dynamically linked. So I try to make a copy of the busybox recipe and give it a new name like busybox-s_x.bb But my knowlege of yocto comes up short and I get lots of errors. Is there a way

Re: [yocto] How to copy recipe and have different target names

2014-06-17 Thread Brian Smucker
, how can I build them both as separate targets? Thanks, Brian On 6/17/2014 9:31 AM, Andrea Adami wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Brian Smucker b...@bsmucker.eu.org wrote: Hello, I would like to have yocto generate two copies of busybox, one statically-linked and one dynamically linked

Re: [yocto] How to copy recipe and have different target names

2014-06-17 Thread Brian Smucker
). And it errors out when it attempts to patch to busybox-static-1.20.2-r2/busybox-static-1.20.2 (the S variable path). What am I missing? Thanks, Brian On 6/17/2014 9:31 AM, Andrea Adami wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Brian Smucker b...@bsmucker.eu.org wrote: Hello, I would like

Re: [yocto] Yocto with Initial RamFS

2014-05-29 Thread Brian Smucker
Hi, Was wondering why this has not been answered. Maybe it is too dumb of a question? If so, let me know or point me to some documentation. Thanks. Brian On 5/23/2014 11:37 AM, Brian Smucker wrote: Hello, I have an initial ramfs image that I want to convert to Yocto. That is in addition

Re: [yocto] Yocto with Initial RamFS

2014-05-29 Thread Brian Smucker
, how would I begin to do it? Thanks, Brian On 5/29/2014 8:38 AM, Søren Holm wrote: Torsdag den 29. maj 2014 08:07:11 skrev Brian Smucker: Hi, Was wondering why this has not been answered. Maybe it is too dumb of a question? If so, let me know or point me to some documentation. I'm declaring

Re: [yocto] Yocto with Initial RamFS

2014-05-29 Thread Brian Smucker
On 5/29/2014 12:38 PM, Søren Holm wrote: Torsdag den 29. maj 2014 09:49:55 skrev Brian Smucker: Thanks Soren, My followup question is: Can I mix toolchains in this situation? Can I compile the initramfs binaries with the uclibc toolchain based on the poky-tiny distro and the regular file

[yocto] Yocto with Initial RamFS

2014-05-23 Thread Brian Smucker
Hello, I have an initial ramfs image that I want to convert to Yocto. That is in addition to the main yocto-based custom distro. The initial ram fs is a tiny image based on uclibc (poky-tiny) and having busybox and two other compiled apps. The main file system is eglibc-based. How is

Re: [yocto] Busybox still old version: Still looking for a clear understanding of an old mystery.

2013-01-16 Thread Brian Smucker
wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Brian Smucker b...@bsmucker.eu.org wrote: Hi Rudolf, On 1/15/2013 3:28 PM, Rudolf Streif wrote: Brian, What are you exactly referring to as new version? The package version that bitbake builds is defined by the recipe, through the version designation

[yocto] How to force newly-compiled busybox into core-image-minimal (restating an earlier post)

2013-01-16 Thread Brian Smucker
Hello all, I'm not sure if my prior question was unclear or if the question was something nobody knows the answer to. I think there's probably a simple answer, but maybe not. So the background is this: A poky/danny setup where I have previously-compiled core-image-minimal. I force busybox

Re: [yocto] How to force newly-compiled busybox into core-image-minimal (restating an earlier post)

2013-01-16 Thread Brian Smucker
Gary, Thank you. It seems the bitbake -C option was indeed what I wanted. And researching it helped fill in some of the gaps in my understanding. Thanks, Brian On 1/16/2013 11:09 AM, Gary Thomas wrote: On 2013-01-16 12:02, Brian Smucker wrote: Hello all, I'm not sure if my prior

[yocto] Busybox still old version: Still looking for a clear understanding of an old mystery.

2013-01-15 Thread Brian Smucker
Hello All, I'm a relative newbie to yocto/oe, but have got a ways down the road to understanding, but the gaps in my understanding cause me great grief at times. I think this probably is a simple question, but somehow I'm doing something wrong. I recompile busybox with a new config:

Re: [yocto] Busybox still old version: Still looking for a clear understanding of an old mystery.

2013-01-15 Thread Brian Smucker
Hi Rudolf, On 1/15/2013 3:28 PM, Rudolf Streif wrote: Brian, What are you exactly referring to as new version? The package version that bitbake builds is defined by the recipe, through the version designation in the recipe's file name or through explicitly setting PV. I think what you

Re: [yocto] Magic kernel config option.

2013-01-02 Thread Brian Smucker
On 1/2/2013 10:06 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On 12-12-24 02:59 PM, Brian Smucker wrote: Hi, Catching up on email from the holidays. Did you ever get an answer to this ? Not yet, resumed my quest today. I'm a yocto mostly-newbie, trying to find my way. I have a custom layer that I am

Re: [yocto] Magic kernel config option.

2013-01-02 Thread Brian Smucker
On 1/2/2013 1:12 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On 13-01-02 04:11 PM, Brian Smucker wrote: On 1/2/2013 10:06 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On 12-12-24 02:59 PM, Brian Smucker wrote: Hi, Catching up on email from the holidays. Did you ever get an answer to this ? Not yet, resumed my quest

Re: [yocto] Magic kernel config option.

2013-01-02 Thread Brian Smucker
, the light finally dawned that there was something else going on. The silver lining to all this thrashing around for me was the fact that I do understand the kernel bitbake process much better. Brian On 1/2/2013 2:15 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Brian Smucker b

[yocto] Magic kernel config option.

2012-12-24 Thread Brian Smucker
Hi, I'm a yocto mostly-newbie, trying to find my way. I have a custom layer that I am using to build a kernel. The layer right now consists of a few kernel patches and a defconfig and is based on the standard kernel otherwise. When I do a diff on my defconfig and the bitbake generated

Re: [yocto] supported IMAGE_FSTYPES

2012-10-30 Thread Brian Smucker
From a yocto also-newbie: This is a helpful command: bitbake -e |grep xxx where xxx is something like ^IMAGE_FSTYPE= That retrieves the current settings of that variable. It doesn't answer your main question of what are the options. I had that exact question a week or so ago. Thanks Brian