[yocto] HOB usage

[Joshua Lock]

On 08/12/11 21:18, Sathishkumar Duraisamy wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Sathishkumar Duraisamy
> <bewithsathish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Joshua Lock <josh at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> On 08/12/11 20:52, Sathishkumar Duraisamy wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I migrating from Openembedded to yocto project and using Beagleboard
>>>> as playground.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Joshua Lock <josh at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 05/12/11 10:35, madeeha javed wrote:
>>>>>> I an using Yocto Edison. My machine configuration is beagleboard. And
>>>>>> when I launch hob and Bake. I get a message that Output Image Type is
>>>>>> not set.When I Edit-> Preferences, I see that jffs2 and tar.bz2 are
>>>>>> set. And even if I select a different type, the message keeps is
>>>>>> there.
>>>>>
>>>> I too faced similar problem for hob.
>>>>
>>>>> Madeeha,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not able to replicate this issue. Have you modified any of the
>>>>> configuration files by hand? The three key files in build/conf are
>>>>> hob-post.conf, hob-pre.conf, local.conf
>>>>
>>>> Please find these files in the attachment.
>>>
>>> Did you forget the attachment? Or did the mailing list strip it?
>>
>> Sorry, I forget to attach.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's possible you've hard-assigned the variable in there.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you can provide more information I can try and replicate. A copy of
>>>>> the above configuration files would be useful.
>>>>
>>>> In openembedded, I see the some lines like this
>>>>
>>>> # Add the required image file system types below. Valid are
>>>> # jffs2, tar(.gz|bz2), cpio(.gz), cramfs, ext2(.gz), ext3(.gz), ext4(.gz|.bz2),
>>>> # squashfs, squashfs-lzma
>>>> IMAGE_FSTYPES = "jffs2 tar"
>>>>
>>>> which is moved to hob-post.conf, which may causing the problems I hope.
>>>
> 
> I forget to say, in bash terminal, it works fine. In hob only it
> causing the issue.
> 

The hob-pre and hob-post files are not used from the terminal, unless
you explicitly pass them.
I will look at the configuration files you've shared.

Also, can you tell us how you are launching hob?

Regards,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre