[yocto] yocto ref manual: confusion between BB_ENV_WHITELIST and BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE

Scott Rifenbark scott.m.rifenbark at linux.intel.com
Thu Sep 6 07:09:59 PDT 2012


I  changed the variable from BB_ENV_WHITELIST in the description to 
BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE to make sense with the given example.  You can see the 
change at 
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.3/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#ref-bitbake-runtask.

Scott

On 9/6/2012 1:41 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Saturday 10 March 2012 08:59:02 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>    from section B.5 of yocto ref manual:
>>
>> Tell BitBake to load what you want from the environment into the data
>> store. You can do so through the BB_ENV_WHITELIST variable. For
>> example, assume you want to prevent the build system from accessing
>> your $HOME/.ccache directory. The following command tells BitBake to
>> load CCACHE_DIR from the environment into the data store:
>>
>>       export BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE="$BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE CCACHE_DIR"
>>
>>    i think you can see how that might confuse the reader.
> Looks like this still needs to be addressed. Scott, would you mind taking a
> look at this? Seems to me that BB_ENV_WHITELIST just ought to be changed to
> BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE to make this make sense.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>




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