[yocto] Manipulating code and Building in offline environment

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-04-27 13:38, Lars Larsen wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have 2 questions
>
> I have finally managed to build an image like I want it.
>
>
> I consists of a kernel.
>
> The ROS framework.
>
> And our proprietary software under git control
>
>
> What I want to achieve is the following:
>
> When online it should fetch the latest commit (or what ever branch/tag) from our git repo.
>
> It should be possible to take a laptop with a fresh checkout of all the software, go to the field where the is NO
> INTERNET access, and be able to patch our code on the spot ,and build fresh images, for the target.
>
> When online in our office environment all our own software is correctly checked out from our git repo. and build.
> Beautifully.....
>
> But when offline ( I disconnect the LAN ) I continually gets errors like “Failure expanding variable SRCPV” on our
> software modules.
>
> I have following in build/conf/local.conf
>
>
> BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1"
>
> INHERIT += "own-mirrors"
>
> SOURCE_MIRROR_URL = "file://${DL_DIR}"
>
>
> and I experimented with BB_FETCH_PREMIRRORONLY = "1"
>
> with no appearent effect
>
>
> So question 1:
>
> How do I achieve the offline building. ?
>
> Is should be possible - right ?
>
>
> Question 2:
>
> Where in the tree is the checked out source code located, that bitbake compiles from.
>

I do this all the time successfully.

What is your target and what recipe(s) are having issues?

Note setting BB_NO_NETWORK = "1" in local.conf can help diagnose these issues


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