I am trying to write a .bbappend file that will append to the initramfs-live-boot_1.0.bb which has a statement inside the do_install() that writes the contents of init-live.sh, a shell script that manages the boot procedure, to init, an initialisation script that runs upon boot. The purpose of my .bbappend file is to reference a modified version of the startup script to be copied in place of the original without changing the base openembedded-core and/or poky environments. The .bbappend file and my version of the script is therefore placed in my project directory with the rest of my own recipes to be built.
My initramfs-live-boot_1.0.bbappend looks like this:
SUMMARY = "Replacement recipe"
FILESEXTRAPATH_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
SRC_URI += "file://init.sh"
do_install_append() {
install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/init.sh ${D}/init
}
I have a folder files in the same directory as the .bbappend file that contains the init.sh script it should be reading from.
The problem is when I try to build the image, it spits out this error:
WARNING: Failed to fetch URL file://init.sh, attempting MIRRORS if available
and then attempts to search through the poky directory for the missing files rather than in my project directory.
Have I written my .bbappend file wrong? How would I go about editing the initramfs scripts using the .bbappend file?
FILESEXTRAPATH_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:" should be FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:". Note the last S in FILESEXTRAPATHS.
That should make it work for you.
Another improvement would be to rename you file file from init.sh to init-live.sh. I.e. use the same name as the file in the original initramfs-live-bootrecipe. That would allow you to remove your do_install_append()-function as well as SRC_URI += "file://init.sh" from the bbappend. The recipe itself would handle those for you. Thus, the only line you'd actually need is the FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:".
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I am trying to install a custom application on my Yocto build.
I currently use a Raspberry Pi 4 64 bit setup, for which I want PyQt5 to display an application directly on the frame buffer (so no windowing manager or desktop envoirement).
My current build with Yocto completes and boots on the Raspberry Pi. All the Qt5 libraries are also present in the root fs after the bitbake build.
Although, I'm having problems getting a custom layer, that adds a custom recipe with a custom application to also copy over to the destination root fs.
My custom layer is called 'meta-rpikms' with recipe 'recipes-kms-qt-app' which contains the application bb files. This files is called 'basicquick_0.1.bb' and has the following contents (this test application tries to add a EGLFS friendly Qt5 applicaiton, i'll try PyQt5 later):
SUMMARY = "Simple Qt5 Quick application"
#SECTION = "examples"
LICENSE = "MIT"
#PACKAGE_ARCH = "all"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"
DEPENDS += "qtbase qtdeclarative qtquickcontrols2"
SRCREV = "${AUTOREV}"
SRC_URI = "git://github.com/shigmas/BasicQuick.git"
S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
require recipes-qt/qt5/qt5.inc
do_install() {
install -d ${D}${bindir_native}
install -m 0755 BasicQuick ${D}${bindir_native}
}
FILES_${PN} += "${bindir_native}"
When I bitbake the custom layer of my meta-rpikms (called 'qt5-kms-rpi-image'), it does compute. When I take a look at the 'image_initial_manifest' file, my custom application does show up, suggesting that it does compile and try to install the application:
# This file was generated automatically and contains the packages
# passed on to the package manager in order to create the rootfs.
# Format:
# <package_type>,<package_name>
# where:
# <package_type> can be:
# 'mip' = must install package
# 'aop' = attempt only package
# 'mlp' = multilib package
# 'lgp' = language package
mip,basicquick
mip,bluez5
mip,bridge-utils
mip,hostapd
mip, bla bla bla etc etc etc.
And if I take a look in: '~/builds/pyqt5_try1/poky/rpi64-build/tmp/work/cortexa72-poky-linux/basicquick/0.1-r0', the expected files do show up. Also suggesting that it does atleast build the application. This makes the think that the 'install' arguments in my .bb file are pointing to the wrong folder.
In my basicquick_*.bb file this is to make the directory and install (copy) the built files:
install -d ${D}${bindir_native}
install -m 0755 BasicQuick ${D}${bindir_native}
I used the 'bitbake -e' command to trace the variable D and bindir_native:
D="/home/mats/builds/pyqt5_try1/poky/rpi64-build/tmp/work/raspberrypi4_64-poky-linux/qt5-kms-rpi-image/1.0-r0/image"
bindir_native="/usr/bin"
This seems okay at first glance, but when I manually follow the destination of the variable 'D', there is no 'images' folder created. I also wonder why everybody installs their custom applications on ${D}/usr/bin? Should this not be written to the build/tmp/deploy directory? Or am I missing a step here.
So, in this 'qt5-kms-rpi-image/1.0-r0' folder, there is a folder called 'deploy-qt5-kms-rpi-image-image-complete', which contains a rootfs. But there also is a rootfs folder in the 'qt5-kms-rpi-image/1.0-r0' folder. Both of these rootfs's do not contain any mention of my basicquick application, or a BasicQuick folder being created in /usr/bin.
Also, the rootfs found in the "build/tmp/deploy/images/raspberrypi4-64/qt5-kms-rpi-image-raspberrypi4-64.tar.bz2" does not contain any mention of the basicquick application being present in the filesystem.
Does anybody have any clues on what I am missing? Am I just not copying my files to the correct location? Or does the final deploy image end up somewhere else from where I am expecting it?
Thanks in advance.
With kind regards,
Mats de Waard
I am using cl-som-imx7 board, using gatesgarth branch to setup the yocto env.
I have changed the kernel configurations by
Executing the command
bitbake -c memuconfig virtual/kernel
Rename the .config to defconfig
I don't have any luck in including those changes inside my build. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
The following section of the Yocto Manual illustrates how to do that:
https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.5/kernel-dev/kernel-dev.html#changing-the-configuration
You basically need to rename this .config file to defconfig and add it with your kernel recipe to be as follows
linux_x.x.bb
linux
|
|_ defconfig
and add the following lines to your recipe:
# This to add the package name directory to search paths (i.e. The recipe name which is linux in this example)
FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
SRC_URI += "file://defconfig"
I new to Yocto so there are probably some mistakes and misunderstanding that I've had, I appreciate if you can help.
So, I want to add a new package (tar file) to my custom image.
I have followed steps and steps in manual and some online instructions. While running: "bitbake mylayer", the layer is built fine but I got this error while building the image, here is the log file:
DEBUG: Executing python function rootfs_deb_bad_recommendations
DEBUG: Python function rootfs_deb_bad_recommendations finished
DEBUG: Executing python function extend_recipe_sysroot
NOTE: Installed into sysroot: []
NOTE: Skipping as already exists in sysroot: ['depmodwrapper-cross', 'apt-native', 'dpkg-native', 'pseudo-native', 'update-rc.d-native', 'prelink-native', 'makedevs-native', 'ldconfig-native', 'opkg-util$
DEBUG: Python function extend_recipe_sysroot finished
DEBUG: Executing python function do_rootfs
NOTE: ###### Generate rootfs #######
NOTE: Installing the following packages: apt busybox copy-uefiimg-to-sda coreutils dpkg e2fsprogs-resize2fs libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libglib-2.0-0 gptfdisk libjemalloc2 kernel-module-axi-dma-sensor ku$
ERROR: Unable to install packages.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package mypackage is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'mylayer' has no installation candidate
DEBUG: Python function do_rootfs finished
ERROR: Function failed: do_rootfs
And here is mylayer.bb:
SUMMARY = ""
LICENSE = "CLOSE"
FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
SRC_URI += "file://mypackage.tar"
Also, I have included the package in conf/local.conf:
IMAGE_INSTALL_append += " mylayer"
So beside trying to figure out how to solve this problem, I also have some questions:
I have read some example of .bb, and they mentioned about LIC_FILES_CHKSUM. The mypackage.tar.gz is a package to install a platform for the device and I don't know much about the source code, so I don't know if it is necessary to include the license? Or how to know that this package need license to install?
In some answer I found online, there is one saying that I need to include PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_deb" (they want to install the .deb file), so probably in my case I will need PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package.tar" right? I have tried to change variable, but it still not successful.
The mypackage.tar includes some deb files. If I could not install mypackage.tar, can I instead install these .deb files? Can I put it all in mylayer.bb?
Thank you in advanced, I have tried to study much documents as I could but I get so confused and there is huge amount of information to digest.
First, before answering your questions
Let me mention some best practices advice for you:
Rename the recipe to some significant name related to you compressed package.
Naming the recipe to mylayer confuses Yocto users, because there is the term layer also.
Regarding you recipe:
There is no need for FILESEXTRAPATHS because the recipe path is added automatically to Yocto paths.
FILESEXTRAPATHS it is required for .bbappend files.
You need to override the do_install task function, it does nothing by default.
do_install is the first essential task to make sure that your sources are included in the final image.
Beside that, when specifying a compressed source file into SRC_URI, yocto automatically decompresses it.
This is mentioned here.
So, here what your recipe should look like:
SUMMARY = ""
LICENSE = "CLOSED"
# Prevent Yocto from decompressing the file
SRC_URI = "file://mypackage.tar;unpack=0"
do_install(){
# Create the opt folder into the final image, ${D} is ${WORKDIR}/image
install -d ${D}/opt
# Copy the compressed file there; You can change permissions as you want
install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/mypackage.tar ${D}/opt
}
# Very important to specify what you installed in (do_install)
FILES_${PN} = "/opt/*"
Now, when you run IMAGE_INSTALL_append += " mylayer" your file will be installed.
Regarding your questions:
You mentioned that your compressed file contains .deb files, I assume that no license checksum is needed. Also, I understand that you may wanted to point to SRC_URI[md5sum] or other checksums for the full package. That is also not needed for local files, it is used to check for the integrity of online sources.
PACKAGE_CLASSES as mentioned here, is used by the system to know in what type the data should be packaged. By the data I mean the data that you installed with do_install. That data get packaged for according to your PACKAGE_CLASSES variable, for example, to deb file. And that is used, along side with all other recipes packages, to build the final rootfs.
Yes, if you are installing the tar file into the image and then unpack it to install all deb files, for example, with dpkg. You can use the bin_package class to do that, now the recipe must be changed for that reason:
Decompress the tar file and provide the deb files in the local files folder.
Add all deb files to SRC_URI
Inherit the bin_package class
Specify the files to be packaged.
Your recipe should look like this:
SUMMARY = ""
LICENSE = "CLOSED"
SRC_URI = "file://deb_file1.deb \
file://deb_file2.deb"
# No need to `do_install` , it is invoked by the (bin_package) class
FILES_${PN} = ""
Important:
About FILES_${PN}, you need to add all what the deb installed into the image folder
Example, if your deb file installs this:
/usr/bin/hello
/etc/hello.cfg
Specify them:
FILES_${PN} = "/usr/bin/*"
FILES_${PN} += "/etc/*"
Use * so if other deb files install files into the same folder as others it will include all.
I am new in Yocto environment, and I am trying to modify my initscripts recipe (from Poky) with .bbappend file. The problem is that everything I tried with it, it never worked. My file (../sources/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_%.bbappend) contains:
FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
SRC_URI += "file://type.sh"
do_install_append () {
install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/init.d/test
install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/type.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/test/type.sh
update-rc.d -r ${D} type.sh start 30 2 3 4 5 .
}
It seems that nothing is working ("test" folder is not even created in the rootfs, nor with another folder in /etc).
If I write a mistaken file in SRC_URI in .bbbappend file, bitbake shows a warning (OK).
If I write some syntax error in .bbappend file, bitbake not finishes, it returns an error (OK).
Typing bitbake-layers show-appends , I can see that my .bbappend file appears and it is not skipped.
Maybe the problem is the bitbake, I am doing it with bitbake core-image-minimal, maybe I need another target.
Please, let me know any advice because I don't know what else I can check.
Thank you so much,
How do I add my custom directory entirely to the rootfs of the yocto project?
I want to add a non-empty directory to Yocto rootfs
I proceeded by writing the do_install statement, but it was not possible to copy an entire non-empty folder to rootfs with "install -m".
do_install() {
install -m 0755 /MYDirectory ${D}/MyDirectory
}
This seems to fail because you can only copy a single file
What can I try?
see https://stackoverflow.com/a/47084404/3151114
and don't forget to add the directory to FILES, e.g.
FILES_${PN} += "/MyDirectory"
(just as https://stackoverflow.com/a/54311741/3151114)