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+MACHINE ??= "romulus"
+DISTRO ?= "openbmc-phosphor"
+PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm"
+SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS_append ?= " *"
+EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks"
+USER_CLASSES ?= "buildstats image-mklibs image-prelink"
+PATCHRESOLVE = "noop"
+BB_DISKMON_DIRS = "\
+    STOPTASKS,${TMPDIR},1G,100K \
+    STOPTASKS,${DL_DIR},1G,100K \
+    STOPTASKS,${SSTATE_DIR},1G,100K \
+    STOPTASKS,/tmp,100M,100K \
+    ABORT,${TMPDIR},100M,1K \
+    ABORT,${DL_DIR},100M,1K \
+    ABORT,${SSTATE_DIR},100M,1K \
+    ABORT,/tmp,10M,1K"
+CONF_VERSION = "1"
+INHERIT += "extrausers"
+EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = " \
+  usermod -p '\$1\$UGMqyqdG\$FZiylVFmRRfl9Z0Ue8G7e/' root; \
+  "