| Release 3.2 (gatesgarth) |
| ======================== |
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| This section provides migration information for moving to the Yocto |
| Project 3.2 Release (codename "gatesgarth") from the prior release. |
| |
| .. _migration-3.2-minimum-system-requirements: |
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| Minimum system requirements |
| --------------------------- |
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| ``gcc`` version 6.0 is now required at minimum on the build host. For older |
| host distributions where this is not available, you can use the |
| ``buildtools-extended-tarball`` (easily installable using |
| ``scripts/install-buildtools``). |
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| |
| .. _migration-3.2-removed-recipes: |
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| Removed recipes |
| --------------- |
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| The following recipes have been removed: |
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| - ``bjam-native``: replaced by ``boost-build-native`` |
| - ``avahi-ui``: folded into the main ``avahi`` recipe - the GTK UI can be disabled using :term:`PACKAGECONFIG` for ``avahi``. |
| - ``build-compare``: no longer needed with the removal of the ``packagefeed-stability`` class |
| - ``dhcp``: obsolete, functionally replaced by ``dhcpcd`` and ``kea`` |
| - ``libmodulemd-v1``: replaced by ``libmodulemd`` |
| - ``packagegroup-core-device-devel``: obsolete |
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| .. _migration-3.2-removed-classes: |
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| Removed classes |
| --------------- |
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| The following classes (.bbclass files) have been removed: |
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| - ``spdx``: obsolete - the Yocto Project is a strong supporter of SPDX, but this class was old code using a dated approach and had the potential to be misleading. The ``meta-sdpxscanner`` layer is a much more modern and active approach to handling this and is recommended as a replacement. |
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| - ``packagefeed-stability``: this class had become obsolete with the advent of hash equivalence and reproducible builds. |
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| pseudo path filtering and mismatch behaviour |
| -------------------------------------------- |
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| pseudo now operates on a filtered subset of files. This is a significant change |
| to the way pseudo operates within OpenEmbedded - by default, pseudo monitors and |
| logs (adds to its database) any file created or modified whilst in a ``fakeroot`` |
| environment. However, there are large numbers of files that we simply don't care |
| about the permissions of whilst in that ``fakeroot`` context, for example ${:term:`S`}, ${:term:`B`}, ${:term:`T`}, |
| ${:term:`SSTATE_DIR`}, the central sstate control directories, and others. |
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| As of this release, new functionality in pseudo is enabled to ignore these |
| directory trees (controlled using a new :term:`PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS` variable) |
| resulting in a cleaner database with less chance of "stray" mismatches if files |
| are modified outside pseudo context. It also should reduce some overhead from |
| pseudo as the interprocess round trip to the server is avoided. |
| |
| There is a possible complication where some existing recipe may break, for |
| example, a recipe was found to be writing to ``${B}/install`` for |
| ``make install`` in ``do_install`` and since ``${B}`` is listed as not to be tracked, |
| there were errors trying to ``chown root`` for files in this location. Another |
| example was the ``tcl`` recipe where the source directory :term:`S` is set to a |
| subdirectory of the source tree but files were written out to the directory |
| structure above that subdirectory. For these types of cases in your own recipes, |
| extend :term:`PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS` to cover additional paths that pseudo should not |
| be monitoring. |
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| In addition, pseudo's behaviour on mismatches has now been changed - rather |
| than doing what turns out to be a rather dangerous "fixup" if it sees a file |
| with a different path but the same inode as another file it has previously seen, |
| pseudo will throw an ``abort()`` and direct you to a :yocto_wiki:`wiki page </Pseudo_Abort>` |
| that explains how to deal with this. |
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| .. _migration-3.2-multilib-mlprefix: |
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| ``MLPREFIX`` now required for multilib when runtime dependencies conditionally added |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| In order to solve some previously intractable problems with runtime |
| dependencies and multilib, a change was made that now requires the :term:`MLPREFIX` |
| value to be explicitly prepended to package names being added as |
| dependencies (e.g. in :term:`RDEPENDS` and :term:`RRECOMMENDS` values) |
| where the dependency is conditionally added. |
| |
| If you have anonymous Python or in-line Python conditionally adding |
| dependencies in your custom recipes, and you intend for those recipes to |
| work with multilib, then you will need to ensure that ``${MLPREFIX}`` |
| is prefixed on the package names in the dependencies, for example |
| (from the ``glibc`` recipe):: |
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| RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ldconfig', '${MLPREFIX}ldconfig', '', d)}" |
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| This also applies when conditionally adding packages to :term:`PACKAGES` where |
| those packages have dependencies, for example (from the ``alsa-plugins`` recipe):: |
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| PACKAGES += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'pulseaudio', 'alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-conf', '', d)}" |
| ... |
| RDEPENDS_${PN}-pulseaudio-conf += "\ |
| ${MLPREFIX}libasound-module-conf-pulse \ |
| ${MLPREFIX}libasound-module-ctl-pulse \ |
| ${MLPREFIX}libasound-module-pcm-pulse \ |
| " |
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| .. _migration-3.2-packagegroup-core-device-devel: |
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| packagegroup-core-device-devel no longer included in images built for qemu* machines |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| ``packagegroup-core-device-devel`` was previously added automatically to |
| images built for ``qemu*`` machines, however the purpose of the group and what |
| it should contain is no longer clear, and in general, adding userspace |
| development items to images is best done at the image/class level; thus this |
| packagegroup was removed. |
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| This packagegroup previously pulled in the following: |
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| - ``distcc-config`` |
| - ``nfs-export-root`` |
| - ``bash`` |
| - ``binutils-symlinks`` |
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| If you still need any of these in your image built for a ``qemu*`` machine |
| then you will add them explicitly to :term:`IMAGE_INSTALL` or another |
| appropriate place in the dependency chain for your image (if you have not |
| already done so). |
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| .. _migration-3.2-dhcp: |
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| DHCP server/client replaced |
| --------------------------- |
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| The ``dhcp`` software package has become unmaintained and thus has been |
| functionally replaced by ``dhcpcd`` (client) and ``kea`` (server). You will |
| need to replace references to the recipe/package names as appropriate - most |
| commonly, at the package level ``dhcp-client`` should be replaced by |
| ``dhcpcd`` and ``dhcp-server`` should be replaced by ``kea``. If you have any |
| custom configuration files for these they will need to be adapted - refer to |
| the upstream documentation for ``dhcpcd`` and ``kea`` for further details. |
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| .. _migration-3.2-packaging-changes: |
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| Packaging changes |
| ----------------- |
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| - ``python3``: the ``urllib`` Python package has now moved into the core package, as it is used more commonly than just netclient (e.g. email, xml, mimetypes, pydoc). In addition, the ``pathlib`` module is now also part of the core package. |
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| - ``iptables``: ``iptables-apply`` and ``ip6tables-apply`` have been split out to their own package to avoid a bash dependency in the main ``iptables`` package |
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| .. _migration-3.2-package-qa-checks: |
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| Package QA check changes |
| ------------------------ |
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| Previously, the following package QA checks triggered warnings, however they can |
| be indicators of genuine underlying problems and are therefore now treated as |
| errors: |
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| - :ref:`already-stripped <qa-check-already-stripped>` |
| - :ref:`compile-host-path <qa-check-compile-host-path>` |
| - :ref:`installed-vs-shipped <qa-check-installed-vs-shipped>` |
| - :ref:`ldflags <qa-check-ldflags>` |
| - :ref:`pn-overrides <qa-check-pn-overrides>` |
| - :ref:`rpaths <qa-check-rpaths>` |
| - :ref:`staticdev <qa-check-staticdev>` |
| - :ref:`unknown-configure-option <qa-check-unknown-configure-option>` |
| - :ref:`useless-rpaths <qa-check-useless-rpaths>` |
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| In addition, the following new checks were added and default to triggering an error: |
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| - :ref:`shebang-size <qa-check-shebang-size>`: Check for shebang (#!) lines longer than 128 characters, which can give an error at runtime depending on the operating system. |
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| - :ref:`unhandled-features-check <qa-check-unhandled-features-check>`: Check if any of the variables supported by the :ref:`features_check <ref-classes-features_check>` class is set while not inheriting the class itself. |
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| - :ref:`missing-update-alternatives <qa-check-missing-update-alternatives>`: Check if the recipe sets the :term:`ALTERNATIVE` variable for any of its packages, and does not inherit the :ref:`update-alternatives <ref-classes-update-alternatives>` class. |
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| - A trailing slash or duplicated slashes in the value of :term:`S` or :term:`B` will now trigger a warning so that they can be removed and path comparisons can be more reliable - remove any instances of these in your recipes if the warning is displayed. |
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| .. _migration-3.2-src-uri-file-globbing: |
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| Globbing no longer supported in ``file://`` entries in ``SRC_URI`` |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| Globbing (``*`` and ``?`` wildcards) in ``file://`` URLs within :term:`SRC_URI` |
| did not properly support file checksums, thus changes to the source files |
| would not always change the do_fetch task checksum, and consequently would |
| not ensure that the changed files would be incorporated in subsequent builds. |
| |
| Unfortunately it is not practical to make globbing work generically here, so |
| the decision was taken to remove support for globs in ``file://`` URLs. |
| If you have any usage of these in your recipes, then you will now need to |
| either add each of the files that you expect to match explicitly, or |
| alternatively if you still need files to be pulled in dynamically, put the |
| files into a subdirectory and reference that instead. |
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| .. _migration-3.2-deploydir-clean: |
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| deploy class now cleans ``DEPLOYDIR`` before ``do_deploy`` |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- |
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| ``do_deploy`` as implemented in the :ref:`deploy <ref-classes-deploy>` class now cleans up ${:term:`DEPLOYDIR`} before running, just as ``do_install`` cleans up ${:term:`D`} before running. This reduces the risk of :term:`DEPLOYDIR` being accidentally contaminated by files from previous runs, possibly even with different config, in case of incremental builds. |
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| Most recipes and classes that inherit the :ref:`deploy <ref-classes-deploy>` class or interact with ``do_deploy`` are unlikely to be affected by this unless they add ``prefuncs`` to ``do_deploy`` *which also* put files into ``${DEPLOYDIR}`` - these should be refactored to use ``do_deploy_prepend`` instead. |
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| .. _migration-3.2-nativesdk-sdk-provides-dummy: |
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| Custom SDK / SDK-style recipes need to include ``nativesdk-sdk-provides-dummy`` |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| All ``nativesdk`` packages require ``/bin/sh`` due to their postinstall scriptlets, thus this package has to be dummy-provided within the SDK and ``nativesdk-sdk-provides-dummy`` now does this. If you have a custom SDK recipe (or your own SDK-style recipe similar to e.g. ``buildtools-tarball``), you will need to ensure ``nativesdk-sdk-provides-dummy`` or an equivalent is included in :term:`TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK`. |
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| ``ld.so.conf`` now moved back to main ``glibc`` package |
| ------------------------------------------------------- |
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| There are cases where one doesn't want ``ldconfig`` on target (e.g. for |
| read-only root filesystems, it's rather pointless), yet one still |
| needs ``/etc/ld.so.conf`` to be present at image build time: |
| |
| When some recipe installs libraries to a non-standard location, and |
| therefore installs in a file in ``/etc/ld.so.conf.d/foo.conf``, we |
| need ``/etc/ld.so.conf`` containing:: |
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| include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf |
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| in order to get those other locations picked up. |
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| Thus ``/etc/ld.so.conf`` is now in the main ``glibc`` package so that |
| there's always an ``ld.so.conf`` present when the build-time ``ldconfig`` |
| runs towards the end of image construction. |
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| The ``ld.so.conf`` and ``ld.so.conf.d/*.conf`` files do not take up |
| significant space (at least not compared to the ~700kB ``ldconfig`` binary), and they |
| might be needed in case ``ldconfig`` is installable, so they are left |
| in place after the image is built. Technically it would be possible to |
| remove them if desired, though it would not be trivial if you still |
| wanted the build-time ldconfig to function (:term:`ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND` |
| will not work as ``ldconfig`` is run after the functions referred to |
| by that variable). |
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| .. _migration-3.2-virgl: |
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| Host DRI drivers now used for GL support within ``runqemu`` |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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| ``runqemu`` now uses the mesa-native libraries everywhere virgl is used |
| (i.e. when ``gl``, ``gl-es`` or ``egl-headless`` options are specified), |
| but instructs them to load DRI drivers from the host. Unfortunately this |
| may not work well with proprietary graphics drivers such as those from |
| Nvidia; if you are using such drivers then you may need to switch to an |
| alternative (such as Nouveau in the case of Nvidia hardware) or avoid |
| using the GL options. |
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| .. _migration-3.2-initramfs-suffix: |
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| initramfs images now use a blank suffix |
| --------------------------------------- |
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| The reference initramfs images (``core-image-minimal-initramfs``, |
| ``core-image-tiny-initramfs`` and ``core-image-testmaster-initramfs``) now |
| set an empty string for :term:`IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX`, which otherwise defaults |
| to ``".rootfs"``. These images aren't root filesystems and thus the rootfs |
| label didn't make sense. If you are looking for the output files generated |
| by these image recipes directly then you will need to adapt to the new |
| naming without the ``.rootfs`` part. |
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| .. _migration-3.2-image-artifact-names: |
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| Image artifact name variables now centralised in image-artifact-names class |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| The defaults for the following image artifact name variables have been moved |
| from ``bitbake.conf`` to a new ``image-artifact-names`` class: |
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| - :term:`IMAGE_BASENAME` |
| - :term:`IMAGE_LINK_NAME` |
| - :term:`IMAGE_NAME` |
| - :term:`IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX` |
| - :term:`IMAGE_VERSION_SUFFIX` |
| |
| Image-related classes now inherit this class, and typically these variables |
| are only referenced within image recipes so those will be unaffected by this |
| change. However if you have references to these variables in either a recipe |
| that is not an image or a class that is enabled globally, then those will |
| now need to be changed to ``inherit image-artifact-names``. |
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| .. _migration-3.2-misc: |
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| Miscellaneous changes |
| --------------------- |
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| - Support for the long-deprecated ``PACKAGE_GROUP`` variable has now been removed - replace any remaining instances with :term:`FEATURE_PACKAGES`. |
| - The ``FILESPATHPKG`` variable, having been previously deprecated, has now been removed. Replace any remaining references with appropriate use of :term:`FILESEXTRAPATHS`. |
| - Erroneous use of ``inherit +=`` (instead of ``INHERIT +=``) in a configuration file now triggers an error instead of silently being ignored. |
| - ptest support has been removed from the ``kbd`` recipe, as upstream has moved to autotest which is difficult to work with in a cross-compilation environment. |
| - ``oe.utils.is_machine_specific()`` and ``oe.utils.machine_paths()`` have been removed as their utility was questionable. In the unlikely event that you have references to these in your own code, then the code will need to be reworked. |
| - The ``i2ctransfer`` module is now disabled by default when building ``busybox`` in order to be consistent with disabling the other i2c tools there. If you do wish the i2ctransfer module to be built in BusyBox then add ``CONFIG_I2CTRANSFER=y`` to your custom BusyBox configuration. |
| - In the ``Upstream-Status`` header convention for patches, ``Accepted`` has been replaced with ``Backport`` as these almost always mean the same thing i.e. the patch is already upstream and may need to be removed in a future recipe upgrade. If you are adding these headers to your own patches then use ``Backport`` to indicate that the patch has been sent upstream. |
| - The ``tune-supersparc.inc`` tune file has been removed as it does not appear to be widely used and no longer works. |