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authorPatrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>2024-07-12 18:58:04 +0300
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@@ -205,9 +205,14 @@ history, see the
The OpenEmbedded build system does not maintain :term:`PR` information as
part of the shared state (sstate) packages. If you maintain an sstate
feed, it's expected that either all your building systems that
- contribute to the sstate feed use a shared PR Service, or you do not
- run a PR Service on any of your building systems. Having some systems
- use a PR Service while others do not leads to obvious problems.
+ contribute to the sstate feed use a shared PR service, or you do not
+ run a PR service on any of your building systems.
+
+ That's because if you had multiple machines sharing a PR service but
+ not their sstate feed, you could end up with "diverging" hashes for
+ the same output artefacts. When presented to the share PR service,
+ each would be considered as new and would increase the revision
+ number, causing many unnecessary package upgrades.
For more information on shared state, see the
":ref:`overview-manual/concepts:shared state cache`"
@@ -365,7 +370,7 @@ For more examples that show how to use ``do_split_packages``, see the
directory of the ``poky`` :ref:`source repository <overview-manual/development-environment:yocto project source repositories>`. You can
also find examples in ``meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass``.
-Following is a reference that shows ``do_split_packages`` mandatory and
+Here is a reference that shows ``do_split_packages`` mandatory and
optional arguments::
Mandatory arguments
@@ -607,6 +612,13 @@ subsequent sections are necessary to configure the target. You should
set these variables before building the image in order to produce a
correctly configured image.
+.. note::
+
+ Your image will need enough free storage space to run package upgrades,
+ especially if many of them need to be downloaded at the same time.
+ You should make sure images are created with enough free space
+ by setting the :term:`IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE` variable.
+
When your build is complete, your packages reside in the
``${TMPDIR}/deploy/packageformat`` directory. For example, if
``${``\ :term:`TMPDIR`\ ``}`` is
@@ -1123,7 +1135,7 @@ The ``devtool edit-recipe`` command lets you take a look at the recipe::
...
LICENSE:${PN}-vary = "MIT"
-Here are three key points in the previous example:
+Three key points in the previous example are:
- :term:`SRC_URI` uses the NPM
scheme so that the NPM fetcher is used.