Re: [OE-core] any *compelling* reasons to whitelist env vars for an OE build?

2021-03-25 Thread Christopher Larson
Just a quick note that you *can* script config file alterations without having to alter files that may be under source control, that's what auto.conf is for :) On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 7:51 AM Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, Mike Looijmans wrote: > > > I for one use a whitelist

Re: [OE-core] any *compelling* reasons to whitelist env vars for an OE build?

2021-03-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, Mike Looijmans wrote: > I for one use a whitelist env vars daily, both hobby and work. > > We tend to build for multiple machines, so in general we'd have > something like this running on the build server: > > for machine in mach1 mach2 mach3 mach4 ... mach40 > do >

Re: [OE-core] any *compelling* reasons to whitelist env vars for an OE build?

2021-03-25 Thread Mike Looijmans
I for one use a whitelist env vars daily, both hobby and work. We tend to build for multiple machines, so in general we'd have something like this running on the build server: for machine in mach1 mach2 mach3 mach4 ... mach40 do MACHINE=$machine bitbake image1 image2 image3 done Being

Re: [OE-core] any *compelling* reasons to whitelist env vars for an OE build?

2021-03-25 Thread Mark Hatle
On 3/25/21 9:08 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > kind of a philosophical question, but i'm having a discussion with > some new colleagues about how to customize an OE (actually, wind river > linux) build, and these colleagues have, until now, used (whitelisted) > environment variables to pass

[OE-core] any *compelling* reasons to whitelist env vars for an OE build?

2021-03-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
kind of a philosophical question, but i'm having a discussion with some new colleagues about how to customize an OE (actually, wind river linux) build, and these colleagues have, until now, used (whitelisted) environment variables to pass info to the build, that info being used to specify