Thanks Erik, guess that could work to and seems cleaner than the env variables.
It still leaves the question how to move that content into a static file. For example if in the end the recipe should install a file with "super secret" as the content. Example on the device at runtime: cat /etc/config-passwords super secret The only idea that come to mind is to do something like in the recipe: set_secrets() { echo ${MYSECRETKEY} > ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/config-passwords } ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += " set_secrets;" But that seems like a bad practice because it "globalizes" the recipe logic. It's no longer a matter of that recipe but something applied to the whole rootfs. Be Well, Alan On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:09 PM Erik Botö <erik.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:55 PM Alan Martinovic > <alan.martino...@senic.com> wrote: > > Seems like conf/local.conf could also offer a solution given that it's > > a temporary > > thing (per build setup), but didn't yet figure out a good mechanism. > > You could have a variable in the recipe and override that value in local.conf. > > Let's say your recipe is called myexample_git.bb in which you add > something like this: > MYSECRETKEY ?= "" > > Then this could be assigned from local.conf using something like: > MYSECRETKEY_pn-myexample = "super secret" > > Cheers, > Erik -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto