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Subject: Re: yocto ref manual: confusion between BB_ENV_WHITELIST and BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE
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On Saturday 10 March 2012 08:59:02 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   from section B.5 of yocto ref manual:
> 
> Tell BitBake to load what you want from the environment into the data
> store. You can do so through the BB_ENV_WHITELIST variable. For
> example, assume you want to prevent the build system from accessing
> your $HOME/.ccache directory. The following command tells BitBake to
> load CCACHE_DIR from the environment into the data store:
> 
>      export BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE="$BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE CCACHE_DIR"
> 
>   i think you can see how that might confuse the reader.

Looks like this still needs to be addressed. Scott, would you mind taking a 
look at this? Seems to me that BB_ENV_WHITELIST just ought to be changed to 
BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE to make this make sense.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre