Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] openssh: add variable for key path

Antonin Godard
2026-01-29T11:18:06Z

Hi,

On Sun Jan 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM CET, Patrick Vogelaar via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> This patch adds a variable for the key directory path. This is especially
> useful when working with a read-only file system where you want to
> specify the location e.g. on a r/w partition. To be consistent, the
> change was also done for the read write path.
>
> For changing the path simply create a bbappend and override the
> variable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Vogelaar <patrick.vogelaar.dev@mailbox.org>
> ---
> .../openssh/openssh_10.2p1.bb | 16 ++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_10.2p1.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_10.2p1.bb
> index 866129573f..d8ea487ae3 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_10.2p1.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_10.2p1.bb
> @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PATH_PASSWD_PROG=${bindir}/passwd"
> # We don't want to depend on libblockfile
> CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_header_maillock_h=no"
>
> +# This allows overriding the key location
> +OPENSSH_HOST_KEY_DIR_READONLY_CONFIG ?= "/var/run/ssh"
> +OPENSSH_HOST_KEY_DIR ?= "/etc/ssh"

Thanks for the patch, it was merged in master. As a follow-up, could you
send patches to document these variables in
https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs/tree/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst?

And add a note here
https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs/tree/documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-6.0.rst#n24?

Thanks!
Antonin

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Antonin Godard, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering