meta-security and DISTRO_FEATURES

[George Liu]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 11:41 PM Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 09:32:45AM -0600, Bills, Jason M wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am getting a warning about meta-security when building:
> > WARNING: You have included the meta-security layer, but 'security' has
> > not been enabled in your DISTRO_FEATURES. Some bbappend files and
> > preferred version setting may not take effect. See the meta-security
> > README for details on enabling security support.
> >
> > I checked in the README and it recommends adding 'DISTRO_FEATURES_append
> > = " security"' to a config file to enable all the security features.
> >
> > I did a quick grep on our layers and don't see that added anywhere.
> > Does anyone know if this is something that we need or want to enable?
> > If so, should we enable it in a common layer or will each individual
> > layer decide whether to enable it?
>
> There is this pending commit to handle it at a meta-phosphor level.  I think
> we're just waiting on a minor spelling fix in the variable name upstream.
>
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/openbmc/+/45322

Yup, We have pushed a new patch to fix it.
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel/message/92437

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> Patrick Williams