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diff --git a/poky/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst b/poky/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst index 6ba792d3f9..729aa259e0 100644 --- a/poky/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst +++ b/poky/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst @@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ about the variable flags (varflags) that help control archive creation. ``autotools*.bbclass`` ====================== -The ``autotools*`` classes support Autotooled packages. +The ``autotools*`` classes support packages built with the +`GNU Autotools <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Autotools>`__. The ``autoconf``, ``automake``, and ``libtool`` packages bring standardization. This class defines a set of tasks (e.g. ``configure``, @@ -576,6 +577,14 @@ Finally, here is an example that sets the root password:: usermod -p '${PASSWD}' root; \ " +.. note:: + + From a security perspective, hardcoding a default password is not + generally a good idea or even legal in some jurisdictions. It is + recommended that you do not do this if you are building a production + image. + + .. _ref-classes-features_check: ``features_check.bbclass`` @@ -1032,6 +1041,11 @@ Here are the tests you can list with the :term:`WARN_QA` and cases, such as dynamically loaded modules, these symlinks are needed instead in the main package. +- ``empty-dirs:`` Checks that packages are not installing files to + directories that are normally expected to be empty (such as ``/tmp``) + The list of directories that are checked is specified by the + :term:`QA_EMPTY_DIRS` variable. + - ``file-rdeps:`` Checks that file-level dependencies identified by the OpenEmbedded build system at packaging time are satisfied. For example, a shell script might start with the line ``#!/bin/bash``. |