From patchwork Wed Apr 5 10:12:48 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Michael Opdenacker X-Patchwork-Id: 22257 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E41C76188 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2023 10:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (relay9-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.199]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.126266.1680689582635273881 for ; Wed, 05 Apr 2023 03:13:03 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@bootlin.com header.s=gm1 header.b=RDWvGz43; spf=pass (domain: bootlin.com, ip: 217.70.183.199, mailfrom: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) Received: (Authenticated sender: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6390BFF80B; Wed, 5 Apr 2023 10:13:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=gm1; t=1680689580; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wM4510wnuaTVIvx5RBreOepkK8Db9qNFAF6OHcOlpFA=; b=RDWvGz43TErlClDq+4L6jT0EMhIjeyHjruzXZeLIeE87tUQartf/lNXB4/ZtqRfG4lS7VD XzXIUu/NvTUyLqBmadr2/KAup4rNAlqtrW8mXywDacRy4x0IynEtMIzcRxy/9kbbxmJaqp 4uhmWQ23SR+1m9ytwLNuQybN9u9WTBxdVeDC63sZpvUhkoJEkbBMv0/FQmWa6xlDlb1d2f oANA2p9K8GiAOnU71q7NeQ83eGRUrZgQzF1g+3XHqzNtIoLgtgDt3CtM+5E1Cf0jkpY6FD fTjqnIMsGSSkpvI/Cf0t4kMjCU4TyibR+8shlRtek2Q2i3I2qR7KDrGWqOPUJQ== From: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org Cc: Michael Opdenacker , Trevor Woerner Subject: [PATCH] ref-manual: variables: document VOLATILE_TMP_DIR Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 12:12:48 +0200 Message-Id: <20230405101248.203432-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from li982-79.members.linode.com [45.33.32.79] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Wed, 05 Apr 2023 10:13:07 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/3824 From: Michael Opdenacker Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker CC: Trevor Woerner --- documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst index c787a17937..62f28bd278 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst @@ -9387,6 +9387,18 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents. file is not persistent. You can override this setting by setting the variable to "no" to make the log directory persistent. + :term:`VOLATILE_TMP_DIR` + Specifies the persistence of the target's ``/tmp`` directory. + + By default, :term:`VOLATILE_TMP_DIR` is set to "yes", in which case + ``/tmp`` links to a directory which resides in RAM in a ``tmpfs`` + filesystem. + + If instead, you want the ``/tmp`` directory to be persistent, set the + variable to "no" to make it a regular directory in the root filesystem. + + This supports both sysvinit and systemd based systems. + :term:`WARN_QA` Specifies the quality assurance checks whose failures are reported as warnings by the OpenEmbedded build system. You set this variable in