Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] bitbake-setup: pass install-buildtools options from config and CLI

On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 at 14:19, Jaipaul Cheernam via
lists.openembedded.org
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Allow distro-specific buildtools to be configured with a custom URL,
> filename, and SDK name via an install-buildtools section in
> config-upstream.json. Expose the same options as CLI arguments: --url,
> --filename, --sdk-name, --no-check. CLI arguments take precedence over
> config values.
>
> This requires the --sdk-name option to be available in
> oe-scripts/install-buildtools from openembedded-core.

Can you please describe the use case? Presumably this is useful in
your environment, I'd like to understand the specifics of what you put
in the custom buildtools archive and why it has to be there and not
built via recipes.

Alex