network in build

[Stephen Ecker]

one of the packages I'm attempting to install downloads files and is unable to resolve the hostnames...  does the build environment not have access to networking?  How can I make this work? 

The package is ttf-mscorefonts-installer

thanks

[Heinisch, Alexander]

On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 07:41 -0700, Stephen Ecker wrote:
> one of the packages I'm attempting to install downloads files and is
> unable to resolve the hostnames...  does the build environment not
> have access to networking?  How can I make this work? 

Network in the build system is only available for do_fetch by default.
You can enable it for a specific task by setting do_mytask[network] =
'1'

from the bitbake manual [1]:
```
[network]: When set to “1”, allows a task to access the network. By
default, only the do_fetch task is granted network access. Recipes
shouldn’t access the network outside of do_fetch as it usually
undermines fetcher source mirroring, image and licence manifests,
software auditing and supply chain security.
```

[1]: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/dev/singleindex.html

BR Alexander

>
> The package is ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> thanks

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Alexander Heinisch
Siemens AG
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