title: bitbake SRC_URI file://
body: <p>If I have a tarball, helloworld.tar.gz in a local directory, say /home/user/tarballs/, how can I make my bitbake recipe fetch from that directory?</p>
  
  <p>my helloworld.bb is </p>
  
  <pre><code>SECTION = "examples"
  LICENSE = "Proprietary"
  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING; md5=1b1b8016e15e07a2fec59623ebf12345"
  
  SRC_URI = "file://helloworld.tar.gz"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when I bitbake, I get the below warning message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>WARNING: Unable to get checksum for helloworld SRC_URI entry helloworld.tar.gz: file could not be found
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I read something about FILES and FILESEXTRAPATHS can influence the download path but not sure where/how to set them.  </p>
  
  <p>I did a bitbake -c show FILESEXTRAPATHS but get an error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'FILESEXTRAPATHS'
  </code></pre>