bitbake: doc: bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables: document BB_USE_HOME_NPMRC

(Bitbake rev: d5562e007c7c64e8613a118ab9a6c73ed2063263)

Signed-off-by: Eric Meyers <eric.meyers@arthrex.com>
Cc: Geoff Parker <geoffrey.parker@arthrex.com>
Cc: Chuck Wolber <chuckwolber@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
index dd8cf2409a..477443e228 100644
--- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
+++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
@@ -707,6 +707,12 @@ overview of their function and contents.
       Within an executing task, this variable holds the hash of the task as
       returned by the currently enabled signature generator.
 
+   :term:`BB_USE_HOME_NPMRC`
+      Controls whether or not BitBake uses the user's .npmrc file within their
+      home directory within the npm fetcher. This can be used for authentication
+      of private NPM registries, among other uses. This is turned off by default
+      and requires the user to explicitly set it to "1" to enable.
+
    :term:`BB_VERBOSE_LOGS`
       Controls how verbose BitBake is during builds. If set, shell scripts
       echo commands and shell script output appears on standard out