November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
162 pages
4h 8m
English
The dependency relation between recipes is essential to BitBake and Poky. It is defined inside each recipe file, with a variable that describes on what a recipe depends (DEPENDS) and what a recipe provides to the system (PROVIDES). These two variables together build the dependency graph used by BitBake during dependency resolution.
So, if a recipe called foo_1.0.bb depends on bar, BitBake lists all recipes providing bar. The bar dependency can be satisfied by the following:
A dependency can be satisfied by several recipes (for example, if two or more recipes have PROVIDES += "bar" ...
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