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Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects - Second Edition
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Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects - Second Edition

by Otavio Salvador, Daiane Angolini
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
162 pages
4h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding the BitBake tool

The BitBake task scheduler started as a fork from Portage, which is the package management system used in the Gentoo distribution. However, the two projects have diverged a lot due to different usage focuses. The Yocto Project and the OpenEmbedded Project are the most well-known and intensive users of BitBake, which remains a separate and independent project with its own development cycle and mailing list (bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org).

As presented in Chapter 1, Meeting the Yocto Project, BitBake is a task scheduler that parses Python and the shell script mixed code. Based on the metadata, BitBake generates a large number of tasks that may have a complex dependency chain, so BitBake is responsible for ...

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