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Grasping the BitBake Tool
In the previous chapter, we learned about metadata, metadata collection concepts, and the importance of conf/layer.conf. In this chapter, we will examine metadata more deeply, understand how recipes depend on each other, and see how BitBake deals with dependencies.
In addition, we will cover a massive list of tasks, from downloading source code to generating images and other artifacts. Some examples of these tasks are storing the source code in the directory used for the build, patching, configuring, compiling, installing, and generating packages, and determining how the packages fit into the generated images, which we will introduce in this chapter.
Parsing metadata
Usually, our projects include multiple layers that ...
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