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1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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1Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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1.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
2.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
3.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
4.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
5.TH BITBAKE 1 "November 19, 2006"
6.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
7.\"
8.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
9.\" .nh disable hyphenation
10.\" .hy enable hyphenation
11.\" .ad l left justify
12.\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins
13.\" .nf disable filling
14.\" .fi enable filling
15.\" .br insert line break
16.\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines
17.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7)
18.SH NAME
19BitBake \- simple tool for the execution of tasks
20.SH SYNOPSIS
21.B bitbake
22.RI [ options ] " packagenames"
23.br
24.SH DESCRIPTION
25This manual page documents briefly the
26.B bitbake
27command.
28.PP
29.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
30.\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics,
31.\" respectively.
32\fBbitbake\fP is a program that executes the specified task (default is 'build')
33for a given set of BitBake files.
34.br
35It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space separated list of files to
36be executed. BBFILES does support wildcards.
37.br
38Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.
39.SH OPTIONS
40This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
41options starting with two dashes (`-').
42.TP
43.B \-h, \-\-help
44Show summary of options.
45.TP
46.B \-\-version
47Show version of program.
48.TP
49.B \-bBUILDFILE, \-\-buildfile=BUILDFILE
50execute the task against this .bb file, rather than a package from BBFILES.
51.TP
52.B \-k, \-\-continue
53continue as much as possible after an error. While the target that failed, and
54those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the other dependencies of these
55targets can be processed all the same.
56.TP
57.B \-a, \-\-tryaltconfigs
58continue with builds by trying to use alternative providers where possible.
59.TP
60.B \-f, \-\-force
61force run of specified cmd, regardless of stamp status
62.TP
63.B \-i, \-\-interactive
64drop into the interactive mode also called the BitBake shell.
65.TP
66.B \-cCMD, \-\-cmd=CMD
67Specify task to execute. Note that this only executes the specified task for
68the providee and the packages it depends on, i.e. 'compile' does not implicitly
69call stage for the dependencies (IOW: use only if you know what you are doing).
70Depending on the base.bbclass a listtasks task is defined and will show
71available tasks.
72.TP
73.B \-rFILE, \-\-read=FILE
74read the specified file before bitbake.conf
75.TP
76.B \-v, \-\-verbose
77output more chit-chat to the terminal
78.TP
79.B \-D, \-\-debug
80Increase the debug level. You can specify this more than once.
81.TP
82.B \-n, \-\-dry-run
83don't execute, just go through the motions
84.TP
85.B \-p, \-\-parse-only
86quit after parsing the BB files (developers only)
87.TP
88.B \-s, \-\-show-versions
89show current and preferred versions of all packages
90.TP
91.B \-e, \-\-environment
92show the global or per-package environment (this is what used to be bbread)
93.TP
94.B \-g, \-\-graphviz
95emit the dependency trees of the specified packages in the dot syntax
96.TP
97.B \-IIGNORED\_DOT\_DEPS, \-\-ignore-deps=IGNORED_DOT_DEPS
98Stop processing at the given list of dependencies when generating dependency
99graphs. This can help to make the graph more appealing
100.TP
101.B \-lDEBUG_DOMAINS, \-\-log-domains=DEBUG_DOMAINS
102Show debug logging for the specified logging domains
103.TP
104.B \-P, \-\-profile
105profile the command and print a report
106.TP
107.B \-uUI, \-\-ui=UI
108User interface to use. Currently, hob, depexp, goggle or ncurses can be specified as UI.
109.TP
110.B \-tSERVERTYPE, \-\-servertype=SERVERTYPE
111Choose which server to use, none, process or xmlrpc.
112.TP
113.B \-\-revisions-changed
114Set the exit code depending on whether upstream floating revisions have changed or not.
115.TP
116.B \-\-server-only
117Run bitbake without UI, the frontend can connect with bitbake server itself.
118.TP
119.B \-BBIND, \-\-bind=BIND
120The name/address for the bitbake server to bind to.
121.TP
122.B \-\-no\-setscene
123Do not run any setscene tasks, forces builds.
124
125.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
126bitbake uses the following environment variables to control its
127operation:
128.TP
129.B BITBAKE_UI
130The bitbake user interface; overridden by the \fB-u\fP commandline option.
131
132.SH AUTHORS
133BitBake was written by
134Phil Blundell,
135Holger Freyther,
136Chris Larson,
137Mickey Lauer,
138Richard Purdie,
139Holger Schurig
140.PP
141This manual page was written by Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin@hrw.one.pl>
142for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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1topdir = .
2manual = $(topdir)/usermanual.xml
3# types = pdf txt rtf ps xhtml html man tex texi dvi
4# types = pdf txt
5types = $(xmltotypes) $(htmltypes)
6xmltotypes = pdf txt
7htmltypes = html xhtml
8htmlxsl = $(if $(filter $@,$(foreach type,$(htmltypes),$(type)-nochunks)),http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl,http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/$@/chunk.xsl)
9htmlcssfile = docbook.css
10htmlcss = $(topdir)/html.css
11# htmlcssfile =
12# htmlcss =
13cleanfiles = $(foreach i,$(types),$(topdir)/$(i))
14
15ifdef DEBUG
16define command
17 $(1)
18endef
19else
20define command
21 @echo $(2) $(3) $(4)
22 @$(1) >/dev/null
23endef
24endif
25
26all: $(types)
27
28lint: $(manual) FORCE
29 $(call command,xmllint --xinclude --postvalid --noout $(manual),XMLLINT $(manual))
30
31$(types) $(foreach type,$(htmltypes),$(type)-nochunks): lint FORCE
32
33$(foreach type,$(htmltypes),$(type)-nochunks): $(if $(htmlcss),$(htmlcss)) $(manual)
34 @mkdir -p $@
35ifdef htmlcss
36 $(call command,install -m 0644 $(htmlcss) $@/$(htmlcssfile),CP $(htmlcss) $@/$(htmlcssfile))
37endif
38 $(call command,xsltproc --stringparam base.dir $@/ $(if $(htmlcssfile),--stringparam html.stylesheet $(htmlcssfile)) $(htmlxsl) $(manual) > $@/index.$(patsubst %-nochunks,%,$@),XSLTPROC $@ $(manual))
39
40$(htmltypes): $(if $(htmlcss),$(htmlcss)) $(manual)
41 @mkdir -p $@
42ifdef htmlcss
43 $(call command,install -m 0644 $(htmlcss) $@/$(htmlcssfile),CP $(htmlcss) $@/$(htmlcssfile))
44endif
45 $(call command,xsltproc --stringparam base.dir $@/ $(if $(htmlcssfile),--stringparam html.stylesheet $(htmlcssfile)) $(htmlxsl) $(manual),XSLTPROC $@ $(manual))
46
47$(xmltotypes): $(manual)
48 $(call command,xmlto --with-dblatex --extensions -o $(topdir)/$@ $@ $(manual),XMLTO $@ $(manual))
49
50clean:
51 rm -rf $(cleanfiles)
52
53$(foreach i,$(types) $(foreach type,$(htmltypes),$(type)-nochunks),clean-$(i)):
54 rm -rf $(patsubst clean-%,%,$@)
55
56FORCE:
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1/* Feuille de style DocBook du projet Traduc.org */
2/* DocBook CSS stylesheet of the Traduc.org project */
3
4/* (c) Jean-Philippe Guérard - 14 août 2004 */
5/* (c) Jean-Philippe Guérard - 14 August 2004 */
6
7/* Cette feuille de style est libre, vous pouvez la */
8/* redistribuer et la modifier selon les termes de la Licence */
9/* Art Libre. Vous trouverez un exemplaire de cette Licence sur */
10/* http://tigreraye.org/Petit-guide-du-traducteur.html#licence-art-libre */
11
12/* This work of art is free, you can redistribute it and/or */
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1<?xml version="1.0"?>
2<!--
3 ex:ts=4:sw=4:sts=4:et
4 -*- tab-width: 4; c-basic-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-
5-->
6<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
7 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
8<book>
9 <bookinfo>
10 <title>BitBake User Manual</title>
11 <authorgroup>
12 <corpauthor>BitBake Team</corpauthor>
13 </authorgroup>
14 <copyright>
15 <year>2004, 2005, 2006, 2011</year>
16 <holder>Chris Larson</holder>
17 <holder>Phil Blundell</holder>
18 <holder>Richard Purdie</holder>
19 </copyright>
20 <legalnotice>
21 <para>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. To view a copy of this license, visit <ulink url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/</ulink> or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.</para>
22 </legalnotice>
23 </bookinfo>
24 <chapter>
25 <title>Introduction</title>
26 <section>
27 <title>Overview</title>
28 <para>BitBake is, at its simplest, a tool for executing
29tasks and managing metadata. As such, its similarities to GNU make and other
30build tools are readily apparent. It was inspired by Portage, the package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution. BitBake is the basis of the <ulink url="http://www.openembedded.org/">OpenEmbedded</ulink> project, which is being used to build and maintain a number of embedded Linux distributions/projects such as Angstrom and the Yocto project.</para>
31 </section>
32 <section>
33 <title>Background and goals</title>
34 <para>Prior to BitBake, no other build tool adequately met
35the needs of an aspiring embedded Linux distribution. All of the
36buildsystems used by traditional desktop Linux distributions lacked
37important functionality, and none of the ad-hoc
38<emphasis>buildroot</emphasis> systems, prevalent in the
39embedded space, were scalable or maintainable.</para>
40
41 <para>Some important original goals for BitBake were:
42 <itemizedlist>
43 <listitem><para>Handle crosscompilation.</para></listitem>
44 <listitem><para>Handle interpackage dependencies (build time on target architecture, build time on native architecture, and runtime).</para></listitem>
45 <listitem><para>Support running any number of tasks within a given package, including, but not limited to, fetching upstream sources, unpacking them, patching them, configuring them, et cetera.</para></listitem>
46 <listitem><para>Must be Linux distribution agnostic (both build and target).</para></listitem>
47 <listitem><para>Must be architecture agnostic</para></listitem>
48 <listitem><para>Must support multiple build and target operating systems (including Cygwin, the BSDs, etc).</para></listitem>
49 <listitem><para>Must be able to be self contained, rather than tightly integrated into the build machine's root filesystem.</para></listitem>
50 <listitem><para>There must be a way to handle conditional metadata (on target architecture, operating system, distribution, machine).</para></listitem>
51 <listitem><para>It must be easy for the person using the tools to supply their own local metadata and packages to operate against.</para></listitem>
52 <listitem><para>Must make it easy to collaborate
53between multiple projects using BitBake for their
54builds.</para></listitem>
55 <listitem><para>Should provide an inheritance mechanism to
56share common metadata between many packages.</para></listitem>
57 </itemizedlist>
58 </para>
59 <para>Over time it has become apparent that some further requirements were necessary:
60 <itemizedlist>
61 <listitem><para>Handle variants of a base recipe (native, sdk, multilib).</para></listitem>
62 <listitem><para>Able to split metadata into layers and allow layers to override each other.</para></listitem>
63 <listitem><para>Allow representation of a given set of input variables to a task as a checksum.</para></listitem>
64 <listitem><para>based on that checksum, allow acceleration of builds with prebuilt components.</para></listitem>
65 </itemizedlist>
66 </para>
67
68 <para>BitBake satisfies all the original requirements and many more with extensions being made to the basic functionality to reflect the additionl requirements. Flexibility and power have always been the priorities. It is highly extensible, supporting embedded Python code and execution of any arbitrary tasks.</para>
69 </section>
70 </chapter>
71 <chapter>
72 <title>Metadata</title>
73 <section>
74 <title>Description</title>
75 <itemizedlist>
76 <para>BitBake metadata can be classified into 3 major areas:</para>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>Configuration Files</para>
79 </listitem>
80 <listitem>
81 <para>.bb Files</para>
82 </listitem>
83 <listitem>
84 <para>Classes</para>
85 </listitem>
86 </itemizedlist>
87 <para>What follows are a large number of examples of BitBake metadata. Any syntax which isn't supported in any of the aforementioned areas will be documented as such.</para>
88 <section>
89 <title>Basic variable setting</title>
90 <para><screen><varname>VARIABLE</varname> = "value"</screen></para>
91 <para>In this example, <varname>VARIABLE</varname> is <literal>value</literal>.</para>
92 </section>
93 <section>
94 <title>Variable expansion</title>
95 <para>BitBake supports variables referencing one another's contents using a syntax which is similar to shell scripting</para>
96 <para><screen><varname>A</varname> = "aval"
97<varname>B</varname> = "pre${A}post"</screen></para>
98 <para>This results in <varname>A</varname> containing <literal>aval</literal> and <varname>B</varname> containing <literal>preavalpost</literal>.</para>
99 </section>
100 <section>
101 <title>Setting a default value (?=)</title>
102 <para><screen><varname>A</varname> ?= "aval"</screen></para>
103 <para>If <varname>A</varname> is set before the above is called, it will retain its previous value. If <varname>A</varname> is unset prior to the above call, <varname>A</varname> will be set to <literal>aval</literal>. Note that this assignment is immediate, so if there are multiple ?= assignments to a single variable, the first of those will be used.</para>
104 </section>
105 <section>
106 <title>Setting a weak default value (??=)</title>
107 <para><screen><varname>A</varname> ??= "somevalue"
108<varname>A</varname> ??= "someothervalue"</screen></para>
109 <para>If <varname>A</varname> is set before the above, it will retain that value. If <varname>A</varname> is unset prior to the above, <varname>A</varname> will be set to <literal>someothervalue</literal>. This is a lazy/weak assignment in that the assignment does not occur until the end of the parsing process, so that the last, rather than the first, ??= assignment to a given variable will be used. Any other setting of A using = or ?= will however override the value set with ??=</para>
110 </section>
111 <section>
112 <title>Immediate variable expansion (:=)</title>
113 <para>:= results in a variable's contents being expanded immediately, rather than when the variable is actually used.</para>
114 <para><screen><varname>T</varname> = "123"
115<varname>A</varname> := "${B} ${A} test ${T}"
116<varname>T</varname> = "456"
117<varname>B</varname> = "${T} bval"
118
119<varname>C</varname> = "cval"
120<varname>C</varname> := "${C}append"</screen></para>
121 <para>In that example, <varname>A</varname> would contain <literal> test 123</literal>, <varname>B</varname> would contain <literal>456 bval</literal>, and <varname>C</varname> would be <literal>cvalappend</literal>.</para>
122 </section>
123 <section>
124 <title>Appending (+=) and prepending (=+)</title>
125 <para><screen><varname>B</varname> = "bval"
126<varname>B</varname> += "additionaldata"
127<varname>C</varname> = "cval"
128<varname>C</varname> =+ "test"</screen></para>
129 <para>In this example, <varname>B</varname> is now <literal>bval additionaldata</literal> and <varname>C</varname> is <literal>test cval</literal>.</para>
130 </section>
131 <section>
132 <title>Appending (.=) and prepending (=.) without spaces</title>
133 <para><screen><varname>B</varname> = "bval"
134<varname>B</varname> .= "additionaldata"
135<varname>C</varname> = "cval"
136<varname>C</varname> =. "test"</screen></para>
137 <para>In this example, <varname>B</varname> is now <literal>bvaladditionaldata</literal> and <varname>C</varname> is <literal>testcval</literal>. In contrast to the above appending and prepending operators, no additional space
138will be introduced.</para>
139 </section>
140 <section>
141 <title>Appending and Prepending (override style syntax)</title>
142 <para><screen><varname>B</varname> = "bval"
143<varname>B_append</varname> = " additional data"
144<varname>C</varname> = "cval"
145<varname>C_prepend</varname> = "additional data "</screen></para>
146 <para>This example results in <varname>B</varname> becoming <literal>bval additional data</literal>
147and <varname>C</varname> becoming <literal>additional data cval</literal>. Note the spaces in the append.
148Unlike the += operator, additional space is not automatically added. You must take steps to add space
149yourself.</para>
150 </section>
151 <section>
152 <title>Removing (override style syntax)</title>
153 <para><screen><varname>FOO</varname> = "123 456 789 123456 123 456 123 456"
154<varname>FOO_remove</varname> = "123"
155<varname>FOO_remove</varname> = "456"</screen></para>
156 <para>In this example, <varname>FOO</varname> is now <literal>789 123456</literal>.</para>
157 </section>
158 <section>
159 <title>Conditional metadata set</title>
160 <para>OVERRIDES is a <quote>:</quote> separated variable containing each item you want to satisfy conditions. So, if you have a variable which is conditional on <quote>arm</quote>, and <quote>arm</quote> is in OVERRIDES, then the <quote>arm</quote> specific version of the variable is used rather than the non-conditional version. Example:</para>
161 <para><screen><varname>OVERRIDES</varname> = "architecture:os:machine"
162<varname>TEST</varname> = "defaultvalue"
163<varname>TEST_os</varname> = "osspecificvalue"
164<varname>TEST_condnotinoverrides</varname> = "othercondvalue"</screen></para>
165 <para>In this example, <varname>TEST</varname> would be <literal>osspecificvalue</literal>, due to the condition <quote>os</quote> being in <varname>OVERRIDES</varname>.</para>
166 </section>
167 <section>
168 <title>Conditional appending</title>
169 <para>BitBake also supports appending and prepending to variables based on whether something is in OVERRIDES. Example:</para>
170 <para><screen><varname>DEPENDS</varname> = "glibc ncurses"
171<varname>OVERRIDES</varname> = "machine:local"
172<varname>DEPENDS_append_machine</varname> = " libmad"</screen></para>
173 <para>In this example, <varname>DEPENDS</varname> is set to <literal>glibc ncurses libmad</literal>.</para>
174 </section>
175 <section>
176 <title>Inclusion</title>
177 <para>Next, there is the <literal>include</literal> directive, which causes BitBake to parse whatever file you specify, and insert it at that location, which is not unlike <command>make</command>. However, if the path specified on the <literal>include</literal> line is a relative path, BitBake will locate the first one it can find within <envar>BBPATH</envar>.</para>
178 </section>
179 <section>
180 <title>Requiring inclusion</title>
181 <para>In contrast to the <literal>include</literal> directive, <literal>require</literal> will
182raise an ParseError if the file to be included cannot be found. Otherwise it will behave just like the <literal>
183include</literal> directive.</para>
184 </section>
185 <section>
186 <title>Python variable expansion</title>
187 <para><screen><varname>DATE</varname> = "${@time.strftime('%Y%m%d',time.gmtime())}"</screen></para>
188 <para>This would result in the <varname>DATE</varname> variable containing today's date.</para>
189 </section>
190 <section>
191 <title>Defining executable metadata</title>
192 <para><emphasis>NOTE:</emphasis> This is only supported in .bb and .bbclass files.</para>
193 <para><screen>do_mytask () {
194 echo "Hello, world!"
195}</screen></para>
196 <para>This is essentially identical to setting a variable, except that this variable happens to be executable shell code.</para>
197 <para><screen>python do_printdate () {
198 import time
199 print time.strftime('%Y%m%d', time.gmtime())
200}</screen></para>
201 <para>This is the similar to the previous, but flags it as Python so that BitBake knows it is Python code.</para>
202 </section>
203 <section>
204 <title>Defining Python functions into the global Python namespace</title>
205 <para><emphasis>NOTE:</emphasis> This is only supported in .bb and .bbclass files.</para>
206 <para><screen>def get_depends(bb, d):
207 if d.getVar('SOMECONDITION', True):
208 return "dependencywithcond"
209 else:
210 return "dependency"
211
212<varname>SOMECONDITION</varname> = "1"
213<varname>DEPENDS</varname> = "${@get_depends(bb, d)}"</screen></para>
214 <para>This would result in <varname>DEPENDS</varname> containing <literal>dependencywithcond</literal>.</para>
215 </section>
216 <section>
217 <title>Variable flags</title>
218 <para>Variables can have associated flags which provide a way of tagging extra information onto a variable. Several flags are used internally by BitBake but they can be used externally too if needed. The standard operations mentioned above also work on flags.</para>
219 <para><screen><varname>VARIABLE</varname>[<varname>SOMEFLAG</varname>] = "value"</screen></para>
220 <para>In this example, <varname>VARIABLE</varname> has a flag, <varname>SOMEFLAG</varname> which is set to <literal>value</literal>.</para>
221 </section>
222 <section>
223 <title>Inheritance</title>
224 <para><emphasis>NOTE:</emphasis> This is only supported in .bb and .bbclass files.</para>
225 <para>The <literal>inherit</literal> directive is a means of specifying what classes of functionality your .bb requires. It is a rudimentary form of inheritance. For example, you can easily abstract out the tasks involved in building a package that uses autoconf and automake, and put that into a bbclass for your packages to make use of. A given bbclass is located by searching for classes/filename.bbclass in <envar>BBPATH</envar>, where filename is what you inherited.</para>
226 </section>
227 <section>
228 <title>Tasks</title>
229 <para><emphasis>NOTE:</emphasis> This is only supported in .bb and .bbclass files.</para>
230 <para>In BitBake, each step that needs to be run for a given .bb is known as a task. There is a command <literal>addtask</literal> to add new tasks (must be a defined Python executable metadata and must start with <quote>do_</quote>) and describe intertask dependencies.</para>
231 <para><screen>python do_printdate () {
232 import time
233 print time.strftime('%Y%m%d', time.gmtime())
234}
235
236addtask printdate before do_build</screen></para>
237 <para>This defines the necessary Python function and adds it as a task which is now a dependency of do_build, the default task. If anyone executes the do_build task, that will result in do_printdate being run first.</para>
238 </section>
239
240 <section>
241 <title>Task Flags</title>
242 <para>Tasks support a number of flags which control various functionality of the task. These are as follows:</para>
243 <para>'dirs' - directories which should be created before the task runs</para>
244 <para>'cleandirs' - directories which should created before the task runs but should be empty</para>
245 <para>'noexec' - marks the tasks as being empty and no execution required. These are used as dependency placeholders or used when added tasks need to be subsequently disabled.</para>
246 <para>'nostamp' - don't generate a stamp file for a task. This means the task is always rexecuted.</para>
247 <para>'fakeroot' - this task needs to be run in a fakeroot environment, obtained by adding the variables in FAKEROOTENV to the environment.</para>
248 <para>'umask' - the umask to run the task under.</para>
249 <para> For the 'deptask', 'rdeptask', 'depends', 'rdepends' and 'recrdeptask' flags please see the dependencies section.</para>
250 </section>
251
252 <section>
253 <title>Events</title>
254 <para><emphasis>NOTE:</emphasis> This is only supported in .bb and .bbclass files.</para>
255 <para>BitBake allows installation of event handlers. Events are triggered at certain points during operation, such as the beginning of operation against a given .bb, the start of a given task, task failure, task success, et cetera. The intent is to make it easy to do things like email notification on build failure.</para>
256 <para><screen>addhandler myclass_eventhandler
257python myclass_eventhandler() {
258 from bb.event import getName
259 from bb import data
260
261 print("The name of the Event is %s" % getName(e))
262 print("The file we run for is %s" % data.getVar('FILE', e.data, True))
263}
264</screen></para><para>
265This event handler gets called every time an event is triggered. A global variable <varname>e</varname> is defined. <varname>e</varname>.data contains an instance of bb.data. With the getName(<varname>e</varname>)
266method one can get the name of the triggered event.</para><para>The above event handler prints the name
267of the event and the content of the <varname>FILE</varname> variable.</para>
268 </section>
269 <section>
270 <title>Variants</title>
271 <para>Two BitBake features exist to facilitate the creation of multiple buildable incarnations from a single recipe file.</para>
272 <para>The first is <varname>BBCLASSEXTEND</varname>. This variable is a space separated list of classes used to "extend" the recipe for each variant. As an example, setting <screen>BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"</screen> results in a second incarnation of the current recipe being available. This second incarnation will have the "native" class inherited.</para>
273 <para>The second feature is <varname>BBVERSIONS</varname>. This variable allows a single recipe to build multiple versions of a project from a single recipe file, and allows you to specify conditional metadata (using the <varname>OVERRIDES</varname> mechanism) for a single version, or an optionally named range of versions:</para>
274 <para><screen>BBVERSIONS = "1.0 2.0 git"
275SRC_URI_git = "git://someurl/somepath.git"</screen></para>
276 <para><screen>BBVERSIONS = "1.0.[0-6]:1.0.0+ \
277 1.0.[7-9]:1.0.7+"
278SRC_URI_append_1.0.7+ = "file://some_patch_which_the_new_versions_need.patch;patch=1"</screen></para>
279 <para>Note that the name of the range will default to the original version of the recipe, so given OE, a recipe file of foo_1.0.0+.bb will default the name of its versions to 1.0.0+. This is useful, as the range name is not only placed into overrides; it's also made available for the metadata to use in the form of the <varname>BPV</varname> variable, for use in file:// search paths (<varname>FILESPATH</varname>).</para>
280 </section>
281 </section>
282
283 <section>
284 <title>Variable interaction: Worked Examples</title>
285 <para>Despite the documentation of the different forms of variable definition above, it can be hard to work out what happens when variable operators are combined. This section documents some common questions people have regarding the way variables interact.</para>
286
287 <section>
288 <title>Override and append ordering</title>
289
290 <para>There is often confusion about which order overrides and the various append operators take effect.</para>
291
292 <para><screen><varname>OVERRIDES</varname> = "foo"
293<varname>A_foo_append</varname> = "X"</screen></para>
294 <para>In this case, X is unconditionally appended to the variable <varname>A_foo</varname>. Since foo is an override, A_foo would then replace <varname>A</varname>.</para>
295
296 <para><screen><varname>OVERRIDES</varname> = "foo"
297<varname>A</varname> = "X"
298<varname>A_append_foo</varname> = "Y"</screen></para>
299 <para>In this case, only when foo is in OVERRIDES, Y is appended to the variable <varname>A</varname> so the value of <varname>A</varname> would become XY (NB: no spaces are appended).</para>
300
301 <para><screen><varname>OVERRIDES</varname> = "foo"
302<varname>A_foo_append</varname> = "X"
303<varname>A_foo_append</varname> += "Y"</screen></para>
304 <para>This behaves as per the first case above, but the value of <varname>A</varname> would be "X Y" instead of just "X".</para>
305
306 <para><screen><varname>A</varname> = "1"
307<varname>A_append</varname> = "2"
308<varname>A_append</varname> = "3"
309<varname>A</varname> += "4"
310<varname>A</varname> .= "5"</screen></para>
311
312 <para>Would ultimately result in <varname>A</varname> taking the value "1 4523" since the _append operator executes at the same time as the expansion of other overrides.</para>
313
314 </section>
315 <section>
316 <title>Key Expansion</title>
317
318 <para>Key expansion happens at the data store finalisation time just before overrides are expanded.</para>
319
320 <para><screen><varname>A${B}</varname> = "X"
321<varname>B</varname> = "2"
322<varname>A2</varname> = "Y"</screen></para>
323 <para>So in this case <varname>A2</varname> would take the value of "X".</para>
324 </section>
325
326 </section>
327 <section>
328 <title>Dependency handling</title>
329 <para>BitBake handles dependencies at the task level since to allow for efficient operation with multiple processed executing in parallel. A robust method of specifying task dependencies is therefore needed. </para>
330 <section>
331 <title>Dependencies internal to the .bb file</title>
332 <para>Where the dependencies are internal to a given .bb file, the dependencies are handled by the previously detailed addtask directive.</para>
333 </section>
334
335 <section>
336 <title>Build Dependencies</title>
337 <para>DEPENDS lists build time dependencies. The 'deptask' flag for tasks is used to signify the task of each item listed in DEPENDS which must have completed before that task can be executed.</para>
338 <para><screen>do_configure[deptask] = "do_populate_staging"</screen></para>
339 <para>means the do_populate_staging task of each item in DEPENDS must have completed before do_configure can execute.</para>
340 </section>
341 <section>
342 <title>Runtime Dependencies</title>
343 <para>The PACKAGES variable lists runtime packages and each of these can have RDEPENDS and RRECOMMENDS runtime dependencies. The 'rdeptask' flag for tasks is used to signify the task of each item runtime dependency which must have completed before that task can be executed.</para>
344 <para><screen>do_package_write[rdeptask] = "do_package"</screen></para>
345 <para>means the do_package task of each item in RDEPENDS must have completed before do_package_write can execute.</para>
346 </section>
347 <section>
348 <title>Recursive Dependencies</title>
349 <para>These are specified with the 'recrdeptask' flag which is used signify the task(s) of dependencies which must have completed before that task can be executed. It works by looking though the build and runtime dependencies of the current recipe as well as any inter-task dependencies the task has, then adding a dependency on the listed task. It will then recurse through the dependencies of those tasks and so on.</para>
350 <para>It may be desireable to recurse not just through the dependencies of those tasks but through the build and runtime dependencies of dependent tasks too. If that is the case, the taskname itself should be referenced in the task list, e.g. do_a[recrdeptask] = "do_a do_b".</para>
351 </section>
352 <section>
353 <title>Inter task</title>
354 <para>The 'depends' flag for tasks is a more generic form of which allows an interdependency on specific tasks rather than specifying the data in DEPENDS.</para>
355 <para><screen>do_patch[depends] = "quilt-native:do_populate_staging"</screen></para>
356 <para>means the do_populate_staging task of the target quilt-native must have completed before the do_patch can execute.</para>
357 <para>The 'rdepends' flag works in a similar way but takes targets in the runtime namespace instead of the build time dependency namespace.</para>
358 </section>
359 </section>
360
361 <section>
362 <title>Parsing</title>
363 <section>
364 <title>Configuration files</title>
365 <para>The first kind of metadata in BitBake is configuration metadata. This metadata is global, and therefore affects <emphasis>all</emphasis> packages and tasks which are executed.</para>
366 <para>BitBake will first search the current working directory for an optional "conf/bblayers.conf" configuration file. This file is expected to contain a BBLAYERS variable which is a space delimited list of 'layer' directories. For each directory in this list, a "conf/layer.conf" file will be searched for and parsed with the LAYERDIR variable being set to the directory where the layer was found. The idea is these files will setup BBPATH and other variables correctly for a given build directory automatically for the user.</para>
367 <para>BitBake will then expect to find 'conf/bitbake.conf' somewhere in the user specified <envar>BBPATH</envar>. That configuration file generally has include directives to pull in any other metadata (generally files specific to architecture, machine, <emphasis>local</emphasis> and so on).</para>
368 <para>Only variable definitions and include directives are allowed in .conf files.</para>
369 </section>
370 <section>
371 <title>Classes</title>
372 <para>BitBake classes are our rudimentary inheritance mechanism. As briefly mentioned in the metadata introduction, they're parsed when an <literal>inherit</literal> directive is encountered, and they are located in classes/ relative to the directories in <envar>BBPATH</envar>.</para>
373 </section>
374 <section>
375 <title>.bb files</title>
376 <para>A BitBake (.bb) file is a logical unit of tasks to be executed. Normally this is a package to be built. Inter-.bb dependencies are obeyed. The files themselves are located via the <varname>BBFILES</varname> variable, which is set to a space separated list of .bb files, and does handle wildcards.</para>
377 </section>
378 </section>
379 </chapter>
380
381 <chapter>
382 <title>File download support</title>
383 <section>
384 <title>Overview</title>
385 <para>BitBake provides support to download files this procedure is called fetching and it handled by the fetch and fetch2 modules. At this point the original fetch code is considered to be replaced by fetch2 and this manual only related to the fetch2 codebase.</para>
386
387 <para>The SRC_URI is normally used to tell BitBake which files to fetch. The next sections will describe the available fetchers and their options. Each fetcher honors a set of variables and per URI parameters separated by a <quote>;</quote> consisting of a key and a value. The semantics of the variables and parameters are defined by the fetcher. BitBake tries to have consistent semantics between the different fetchers.
388 </para>
389
390 <para>The overall fetch process is that first, fetches are attempted from PREMIRRORS. If those don't work, the original SRC_URI is attempted and if that fails, BitBake will fall back to MIRRORS. Cross urls are supported, so its possible to mirror a git repository on an http server as a tarball for example. Some example commonly used mirror definitions are:</para>
391
392 <para><screen><varname>PREMIRRORS</varname> ?= "\
393bzr://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
394cvs://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
395git://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
396hg://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
397osc://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
398p4://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
399svk://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
400svn://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n"
401
402<varname>MIRRORS</varname> =+ "\
403ftp://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
404http://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
405https://.*/.* http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n"</screen></para>
406
407 <para>Non-local downloaded output is placed into the directory specified by the <varname>DL_DIR</varname>. For non local archive downloads the code can verify sha256 and md5 checksums for the download to ensure the file has been downloaded correctly. These may be specified either in the form <varname>SRC_URI[md5sum]</varname> for the md5 checksum and <varname>SRC_URI[sha256sum]</varname> for the sha256 checksum or as parameters on the SRC_URI such as SRC_URI="http://example.com/foobar.tar.bz2;md5sum=4a8e0f237e961fd7785d19d07fdb994d". If <varname>BB_STRICT_CHECKSUM</varname> is set, any download without a checksum will trigger an error message. In cases where multiple files are listed in SRC_URI, the name parameter is used assign names to the urls and these are then specified in the checksums in the form SRC_URI[name.sha256sum].</para>
408
409 </section>
410
411 <section>
412 <title>Local file fetcher</title>
413 <para>The URN for the local file fetcher is <emphasis>file</emphasis>. The filename can be either absolute or relative. If the filename is relative, <varname>FILESPATH</varname> and failing that <varname>FILESDIR</varname> will be used to find the appropriate relative file. The metadata usually extend these variables to include variations of the values in <varname>OVERRIDES</varname>. Single files and complete directories can be specified.
414<screen><varname>SRC_URI</varname>= "file://relativefile.patch"
415<varname>SRC_URI</varname>= "file://relativefile.patch;this=ignored"
416<varname>SRC_URI</varname>= "file:///Users/ich/very_important_software"
417</screen>
418 </para>
419 </section>
420
421 <section>
422 <title>CVS fetcher</title>
423 <para>The URN for the CVS fetcher is <emphasis>cvs</emphasis>. This fetcher honors the variables <varname>CVSDIR</varname>, <varname>SRCDATE</varname>, <varname>FETCHCOMMAND_cvs</varname>, <varname>UPDATECOMMAND_cvs</varname>. <varname>DL_DIR</varname> specifies where a temporary checkout is saved. <varname>SRCDATE</varname> specifies which date to use when doing the fetching (the special value of "now" will cause the checkout to be updated on every build). <varname>FETCHCOMMAND</varname> and <varname>UPDATECOMMAND</varname> specify which executables to use for the CVS checkout or update.
424 </para>
425 <para>The supported parameters are <varname>module</varname>, <varname>tag</varname>, <varname>date</varname>, <varname>method</varname>, <varname>localdir</varname>, <varname>rsh</varname> and <varname>scmdata</varname>. The <varname>module</varname> specifies which module to check out, the <varname>tag</varname> describes which CVS TAG should be used for the checkout. By default the TAG is empty. A <varname>date</varname> can be specified to override the SRCDATE of the configuration to checkout a specific date. The special value of "now" will cause the checkout to be updated on every build.<varname>method</varname> is by default <emphasis>pserver</emphasis>. If <emphasis>ext</emphasis> is used the <varname>rsh</varname> parameter will be evaluated and <varname>CVS_RSH</varname> will be set. Finally, <varname>localdir</varname> is used to checkout into a special directory relative to <varname>CVSDIR</varname>.
426
427<screen><varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "cvs://CVSROOT;module=mymodule;tag=some-version;method=ext"
428<varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "cvs://CVSROOT;module=mymodule;date=20060126;localdir=usethat"
429</screen>
430 </para>
431 </section>
432
433 <section>
434 <title>HTTP/FTP fetcher</title>
435 <para>The URNs for the HTTP/FTP fetcher are <emphasis>http</emphasis>, <emphasis>https</emphasis> and <emphasis>ftp</emphasis>. This fetcher honors the variables <varname>FETCHCOMMAND_wget</varname>. <varname>FETCHCOMMAND</varname> contains the command used for fetching. <quote>${URI}</quote> and <quote>${FILES}</quote> will be replaced by the URI and basename of the file to be fetched.
436 </para>
437 <para><screen><varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "http://oe.handhelds.org/not_there.aac"
438<varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "ftp://oe.handhelds.org/not_there_as_well.aac"
439<varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "ftp://you@oe.handheld.sorg/home/you/secret.plan"
440</screen></para>
441 </section>
442
443 <section>
444 <title>SVN fetcher</title>
445 <para>The URN for the SVN fetcher is <emphasis>svn</emphasis>.
446 </para>
447 <para>This fetcher honors the variables <varname>FETCHCOMMAND_svn</varname>, <varname>SVNDIR</varname>, <varname>SRCREV</varname>. <varname>FETCHCOMMAND</varname> contains the subversion command. <varname>SRCREV</varname> specifies which revision to use when doing the fetching.
448 </para>
449 <para>The supported parameters are <varname>proto</varname>, <varname>rev</varname> and <varname>scmdata</varname>. <varname>proto</varname> is the Subversion protocol, <varname>rev</varname> is the Subversion revision. If <varname>scmdata</varname> is set to <quote>keep</quote>, the <quote>.svn</quote> directories will be available during compile-time.
450 </para>
451 <para><screen><varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "svn://svn.oe.handhelds.org/svn;module=vip;proto=http;rev=667"
452<varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "svn://svn.oe.handhelds.org/svn/;module=opie;proto=svn+ssh;date=20060126"
453</screen></para>
454 </section>
455
456 <section>
457 <title>GIT fetcher</title>
458 <para>The URN for the GIT Fetcher is <emphasis>git</emphasis>.
459 </para>
460 <para>The variable <varname>GITDIR</varname> will be used as the base directory where the git tree is cloned to.
461 </para>
462 <para>The parameters are <emphasis>tag</emphasis>, <emphasis>protocol</emphasis> and <emphasis>scmdata</emphasis>. <emphasis>tag</emphasis> is a Git tag, the default is <quote>master</quote>. <emphasis>protocol</emphasis> is the Git protocol to use and defaults to <quote>git</quote> if a hostname is set, otherwise its <quote>file</quote>. If <emphasis>scmdata</emphasis> is set to <quote>keep</quote>, the <quote>.git</quote> directory will be available during compile-time.
463 </para>
464 <para><screen><varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "git://git.oe.handhelds.org/git/vip.git;tag=version-1"
465<varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "git://git.oe.handhelds.org/git/vip.git;protocol=http"
466 </screen></para>
467 </section>
468
469 </chapter>
470
471
472 <chapter>
473 <title>The BitBake command</title>
474 <section>
475 <title>Introduction</title>
476 <para>bitbake is the primary command in the system. It facilitates executing tasks in a single .bb file, or executing a given task on a set of multiple .bb files, accounting for interdependencies amongst them.</para>
477 </section>
478 <section>
479 <title>Usage and syntax</title>
480 <para>
481 <screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake --help
482usage: bitbake [options] [package ...]
483
484Executes the specified task (default is 'build') for a given set of BitBake files.
485It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space separated list of files to
486be executed. BBFILES does support wildcards.
487Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.
488
489options:
490 --version show program's version number and exit
491 -h, --help show this help message and exit
492 -b BUILDFILE, --buildfile=BUILDFILE
493 execute the task against this .bb file, rather than a
494 package from BBFILES.
495 -k, --continue continue as much as possible after an error. While the
496 target that failed, and those that depend on it,
497 cannot be remade, the other dependencies of these
498 targets can be processed all the same.
499 -f, --force force run of specified cmd, regardless of stamp status
500 -i, --interactive drop into the interactive mode also called the BitBake
501 shell.
502 -c CMD, --cmd=CMD Specify task to execute. Note that this only executes
503 the specified task for the providee and the packages
504 it depends on, i.e. 'compile' does not implicitly call
505 stage for the dependencies (IOW: use only if you know
506 what you are doing). Depending on the base.bbclass a
507 listtasks task is defined and will show available
508 tasks
509 -r FILE, --read=FILE read the specified file before bitbake.conf
510 -v, --verbose output more chit-chat to the terminal
511 -D, --debug Increase the debug level. You can specify this more
512 than once.
513 -n, --dry-run don't execute, just go through the motions
514 -p, --parse-only quit after parsing the BB files (developers only)
515 -s, --show-versions show current and preferred versions of all packages
516 -e, --environment show the global or per-package environment (this is
517 what used to be bbread)
518 -g, --graphviz emit the dependency trees of the specified packages in
519 the dot syntax
520 -I IGNORED_DOT_DEPS, --ignore-deps=IGNORED_DOT_DEPS
521 Stop processing at the given list of dependencies when
522 generating dependency graphs. This can help to make
523 the graph more appealing
524 -l DEBUG_DOMAINS, --log-domains=DEBUG_DOMAINS
525 Show debug logging for the specified logging domains
526 -P, --profile profile the command and print a report
527
528
529</screen>
530 </para>
531 <para>
532 <example>
533 <title>Executing a task against a single .bb</title>
534 <para>Executing tasks for a single file is relatively simple. You specify the file in question, and BitBake parses it and executes the specified task (or <quote>build</quote> by default). It obeys intertask dependencies when doing so.</para>
535 <para><quote>clean</quote> task:</para>
536 <para><screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake -b blah_1.0.bb -c clean</screen></para>
537 <para><quote>build</quote> task:</para>
538 <para><screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake -b blah_1.0.bb</screen></para>
539 </example>
540 </para>
541 <para>
542 <example>
543 <title>Executing tasks against a set of .bb files</title>
544 <para>There are a number of additional complexities introduced when one wants to manage multiple .bb files. Clearly there needs to be a way to tell BitBake what files are available, and of those, which we want to execute at this time. There also needs to be a way for each .bb to express its dependencies, both for build time and runtime. There must be a way for the user to express their preferences when multiple .bb's provide the same functionality, or when there are multiple versions of a .bb.</para>
545 <para>The next section, Metadata, outlines how to specify such things.</para>
546 <para>Note that the bitbake command, when not using --buildfile, accepts a <varname>PROVIDER</varname>, not a filename or anything else. By default, a .bb generally PROVIDES its packagename, packagename-version, and packagename-version-revision.</para>
547 <screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake blah</screen>
548 <screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake blah-1.0</screen>
549 <screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake blah-1.0-r0</screen>
550 <screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake -c clean blah</screen>
551 <screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake virtual/whatever</screen>
552 <screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake -c clean virtual/whatever</screen>
553 </example>
554 <example>
555 <title>Generating dependency graphs</title>
556 <para>BitBake is able to generate dependency graphs using the dot syntax. These graphs can be converted
557to images using the <application>dot</application> application from <ulink url="http://www.graphviz.org">Graphviz</ulink>.
558Two files will be written into the current working directory, <emphasis>depends.dot</emphasis> containing dependency information at the package level and <emphasis>task-depends.dot</emphasis> containing a breakdown of the dependencies at the task level. To stop depending on common depends, one can use the <prompt>-I depend</prompt> to omit these from the graph. This can lead to more readable graphs. This way, <varname>DEPENDS</varname> from inherited classes such as base.bbclass can be removed from the graph.</para>
559 <screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake -g blah</screen>
560 <screen><prompt>$ </prompt>bitbake -g -I virtual/whatever -I bloom blah</screen>
561 </example>
562 </para>
563 </section>
564 <section>
565 <title>Special variables</title>
566 <para>Certain variables affect BitBake operation:</para>
567 <section>
568 <title><varname>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</varname></title>
569 <para> The number of threads BitBake should run at once (default: 1).</para>
570 </section>
571 </section>
572 <section>
573 <title>Metadata</title>
574 <para>As you may have seen in the usage information, or in the information about .bb files, the <varname>BBFILES</varname> variable is how the BitBake tool locates its files. This variable is a space separated list of files that are available, and supports wildcards.
575 <example>
576 <title>Setting BBFILES</title>
577 <programlisting><varname>BBFILES</varname> = "/path/to/bbfiles/*.bb"</programlisting>
578 </example></para>
579 <para>With regard to dependencies, it expects the .bb to define a <varname>DEPENDS</varname> variable, which contains a space separated list of <quote>package names</quote>, which themselves are the <varname>PN</varname> variable. The <varname>PN</varname> variable is, in general, set to a component of the .bb filename by default.</para>
580 <example>
581 <title>Depending on another .bb</title>
582 <para>a.bb:
583 <screen>PN = "package-a"
584DEPENDS += "package-b"</screen>
585 </para>
586 <para>b.bb:
587 <screen>PN = "package-b"</screen>
588 </para>
589 </example>
590 <example>
591 <title>Using PROVIDES</title>
592 <para>This example shows the usage of the <varname>PROVIDES</varname> variable, which allows a given .bb to specify what functionality it provides.</para>
593 <para>package1.bb:
594 <screen>PROVIDES += "virtual/package"</screen>
595 </para>
596 <para>package2.bb:
597 <screen>DEPENDS += "virtual/package"</screen>
598 </para>
599 <para>package3.bb:
600 <screen>PROVIDES += "virtual/package"</screen>
601 </para>
602 <para>As you can see, we have two different .bb's that provide the same functionality (virtual/package). Clearly, there needs to be a way for the person running BitBake to control which of those providers gets used. There is, indeed, such a way.</para>
603 <para>The following would go into a .conf file, to select package1:
604 <screen>PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/package = "package1"</screen>
605 </para>
606 </example>
607 <example>
608 <title>Specifying version preference</title>
609 <para>When there are multiple <quote>versions</quote> of a given package, BitBake defaults to selecting the most recent version, unless otherwise specified. If the .bb in question has a <varname>DEFAULT_PREFERENCE</varname> set lower than the other .bb's (default is 0), then it will not be selected. This allows the person or persons maintaining the repository of .bb files to specify their preference for the default selected version. In addition, the user can specify their preferred version.</para>
610 <para>If the first .bb is named <filename>a_1.1.bb</filename>, then the <varname>PN</varname> variable will be set to <quote>a</quote>, and the <varname>PV</varname> variable will be set to 1.1.</para>
611 <para>If we then have an <filename>a_1.2.bb</filename>, BitBake will choose 1.2 by default. However, if we define the following variable in a .conf that BitBake parses, we can change that.
612 <screen>PREFERRED_VERSION_a = "1.1"</screen>
613 </para>
614 </example>
615 <example>
616 <title>Using <quote>bbfile collections</quote></title>
617 <para>bbfile collections exist to allow the user to have multiple repositories of bbfiles that contain the same exact package. For example, one could easily use them to make one's own local copy of an upstream repository, but with custom modifications that one does not want upstream. Usage:</para>
618 <screen>BBFILES = "/stuff/openembedded/*/*.bb /stuff/openembedded.modified/*/*.bb"
619BBFILE_COLLECTIONS = "upstream local"
620BBFILE_PATTERN_upstream = "^/stuff/openembedded/"
621BBFILE_PATTERN_local = "^/stuff/openembedded.modified/"
622BBFILE_PRIORITY_upstream = "5"
623BBFILE_PRIORITY_local = "10"</screen>
624 </example>
625 </section>
626 </chapter>
627</book>