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Bitbake
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BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run
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efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints.
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One of BitBake's main users, OpenEmbedded, takes this core and builds embedded Linux software
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stacks using a task-oriented approach.
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For information about Bitbake, see the OpenEmbedded website:
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https://www.openembedded.org/
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Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated
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html version at the Yocto Project website:
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https://docs.yoctoproject.org
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Contributing
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Please refer to
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https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded
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for guidelines on how to submit patches, just note that the latter documentation is intended
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for OpenEmbedded (and its core) not bitbake patches (bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org)
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but in general main guidelines apply. Once the commit(s) have been created, the way to send
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the patch is through git-send-email. For example, to send the last commit (HEAD) on current
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branch, type:
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git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
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Mailing list:
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https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel
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Source code:
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https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/
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Testing:
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Bitbake has a testsuite located in lib/bb/tests/ whichs aim to try and prevent regressions.
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You can run this with "bitbake-selftest". In particular the fetcher is well covered since
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it has so many corner cases. The datastore has many tests too. Testing with the testsuite is
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recommended before submitting patches, particularly to the fetcher and datastore. We also
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appreciate new test cases and may require them for more obscure issues.
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