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, nowadays the two projects have diverged a lot due to the different usage focusses. The Yocto Project and the OpenEmbedded Project are the most known and intensive users of BitBake, which remains a separated and independent project with its own development cycle and mailing list (<bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org>).

As presented in to GNU Make in some aspects.

In this chapter, we cover the main aspects of BitBake tool. However, for more in-depth details about the tool, please refer to the BitBake User Manual.