[bitbake-devel] [OE-core] BitBake changes in the Yocto Project 1.5 cycle

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Trevor Woerner wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
> > We'd add in some kind of
> > timeout of say 15 minutes so that it would gracefully exit.
>
> Hopefully this time-out will start at the completion of the most
> recent bitbake command, rather than from its start?
>
> > The reason for doing this is simple, it would allow commands to be much
> > more responsive rather than having the cache/configuration loading each
> > time which is where our current overhead is.
>
> This sounds like a very nice feature to have.
>
> > This would then lead into the second proposal which is to add better
> > support for new commands.
>
> It would be nice if there was a way to zero-in on an existing
> environment variable. For example:
>
>     $ bitbake -e <image>
>
> produces a lot of information which I then have to parse in order to
> figure out how a given environment variable is being set. It would be
> nice if I could simply:
>
>     $ bitbake -e <image> <variable>
>
> and just get the pertinent parts.

  i think bitbake-env would do this for you.

rday

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