[bitbake-devel] Bitbake staged builds?

[Alexander Kanavin]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 08:09, Edmund Nadolski via bitbake-devel
<bitbake-devel at lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> Does bitbake support the notion of a "staged" build?  By this I mean a user making an initial invocation to run a series of tasks, then subsequently making a second invocation to do a second set of tasks, and so on until all the tasks for a build target are completed.   The main idea is to be able to run additional steps (outside of bitbake) between the invocations.  Is 'addtask' a reasonable mechanism to implement this?

You can do it, but it would be very confusing and prone to human
errors. I recommend that you write recipes for the 'additional steps',
and use DEPENDS as needed to ensure things are run in correct order.

Alex