[bitbake-devel] Bitbake staged builds?

[Edmund Nadolski]

Hello list,

(My first post, pls. advise if this is not the appropriate list.)

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?

Thanks in advance, and/all advice greatly appreciated.

Ed Nadolski