[OE-core] Releases of BitBake to package for Fedora?

Andre McCurdy armccurdy at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 19:16:06 UTC 2017


On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> The bitbake API isn't really stable and has a reasonable amount of change,
> so if you were to package it then there's a good chance it would be out of
> date within six months and people who wanted to use the latest oe-core
> release against the packaged bitbake would hit API version errors.  The
> recommended usage is to bundle in some way bitbake and the metadata
> (combo-layer, submodules, repo, whatever).
>
> As such there are no tarballs.  There are branches for each version and
> commits where the version is bumped, if you're really determined to package
> a snapshot.

If there's no realistic hope of (or need for) using bitbake standalone
then maybe it's time to move bitbake into oe-core?



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