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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 12:27:07 PM NZDT Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 8:16:06 AM NZDT Andre McCurdy wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > Well, there are folks out there using bitbake with their own (non-OE)
> > metadata,
> 
> Are any of those projects public? I'd be interested to see how that's
> being done.

The main one I am aware of being active in recent times is Isar:

  https://github.com/ilbers/isar
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHHOxrtYBMc

There have been others mentioned on the bitbake mailing list over time but I 
don't recall any others that were public.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre