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authorRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-03-09 18:47:30 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-03-09 18:59:00 -0700
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bitbake: user-manual-metadata.xml: Add details about environment variables used by BitBake
(Bitbake rev: 91d3e60a48d2269adfd0084eb6f1bcdb211dbce1) Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/bitbake/doc/user-manual/user-manual-metadata.xml b/bitbake/doc/user-manual/user-manual-metadata.xml
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+++ b/bitbake/doc/user-manual/user-manual-metadata.xml
@@ -958,6 +958,19 @@
<title>Configuration files</title>
<para>
+ Prior to parsing configuration files, Bitbake looks
+ at certain variables, including:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para><filename>BB-ENV-WHITELIST</filename></para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><filename>BB_PRESERVE-ENV</filename></para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><filename>BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE</filename></para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><filename>BB_ORIG_ENV</filename></para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><filename>PREFERRED_VERSIONS</filename></para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><filename>PREFERRED_PROVIDERS</filename></para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
The first kind of metadata in BitBake is configuration metadata.
This metadata is global, and therefore affects all packages and
tasks that are executed.
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