BitBake is a simple tool for the execution of tasks. It is derived from Portage, which is the package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution. It is most commonly used to build packages, and is used as the basis of the OpenEmbedded project.
From the manual:
BitBake is a simple tool for the execution of tasks. It is derived from Portage, which is the package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution. It is most commonly used to build packages, and is used as the basis of the OpenEmbedded project.
BitBake is now managed using the Git source control system which can be obtained from git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake.git. Releases can be downloaded from http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/bitbake/ and the developer mailing list, bitbake-devel can be found at http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-devel.
The user manual is found in the docmentation directory within the source code.
