Configuration Format Changes

Version 1 (Alias ‘0.10’)

Added

  • Include mechanism
  • Version check

Version 2

Changed

  • Configuration file versions are now integers

Fixed

  • Including files from repos that are not defined in the current file

Version 3

Added

  • Task key that allows to specify which task to run (bitbake -c)

Version 4

Added

  • Target key now allows to be a list of target names

Version 5

Changed behavior

  • Using multiconfig:* targets adds appropriate BBMULTICONFIG entries to the local.conf automatically.

Version 6

Added

  • env key now allows to pass custom environment variables to the bitbake build process.

Version 7

Added

  • type property to repos to be able to express which version control system to use.

Version 8

Added

  • patches property to repos to be able to apply additional patches to the repo.

Version 9

Added

  • defaults key can now be used to set a default value for the repository property refspec and the repository patch property repo. These default values will be used if the appropriate properties are not defined for a given repository or patch.

Version 10

Added

  • build_system property to pre-select OE or Isar.

Version 11

Changed behavior

  • String item includes are now using repo-relative paths. File-relative is still supported by issues a deprecation warning.
  • bblayers.conf is generated with BBPATH and BBFILES preset to common defaults. Those can still be overwritten via bblayers_conf_headers.

Added

  • menu_configuration key stores the selections done via kas menu in a configuration file. It is only evaluated by that plugin.

Version 12

Added

  • For repositories, url and path can now be overridden with a null-value to switch between version-controlled repositories and unversioned local folders.

Version 13

Added

  • Variables used in the env section can now be assigned ‘None’ as value. In this case the variables are only exported to the bb env whitelist.

Version 14

Added

  • The keys commit and branch are introduced as replacement of refspec in repos and defaults. refspec is now deprecated and will eventually be removed.
  • The overrides top-level entry can be used to pin floating repo branches.
  • _source_dir top-level entry is auto-generated when using the menu plugin and provides the path to the top repo at time of invoking the plugin.
  • _source_dir_host top-level entry is auto-generated by kas-container to track the source path outside of the container.