DESCRIPTION = 'Linux-VServer admin utilities'
MAINTAINER = 'Lynn Lin <lynn.lin@avocent.com>'
HOMEPAGE = 'http://www.nongnu.org/util-vserver/'
LICENSE = 'GPL-2'
SRC_URI = 'http://ftp.linux-vserver.org/pub/utils/${PN}-${PV}.tar.bz2'
DEPENDS = 'beecrypt iptables vlan iproute2 dietlibc'
RDEPENDS =

The hard way! 

There are many ways to put Linux on a x86 embedded system.  There are hundreds of distributions out there and the temptation is always to do something 'quick' and just try to trim down one of the standard distributions.  Other shortcuts are often taken, such as compiling your application on a workstation that is running a different distribution and different versions of the libraries used in the embedded systems.  This approach can work, but there are many possible pitfalls:

• Several years down the road, it will be difficult to compile applications for your target system as the librari

BitBake allows to install event handlers. Events are triggered at certain points during operation, such as, the beginning of operation against a given .bb, the start of a given task, task failure, task success, et cetera. The intent was to make it easy to do things like email notifications on build failure.

 addhandler myclass_eventhandler

 python myclass_eventhandler() {

     from bb.event import NotHandled, getName

     from bb import data

 

     print 'The name of the Event is %s' % getName(e)

     print 'The file we run for is %s' % data.getVar('FILE', e.data, True)

 

     return NotHandled

 }

 

This event handler gets called every time an event is triggered. A global variable e is defined. e.data contains an instance of bb.data. With the getName(e) method one can get the name of the triggered event.

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