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@@ -702,6 +702,37 @@ need to import them.</para>
<varname>FILE</varname>
variable.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ During a Build, the following common events occur:
+
+bb.event.ConfigParsed()
+bb.event.ParseStarted()
+bb.event.ParseProgress()
+bb.event.ParseCompleted()
+bb.event.BuildStarted()
+bb.build.TaskStarted()
+bb.build.TaskInvalid()
+bb.build.TaskFailedSilent()
+bb.build.TaskFailed()
+bb.build.TaskSucceeded()
+bb.event.BuildCompleted()
+bb.cooker.CookerExit()
+</para>
+
+<para>
+There are also other events that occur based on specific requests to the server:
+
+bb.event.TreeDataPreparationStarted()
+bb.event.TreeDataPreparationProgress
+bb.event.TreeDataPreparationCompleted
+bb.event.DepTreeGenerated
+bb.event.CoreBaseFilesFound
+bb.event.ConfigFilePathFound
+bb.event.FilesMatchingFound
+bb.event.ConfigFilesFound
+bb.event.TargetsTreeGenerated
+</para>
</section>
<section>
@@ -852,6 +883,7 @@ need to import them.</para>
<para>
<emphasis>NOTE: This section is in draft.</emphasis>
+
It is often necessary to manipulate variables within python functions
and the Bitbake data store has an API which allows this.
The operations available are: