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diff --git a/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml b/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml index 93af35b7f..f7e6a69d8 100644 --- a/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml +++ b/doc/user-manual/user-manual-intro.xml @@ -9,13 +9,17 @@ <para> BitBake is a tool for executing tasks commonly performed by software - developers when building systems on a daily basis. - BitBake can build Systems consisting of numerous individual pieces + developers when building embedded Linux systems on a daily basis. + BitBake can build systems consisting of numerous individual pieces of software, or can be used to build a single application. Example tasks that BitBake can execute are fetching source code, applying patches to source code, configuring, compiling, and packaging applications into a complete system, and managing metadata. - BitBake abstracts the information for completing individual tasks + Metadata is stored in recipe (<filename>.bb</filename>), + configuration (<filename>.conf</filename>), and class + (<filename>.bbclass</filename>) files and provide to BitBake the + instructions for which sources to build and how to build them. + BitBake abstracts the information for completing individual tasks into files known as recipes. Recipes contain all of the relevant information required by BitBake to complete a given task including dependencies, source file |