| .. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK |
| BitBake was originally a part of the OpenEmbedded project. It was inspired by |
| the Portage package management system used by the Gentoo Linux distribution. In |
| 2004, the OpenEmbedded project was split the project into two distinct pieces: |
| - BitBake, a generic task executor |
| - OpenEmbedded, a metadata set utilized by BitBake |
| Today, BitBake is the primary build tool of OpenEmbedded based projects, such as |
| The BitBake documentation can be found :doc:`here <bitbake:index>`. |