Plugin specific documentation

Plugins provide their own individual plugin specific YAML configurations, The element .bst files can specify plugin specific configuration in the config section, while sources declared on a given element specify their plugin specific configuration directly in their source declarations.

Elements

• stack - Symbolic Element for dependency grouping
• import - Import sources directly
• compose - Compose the output of multiple elements
• script - Run scripts to create output
• link - Link elements
• junction - Integrate subprojects
• filter - Extract a subset of files from another element
• manual - Manual build element

Sources

All source plugins can be staged into an arbitrary directory within the build sandbox with the directory option. See Source class built-in functionality for more information.

• local - stage local files and directories
• remote - stage files from remote urls
• tar - stage files from tar archives

External plugins

External plugins need to be loading through junctions, or alternatively installed separately in the python environment where you are running BuildStream and loaded using the pip method.

Here is a list of BuildStream plugin projects known to us at this time:

• buildstream-plugins

• buildstream-plugins-community (formerly known as bst-plugins-experimental)

• bst-plugins-container