Is it possible to pass in command line variables to a bitbake build?

Question

I have an OpenEmbedded environment using bitbake to do some builds. I wanted to get something \"interactive\" going on where bitbake would pause and ask for input then continue

Answer 1

There's also a convenient command-line way to do this, that's described in the bitbake manual using BB_ORIGENV:

Sometimes, it is useful to be able to obtain information from the original execution environment. Bitbake saves a copy of the original environment into a special variable named BB_ORIGENV.

To do so, you could read a variable exactly as they suggest (from a Python function):

 origenv = d.getVar("BB_ORIGENV", False)
 bar = origenv.getVar("BAR", False)

Then, the way to pass that from the command line is simply:

BAR=somevalue bitbake myimage