bitbake: user-manual-metadata.xml: Add details about environment variables used by BitBake

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Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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<section id='parsing-configuration-files'> <section id='parsing-configuration-files'>
<title>Configuration files</title> <title>Configuration files</title>
<para>
Prior to parsing configuration files, Bitbake looks
at certain variables, including:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><filename>BB-ENV-WHITELIST</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>BB_PRESERVE-ENV</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>BB_ORIG_ENV</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>PREFERRED_VERSIONS</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>PREFERRED_PROVIDERS</filename></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para> <para>
The first kind of metadata in BitBake is configuration metadata. The first kind of metadata in BitBake is configuration metadata.
This metadata is global, and therefore affects all packages and This metadata is global, and therefore affects all packages and