[yocto] of recipes and packages

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Chris Larson wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> "bitbake -s" doesn't list "net-snmp-dbg net-snmp-doc net-snmp-dev..."
> >>> it lists "net-snmp". Therefore couldn't the wording of the bitbake
> >>> help be improved to say:
> >>>
> >>> -s, --show-versions   show current and preferred versions of all __recipes__
> >>>
> >>> instead of:
> >>
> >>
> >> It could, and should, be changed in that way, yes.
> >
> > Do the OE people accept this wording too, or is this a
> > yocto-project-only thing? In other words, should a potential patch be
> > sent to OE or here?
>
> The change would be to a core component, which is part of OE and which
> yocto pulls in — bitbake. So it would make no sense to send the patch
> here. No changes to bitbake are going into poky without going into the
> main bitbake repository. The bitbake-devel mailing list is the correct
> place for it.

  there really should be an official glossary somewhere, and it should
be backed up with *actual* *examples* from the source as much as
possible.  that is, don't use "foo" if there's an existing recipe or
package whose use would be more informative.

rday

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