[yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:

> Just a note here regarding which Yocto Project manuals to look at
> for the most current information.  Use the 1.4 manuals.  So for the
> FILESEXTRAPATHS variable description you should look at
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.4/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-FILESEXTRAPATHS
> entry.  The description in this more recent manual may be lacking as
> well.  I will try and work on that going forward.

  i use the "in progress" version of all of the manuals, so i still
think that glossary entry is a bit skimpy on details. on the other
hand, glossary entries are *normally* fairly brief, so a full
explanation of something like that probably belongs elsewhere, anyway.

rday

p.s.  i think one of the manuals should mention chris larson's
"bitbake-env" utility, which i use for debugging and explanations all
the time.

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