[yocto] [PATCH] Documentation: dev manual, add a reference to poky-bleeding distro

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

I can add a caution box after applying the patch.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton
>Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 9:55 AM
>To: Robert P. J. Day
>Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>Subject: Re: [yocto] [PATCH] Documentation: dev manual, add a reference to
>poky-bleeding distro
>
>On Sunday 24 November 2013 06:18:55 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> As an actual example of using AUTOREV, refer the reader to the
>> Yocto-supplied poky-bleeding distribution.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
>> b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index
>> 6b60445..fba2484 100644
>> --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
>> +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
>> @@ -4405,6 +4405,36 @@
>>              is the name of the recipe for which you want to enable
>> automatic source revision updating.
>>          </para>
>> +
>> +        <para>
>> +            In fact, the Yocto Project provides a distribution named
>> +            <filename>poky-bleeding</filename>, whose configuration
>> + file
>> contains +            the line:
>> +            <literallayout class='monospaced'>
>> +     require conf/distro/include/poky-floating-revisions.inc
>> +            </literallayout>
>> +            which pulls in the listed include file that contains
>> + numerous
>> lines of +            exactly that form:
>> +            <literallayout class='monospaced'>
>> +     SRCREV_pn-gconf-dbus ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-common ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-config-gtk ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-desktop ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-keyboard ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-panel ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-panel-2 ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-themes-extra ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-terminal ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-wm ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-wm-2 ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-settings-daemon ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-screenshot ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-libfakekey ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +     SRCREV_pn-oprofileui ?= "${AUTOREV}"
>> +            </literallayout>
>> +            and so on, allowing the developer to experiment with
>> + building a
>> distribution that +            tracks the latest development source for
>> numerous packages. +            </para>
>>      </section>
>>
>>      <section id='creating-a-read-only-root-filesystem'>
>
>What's missing from this is something like "caution - poky-bleeding is not
>tested on a regular basis, if it breaks you get to keep all of the pieces"
>
>Cheers,
>Paul
>
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>
>Paul Eggleton
>Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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