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

Rifenbark, Scott M scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com
Mon Nov 25 13:47:56 PST 2013


Applied with some tweaks.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
>Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 3:19 AM
>To: Yocto discussion list
>Subject: [yocto] [PATCH] Documentation: dev manual, add a reference to
>poky-bleeding distro
>
>
>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'>
>
>--
>
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>=============
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>                        http://crashcourse.ca
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