[yocto] admittedly simple questions about DISTRO_PN_ALIAS

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Paul Eggleton wrote:

... my original confusion and whining about DISTRO_PN_ALIAS
section in dev manual snipped ...

> I'm not entirely sure how that section came to be written on its
> own, because it isn't at all useful and should probably be removed
> to save people confusion. DISTRO_PN_ALIAS is related to the mostly
> undocumented distrodata.bbclass that is supposed to help with
> managing recipe updates; I think the idea was to make a comparison
> with packages available in mainstream Linux distros but what it
> actually does for you in practice based on the code I can find
> doesn't seem to be very much.
>
> FYI, the reason distrodata has remained mostly undocumented is that
> we've had a plan to try to refactor and improve it for several years
> now, but it hasn't been as high a priority as we would have liked.
> There has been some renewed activity lately however - Aníbal Limón
> is working on the Recipe Reporting Service to replace what is up at
> packages.yoctoproject.org, and it should make it easier for people
> whose job it is to maintain recipes to track the current status with
> respect to upstream releases. It's being built on top of the
> OpenEmbedded Layer Index application.

  ok, so i'm just going to ignore this variable for the time being and
let the higher powers deal with it. thanks.

rday

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