[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] Documentation: A few tweaks to Chapter 2, BitBake User Manual

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Applied.  Needs merged into BB repo.

Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: bitbake-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:bitbake-
>devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
>Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 7:11 AM
>To: BitBake developer list
>Subject: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] Documentation: A few tweaks to Chapter 2,
>BitBake User Manual
>
>
>Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
>
>---
>
>  only questionable part is my example of busybox supplying two versions,
>perhaps that's outside the scope of this manual.
>
>diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml
>b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml
>index 8b6e0b4..403ad5b 100644
>--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml
>+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml
>@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
>     <para>
>         The primary purpose for running BitBake is to produce some kind
>         of output such as a single installable package, a kernel, a software
>-        development kit, or even a full, board-specific bootable Linux image.
>+        development kit, or even a full, board-specific bootable Linux image,
>+        complete with bootloader, kernel and root filesystem.
>         Of course, you can execute the <filename>bitbake</filename>
>         command with options that cause it to execute single tasks,
>         compile single recipe files, capture or clear data, or simply @@ -45,6
>+46,11 @@
>                 build host with hyper-threading will most likely show eight
>processors,
>                 which is the value you would then assign to that variable.
>             </para>
>+
>+            <para>
>+                A possibly simpler solution is that some Linux distributions
>+                (Debian, Ubuntu) provide the <filename>ncpus</filename>
>command.
>+            </para>
>         </note>
>     </para>
>
>@@ -84,7 +90,7 @@
>             <link linkend='var-BBFILES'><filename>BBFILES</filename></link>.
>             <filename>BBPATH</filename> is used to search for
>             configuration and class files under the
>-            <filename>conf</filename> and <filename>classes</filename>
>+            <filename>conf/</filename> and
>+ <filename>classes/</filename>
>             directories, respectively.
>             <filename>BBFILES</filename> is used to locate both recipe
>             and recipe append files
>@@ -464,6 +470,29 @@
>      PREFERRED_VERSION_a = "1.1"
>             </literallayout>
>         </para>
>+
>+        <note>
>+            <para>
>+                It's common for a recipe to provide two versions -- a stable,
>+                numbered (and preferred) version, and a version that is
>+                automatically checked out from a source code repository that
>+                is considered more "bleeding edge" but can be selected only
>+                explicitly.
>+            </para>
>+
>+            <para>
>+                For example, in the OpenEmbedded codebase, there is a standard,
>+                versioned recipe file for BusyBox,
>+                <filename>busybox_1.22.1.bb</filename>,
>+                but there is also a Git-based version,
>+                <filename>busybox_git.bb</filename>, which explicitly contains the
>line
>+                <literallayout class='monospaced'>
>+    DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
>+                </literallayout>
>+                to ensure that the numbered, stable version is always preferred
>+                unless the developer selects otherwise.
>+            </para>
>+        </note>
>     </section>
>
>     <section id='bb-bitbake-dependencies'>
>
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