[OE-core] is there really a "fakeroot" task flag?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Tue Jul 17 17:41:58 UTC 2012


On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Mark Hatle wrote:

> On 7/17/12 9:55 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >    perusing bitbake user manual and in section 2.1.18, "Task Flags",
> > there's mention of "fakeroot".  that's not really a task flag, is it?
> > i thought that that's (now?) a keyword that's used to define a task
> > with that property.
> >
> >    is that line in the user manual incorrect?
>
> My understanding is this is a key word that gets turned into a task
> flag.

  ok, that makes sense.  that's just not clear from that section in
the bitbake manual.  are there any other special cases like that?

rday

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