[OE-core] [PATCH 12/26] devtool: add: tweak help text

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Tue Dec 22 04:03:05 UTC 2015


Add a few clarifying words.

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
---
 scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
index c11de9d..57175a4 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ def edit_recipe(args, config, basepath, workspace):
 def register_commands(subparsers, context):
     """Register devtool subcommands from this plugin"""
     parser_add = subparsers.add_parser('add', help='Add a new recipe',
-                                       description='Adds a new recipe to the workspace to build a specified source tree')
+                                       description='Adds a new recipe to the workspace to build a specified source tree. Can optionally fetch a remote URI and unpack it to create the source tree.')
     parser_add.add_argument('recipename', help='Name for new recipe to add (just name - no version, path or extension)')
     parser_add.add_argument('srctree', help='Path to external source tree')
     group = parser_add.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ def register_commands(subparsers, context):
     parser_add.add_argument('--fetch', '-f', help='Fetch the specified URI and extract it to create the source tree', metavar='URI')
     parser_add.add_argument('--version', '-V', help='Version to use within recipe (PV)')
     parser_add.add_argument('--no-git', '-g', help='If -f/--fetch is specified, do not set up source tree as a git repository', action="store_true")
-    parser_add.add_argument('--binary', '-b', help='Treat the source tree as something that should be installed verbatim (no compilation, same directory structure)', action='store_true')
+    parser_add.add_argument('--binary', '-b', help='Treat the source tree as something that should be installed verbatim (no compilation, same directory structure). Useful with binary packages e.g. RPMs.', action='store_true')
     parser_add.set_defaults(func=add)
 
     parser_modify = subparsers.add_parser('modify', help='Modify the source for an existing recipe',
-- 
2.5.0




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