[oe] getting started - docbook

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Thu Oct 25 07:37:39 UTC 2007


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David Farning schreef:

> The biggest challange is deciding on the correct terminology.
> I think that I will start creating a glossary so new users can look up
> terms and experienced users can use 'approved term' consistently. (to
> keep the new users from getting unnecessarily confused) A bitbake
> file, a recipe, and a package all seem to be the same thing.  I didn't
> realize that they were all the same thing until this afternoon.

Actually they aren't the same :)

A bitbake file and a recipe are the same thing, but they produces a
package (.ipk, .deb, etc). That's why we have DEPENDS (for the recipe)
and RDEPENDS (for the package).

regards,

Koen
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