On 22/08/2013 18:11, "Richard Purdie" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:40 +0000, Barros Pena, Belen wrote: >> >> On 22/08/2013 16:02, "Damian, Alexandru" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >not sure how this should be handled, Paul thinks it should be in there >>? >> > >> > >> >AFAIK, suffixed variables get used instead of the normal ones, so they >> >are more like replacements. >> > >> >I guess the design ask that we should the only the variables with doc >> >attached, >> >> Well Š no :) >> >> The design actually asked nothing, since it is still very much in the >> works. My request to the team was in the lines of: can we provide a >>short >> explanation of the variables we show? When trying to work out how to >> actually do this, we were suggested to use documentation.conf to provide >> such explanations. This is quite different from saying "show variables >> with the [doc] flag". > >PREFERRED_PROVIDER is perhaps a special case since it will usually have >a suffix and we're not going to add a [doc] tag for every single one. >Special casing that one in the code may make sense. > >Are there any other suffixed variables that are causing similar >problems? Yes, a few: B, SECTION, PREFERRED_VERSION, BASE_LIB, LAYERDEPENDS, etc. That's why I brought it up. > >I suspect Paul's proposal of knocking off the lowercase suffixes and >seeing if a [doc] tag exists might be the best/only way to attempt to >handle this. > >Cheers, > >Richard > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Corporation (UK) Limited Registered No. 1134945 (England) Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ VAT No: 860 2173 47 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. _______________________________________________ webhob mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/webhob
