On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Trevor Woerner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon <[email protected]> wrote: >> In this case, bitbake is looking for the expiration dates on your >> ingredients - the version of the package that each recipe builds. > > But your wording would seem to imply _a_ recipe builds _a_ package. > But a recipe doesn't build a package, a recipe potentially builds lots > of packages. For example the "net-snmp" recipe builds the following > packages: "net-snmp-dbg net-snmp-doc net-snmp-dev net-snmp-staticdev > net-snmp-static net-snmp-libs net-snmp-mibs net-snmp-server > net-snmp-client" > > "bitbake -s" doesn't list "net-snmp-dbg net-snmp-doc net-snmp-dev..." > it lists "net-snmp". Therefore couldn't the wording of the bitbake > help be improved to say: > > -s, --show-versions show current and preferred versions of all __recipes__ > > instead of:
It could, and should, be changed in that way, yes. -- Christopher Larson _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
