>From the perspective of a new, easily confused and overwhelmed user, I whole heartedly agree with the index entry. And now it makes sense why there is a PV to store version of a recipe.
On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 18:46 +0000, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: > Rudolf, > > > > This is good feedback on the descriptions for the variable names > Rudolf. I did try and clean things up there a bit. > > > > Thanks, > > Scott > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Rudolf Streif > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:45 AM > To: Rifenbark, Scott M > Cc: Paul Eggleton; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [yocto] The term Package as used in the YP docs > > > > > I am not advocating changing the variable names. I know that this is a > huge undertaking and prone to many problems. This probably one of the > many legacy things people will have to live with and understand. In > most cases recipe name and version exactly reflect the name and > version of the package it is intended to build which to some extend > mitigates the issue. > > > > > As far as the Terms section in the manuals is concerned, I see that > you already changed the describing text for the variables. That's > sufficient, I think. > > > > > > :rjs > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Rifenbark, Scott M > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have tried to weed out the ambiguous use of "package" for this > upcoming version of the manual set. I don't think I would want to > suggest changing any of the "P*" type variable names in the code. I > agree with Paul here that the potential for really messing things up > out-weighs any other benefit. This is why I was trying to worm in a > bit of history behind those names for the people that might struggle > like me. > > Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:34 AM > To: Rudolf Streif > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [yocto] The term Package as used in the YP docs > > > On Friday 28 September 2012 11:27:37 Rudolf Streif wrote: > > +1 > > > > I agree with Scott's definition. In the general Linux context a > Package is > > a compilation of binaries, documentation, development files, etc. > wrapped > > up in a format that can be used by a package management system to > install > > it on a target system. > > No dispute there. > > > It is somewhat confusing that YP and OE use the term 'package' > synonymously > > with 'recipe'. In most cases a package is the output of a recipe. > > The thing is, we no longer do that - we've fixed a number of > references in the > documentation, help text and error messages for this release so that > "recipe" > is used when that's what we mean. If we've left any references that > should be > considered a bug. > > > Unfortunately, changing variables like P, PN, PV, PR etc. > > may cause some pain. If a transition is what the broader community > would > > like to achieve then a period where old and new variables can be > used > > interchangeably (if possible) would be the way to go. > > I'm not sure there's a huge amount to be gained by doing this when > weighed > against the cost - it would certainly cause a massive amount of churn, > with > the potential for problems with layer interaction where one layer has > done the > big rename and another that bbappends recipes in the first hasn't. > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre > > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
