(i'm in a proofreading mood today ...) reading dev manual here:
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.7/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#usingpoky-configuring-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS and first silly question -- what is the *purpose* of that variable? as in, what effect will it have on the eventual image? what difference will it make that, say, in fedora, a recipe would produce a package with a slightly different name? that section doesn't really explain that, as far as i can tell. next, i can see the collection of those settings in the file meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc, which has some odd lines. for example: DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-blktool = "Debian=blktool Mandriva=blktool" what's the value of defining an alleged alias that simply has the same name? what is happening here? oh, and there's this amusing example: DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-bjam = "OpenSuSE=boost-jam Debina=bjam" ^^^^^^ but since the recipe name is the *same*, i'm guessing that doesn't cause a problem. finally, the dev manual doesn't explain the meaning of lines like: DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-adt-installer = "Intel" DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-alsa-state = "OE-Core" DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-bdwgc = "OSPDT" in short, i can appreciate the *concept* of what might be happening in that short section, while still having no idea what value it has or how a developer might use it. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
