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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2011-09-27 06:43:13 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-10-04 14:01:38 +0100
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documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml: update PREFERRED_PROVIDER
I added sterner wording on usage and provided an example. (From yocto-docs rev: 32e07fafadb602b93c9f7b8a78e5baf4c7e1ab5e) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index d224ed9978..777a91b81f 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -822,10 +822,18 @@
822 822
823 <glossentry id='var-PREFERRED_PROVIDER'><glossterm>PREFERRED_PROVIDER</glossterm> 823 <glossentry id='var-PREFERRED_PROVIDER'><glossterm>PREFERRED_PROVIDER</glossterm>
824 <glossdef> 824 <glossdef>
825 <para>If multiple recipes provide an item, this variable 825 <para>
826 If multiple recipes provide an item, this variable
826 determines which recipe should be given preference. 827 determines which recipe should be given preference.
827 The variable should be set to the <filename>$PN</filename> of the recipe 828 The variable must always be suffixed with the name of the
828 to which you want to give precedence.</para> 829 provided item, and should be set to the
830 <filename>$PN</filename> of the recipe
831 to which you want to give precedence.
832 Here is an example:
833 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
834 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/xserver = "xserver-xf86"
835 </literallayout>
836 </para>
829 </glossdef> 837 </glossdef>
830 </glossentry> 838 </glossentry>
831 839