dev-manual: Rephrase spdx creation

Make the options more clear by providing them in a list instead of plain prosa.
Also add a ref for a presentation wrt spdx 3.0 in the Yocto project.

Fixes [YOCTO 7476]

(From yocto-docs rev: 9e5956736a9b6e6c99967d120303d5142550fdb1)

Signed-off-by: Simone Weiß <simone.p.weiss@posteo.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/sbom.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/sbom.rst
index 448c071c55..6949675c25 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/sbom.rst
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/sbom.rst
@@ -30,22 +30,29 @@ To make this happen, you must inherit the
 
    INHERIT += "create-spdx"
 
-You then get :term:`SPDX` output in JSON format as an
-``IMAGE-MACHINE.spdx.json`` file in ``tmp/deploy/images/MACHINE/`` inside the
-:term:`Build Directory`.
+Upon building an image, you will then get:
 
-This is a toplevel file accompanied by an ``IMAGE-MACHINE.spdx.index.json``
-containing an index of JSON :term:`SPDX` files for individual recipes, together
-with an ``IMAGE-MACHINE.spdx.tar.zst`` compressed archive containing all such
-files.
+-  :term:`SPDX` output in JSON format as an ``IMAGE-MACHINE.spdx.json`` file in
+   ``tmp/deploy/images/MACHINE/`` inside the :term:`Build Directory`.
+
+-  This toplevel file is accompanied by an ``IMAGE-MACHINE.spdx.index.json``
+   containing an index of JSON :term:`SPDX` files for individual recipes.
+
+-  The compressed archive ``IMAGE-MACHINE.spdx.tar.zst`` contains the index
+   and the files for the single recipes.
 
 The :ref:`ref-classes-create-spdx` class offers options to include
-more information in the output :term:`SPDX` data, such as making the generated
-files more human readable (:term:`SPDX_PRETTY`), adding compressed archives of
-the files in the generated target packages (:term:`SPDX_ARCHIVE_PACKAGED`),
-adding a description of the source files used to generate host tools and target
-packages (:term:`SPDX_INCLUDE_SOURCES`) and adding archives of these source
-files themselves (:term:`SPDX_ARCHIVE_SOURCES`).
+more information in the output :term:`SPDX` data:
+
+-  Make the json files more human readable by setting (:term:`SPDX_PRETTY`).
+
+-  Add compressed archives of the files in the generated target packages by
+   setting (:term:`SPDX_ARCHIVE_PACKAGED`).
+
+-  Add a description of the source files used to generate host tools and target
+   packages (:term:`SPDX_INCLUDE_SOURCES`)
+
+-  Add archives of these source files themselves (:term:`SPDX_ARCHIVE_SOURCES`).
 
 Though the toplevel :term:`SPDX` output is available in
 ``tmp/deploy/images/MACHINE/`` inside the :term:`Build Directory`, ancillary
@@ -67,6 +74,8 @@ See the `tools page <https://spdx.dev/resources/tools/>`__ on the :term:`SPDX`
 project website for a list of tools to consume and transform the :term:`SPDX`
 data generated by the OpenEmbedded build system.
 
-See also Joshua Watt's
+See also Joshua Watt's presentations
 `Automated SBoM generation with OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project <https://youtu.be/Q5UQUM6zxVU>`__
-presentation at FOSDEM 2023.
+at FOSDEM 2023 and
+`SPDX in the Yocto Project <https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3318-spdx-in-the-yocto-project/>`__
+at FOSDEM 2024.