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authorRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>2013-11-25 11:11:00 -0800
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-03 12:53:21 +0000
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dev-manual: Add a reference to poky-bleeding distro
As an actual example of using AUTOREV, refer the reader to the Yocto-supplied poky-bleeding distribution. Also cleaned up some wording and added a Caution statement about the distro not being regularly tested - Scott (From yocto-docs rev: 2a74573af702c905274e377304a946fd335a0182) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -4394,6 +4394,45 @@
4394 is the name of the recipe for which you want to enable automatic source 4394 is the name of the recipe for which you want to enable automatic source
4395 revision updating. 4395 revision updating.
4396 </para> 4396 </para>
4397
4398 <para>
4399 In fact, the Yocto Project provides a distribution named
4400 <filename>poky-bleeding</filename>, whose configuration
4401 file contains the line:
4402 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
4403 require conf/distro/include/poky-floating-revisions.inc
4404 </literallayout>
4405 This line pulls in the listed include file that contains
4406 numerous lines of exactly that form:
4407 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
4408 SRCREV_pn-gconf-dbus ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4409 SRCREV_pn-matchbox-common ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4410 SRCREV_pn-matchbox-config-gtk ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4411 SRCREV_pn-matchbox-desktop ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4412 SRCREV_pn-matchbox-keyboard ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4413 SRCREV_pn-matchbox-panel ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4414 SRCREV_pn-matchbox-panel-2 ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4415 SRCREV_pn-matchbox-themes-extra ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4416 SRCREV_pn-matchbox-terminal ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4417 SRCREV_pn-matchbox-wm ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4418 SRCREV_pn-matchbox-wm-2 ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4419 SRCREV_pn-settings-daemon ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4420 SRCREV_pn-screenshot ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4421 SRCREV_pn-libfakekey ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4422 SRCREV_pn-oprofileui ?= "${AUTOREV}"
4423 .
4424 .
4425 .
4426 </literallayout>
4427 These lines allow you to experiment with building a
4428 distribution that tracks the latest development source
4429 for numerous packages.
4430 <note><title>Caution</title>
4431 The <filename>poky-bleeding</filename> distribution
4432 is not tested on a regular basis.
4433 Keep this in mind if you use it.
4434 </note>
4435 </para>
4397 </section> 4436 </section>
4398 4437
4399 <section id='creating-a-read-only-root-filesystem'> 4438 <section id='creating-a-read-only-root-filesystem'>