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author | Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> | 2023-09-12 10:32:22 +0200 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2023-09-19 15:57:35 +0100 |
commit | 0c33a64edda790b35ff8288c288648214ab09f9f (patch) | |
tree | a1484302cd29069afe7ef65153aa841c1e63f309 /documentation/dev-manual | |
parent | 6e7bf979f264c6faa4fd3c598c1c7195569648f2 (diff) | |
download | poky-0c33a64edda790b35ff8288c288648214ab09f9f.tar.gz |
dev-manual: new-recipe.rst fix inconsistency with contributor guide
This document was suggesting a way to version pre-releases
which doesn't match the latest recommendations from the
contributor guide.
(From yocto-docs rev: b51c21e59bd624153f6f9b8bf3cf33329bd25e56)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation/dev-manual')
-rw-r--r-- | documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst index cb9533ff5d..457f9632ce 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst | |||
@@ -1036,13 +1036,14 @@ build system and package managers, so the resulting packages will not | |||
1036 | correctly trigger an upgrade. | 1036 | correctly trigger an upgrade. |
1037 | 1037 | ||
1038 | In order to ensure the versions compare properly, the recommended | 1038 | In order to ensure the versions compare properly, the recommended |
1039 | convention is to set :term:`PV` within the | 1039 | convention is to use a tilde (``~``) character as follows:: |
1040 | recipe to "previous_version+current_version". You can use an additional | ||
1041 | variable so that you can use the current version elsewhere. Here is an | ||
1042 | example:: | ||
1043 | 1040 | ||
1044 | REALPV = "0.8.16-rc1" | 1041 | PV = 0.8.16~rc1 |
1045 | PV = "0.8.15+${REALPV}" | 1042 | |
1043 | This way ``0.8.16~rc1`` sorts before ``0.8.16``. See the | ||
1044 | ":ref:`contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide:version policy`" section in the | ||
1045 | Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded Contributor Guide for more details about | ||
1046 | versioning code corresponding to a pre-release or to a specific Git commit. | ||
1046 | 1047 | ||
1047 | Post-Installation Scripts | 1048 | Post-Installation Scripts |
1048 | ========================= | 1049 | ========================= |