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authorPaul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>2013-04-09 14:13:57 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2013-04-13 23:57:15 +0100
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ref-manual/ref-variables: add PROVIDES
Tightened up the text. (From yocto-docs rev: 9b697681e0c2c3658c6552ec0c9951fc987c9b10) Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -2805,6 +2805,23 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
2805 </glossdef> 2805 </glossdef>
2806 </glossentry> 2806 </glossentry>
2807 2807
2808 <glossentry id='var-PROVIDES'><glossterm>PROVIDES</glossterm>
2809 <glossdef>
2810 <para>
2811 A list of aliases that a recipe also provides.
2812 These aliases are useful for satisfying dependencies of
2813 other recipes during the build (as specified by
2814 <filename><link linkend='var-DEPENDS'>DEPENDS</link></filename>).
2815 <note>
2816 A recipe's own
2817 <filename><link linkend='var-PN'>PN</link></filename>
2818 is implicitly already in its
2819 <filename>PROVIDES</filename> list.
2820 </note>
2821 </para>
2822 </glossdef>
2823 </glossentry>
2824
2808 <glossentry id='var-PV'><glossterm>PV</glossterm> 2825 <glossentry id='var-PV'><glossterm>PV</glossterm>
2809 <glossdef> 2826 <glossdef>
2810 <para>The version of the recipe. 2827 <para>The version of the recipe.