ref-manual: Updated the STAGING_DIR variable description.

This variable plays a much smaller role since recipe-specific
sysroots were implemented.  I have rewritten the description to say
that STAGING_DIR helps construct the recipe-sysroots directory.

(From yocto-docs rev: c1ad18abe67111738efc18725c4f7706b55738cb)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 322ea3c7fd..9fc0a9444b 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -13576,27 +13576,27 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
 
         <glossentry id='var-STAGING_DIR'><glossterm>STAGING_DIR</glossterm>
             <info>
-                STAGING_DIR[doc] = "Specifies the path to the top-level sysroots directory (i.e. ${TMPDIR}/sysroots)."
+                STAGING_DIR[doc] = "Helps construct the recipe-sysroots directory, which is used during packaging."
             </info>
             <glossdef>
                 <para role="glossdeffirst">
 <!--                <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> -->
-                    Specifies the path to the top-level sysroots directory
-                    (i.e.
-                    <filename>${</filename><link linkend='var-TMPDIR'><filename>TMPDIR</filename></link><filename>}/sysroots</filename>).
+                    Helps construct the <filename>recipe-sysroots</filename>
+                    directory, which is used during packaging.
                 </para>
 
                 <para>
-                    <filename>STAGING_DIR</filename> contains the directories
-                    that are staged into the sysroot by the
+                    For information on how staging for recipe-specific
+                    sysroots occurs, see the
                     <link linkend='ref-tasks-populate_sysroot'><filename>do_populate_sysroot</filename></link>
-                    task.
-                    See the
-                    <link linkend='var-SYSROOT_DIRS'><filename>SYSROOT_DIRS</filename></link>
-                    variable and the
+                    task, the
                     "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#new-sharing-files-between-recipes'>Sharing Files Between Recipes</ulink>"
-                    section, which is in the Yocto Project Development Tasks
-                    Manual for more information.
+                    section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual, the
+                    "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_OM_URL;#configuration-compilation-and-staging-dev-environment'>Configuration, Compilation, and Staging</ulink>"
+                    section in the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual,
+                    and the
+                    <link linkend='var-SYSROOT_DIRS'><filename>SYSROOT_DIRS</filename></link>
+                    variable.
                     <note>
                         Recipes should never write files directly under
                         the <filename>STAGING_DIR</filename> directory because