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author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2012-11-15 15:17:31 -0800 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-12-03 13:52:56 +0000 |
commit | fa30b8b56353adb8f295bcd3926d8d6a7ff45e96 (patch) | |
tree | dec7f6f357335ffd4f3cf16a03728b559167948f /documentation | |
parent | decd7785ad984271d41176ebe0a6f573a392578d (diff) | |
download | poky-fa30b8b56353adb8f295bcd3926d8d6a7ff45e96.tar.gz |
documentation: poky-ref-manual - edits to build history section.
Applied some review comments from Paul Eggleton on the new
build history section. Some minor re-phrasing.
(From yocto-docs rev: 986b0e7d2a79141d7c8dea0062cd25970a74fa57)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml | 21 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml index 567e721e4e..82d2312994 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml | |||
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ | |||
364 | <title>Maintaining Build Output Quality</title> | 364 | <title>Maintaining Build Output Quality</title> |
365 | 365 | ||
366 | <para> | 366 | <para> |
367 | A build's quality can be influenced by several things. | 367 | A build's quality can be influenced by many things. |
368 | For example, if you upgrade a recipe to use a new version of an upstream software | 368 | For example, if you upgrade a recipe to use a new version of an upstream software |
369 | package or you experiment with some new configuration options, subtle changes | 369 | package or you experiment with some new configuration options, subtle changes |
370 | can occur that you might not detect until later. | 370 | can occur that you might not detect until later. |
@@ -413,7 +413,8 @@ | |||
413 | INHERIT += "buildhistory" | 413 | INHERIT += "buildhistory" |
414 | BUILDHISTORY_COMMIT = "1" | 414 | BUILDHISTORY_COMMIT = "1" |
415 | </literallayout> | 415 | </literallayout> |
416 | Enabling build history causes the build process to collect build | 416 | Enabling build history as previously described |
417 | causes the build process to collect build | ||
417 | output information and commit it to a local | 418 | output information and commit it to a local |
418 | <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#git'>Git</ulink> repository. | 419 | <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#git'>Git</ulink> repository. |
419 | <note> | 420 | <note> |
@@ -430,7 +431,9 @@ | |||
430 | build history in this manner can change the | 431 | build history in this manner can change the |
431 | <filename>do_package</filename> task checksums, which if you | 432 | <filename>do_package</filename> task checksums, which if you |
432 | are using the OEBasicHash signature generator (the default | 433 | are using the OEBasicHash signature generator (the default |
433 | for some distro configurations) will result in the packaging | 434 | for many current distro configurations including |
435 | <filename>DISTRO = "poky"</filename> and | ||
436 | <filename>DISRTO = ""</filename>) will result in the packaging | ||
434 | tasks being re-run during the subsequent build. | 437 | tasks being re-run during the subsequent build. |
435 | </para> | 438 | </para> |
436 | 439 | ||
@@ -531,8 +534,9 @@ | |||
531 | filenames.</para></listitem> | 534 | filenames.</para></listitem> |
532 | </itemizedlist> | 535 | </itemizedlist> |
533 | <note> | 536 | <note> |
534 | Installed package information is able to be gathered and | 537 | Installed package information is able to be gathered and |
535 | produced even if packaging is disabled for the final image. | 538 | produced even if package management is disabled for the final |
539 | image. | ||
536 | </note> | 540 | </note> |
537 | </para> | 541 | </para> |
538 | 542 | ||
@@ -561,8 +565,8 @@ | |||
561 | </para> | 565 | </para> |
562 | </section> | 566 | </section> |
563 | 567 | ||
564 | <section id='limiting-build-history-information'> | 568 | <section id='using-build-history-to-gather-image-information-only'> |
565 | <title>Limiting Build History Information</title> | 569 | <title>Using Build History to Gather Image Information Only</title> |
566 | 570 | ||
567 | <para> | 571 | <para> |
568 | As you can see, build history produces image information, | 572 | As you can see, build history produces image information, |
@@ -570,7 +574,8 @@ | |||
570 | was pulled into the image. | 574 | was pulled into the image. |
571 | If you are just interested in this information and not | 575 | If you are just interested in this information and not |
572 | interested in collecting history or any package information, | 576 | interested in collecting history or any package information, |
573 | you can limit the build history output by adding the following | 577 | you can enable writing only image information without |
578 | any history by adding the following | ||
574 | to your <filename>conf/local.conf</filename> file found in the | 579 | to your <filename>conf/local.conf</filename> file found in the |
575 | <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#build-directory'>Build Directory</ulink>: | 580 | <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#build-directory'>Build Directory</ulink>: |
576 | <literallayout class='monospaced'> | 581 | <literallayout class='monospaced'> |