recipetool: improve command-line help

Based on feedback from Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>

(From OE-Core rev: 2c59b2b20c32577085645056e4cbf4f9c259e4d7)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
index 38f5eadaf5..290fc1386b 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
@@ -406,10 +406,12 @@ def convert_debian(debpath):
 
 
 def register_command(subparsers):
-    parser_create = subparsers.add_parser('create', help='Create a new recipe')
+    parser_create = subparsers.add_parser('create',
+                                          help='Create a new recipe',
+                                          description='Creates a new recipe from a source tree')
     parser_create.add_argument('source', help='Path or URL to source')
-    parser_create.add_argument('-o', '--outfile', help='Full path and filename to recipe to add', required=True)
+    parser_create.add_argument('-o', '--outfile', help='Specify filename for recipe to create', required=True)
     parser_create.add_argument('-m', '--machine', help='Make recipe machine-specific as opposed to architecture-specific', action='store_true')
-    parser_create.add_argument('-x', '--externalsrc', help='Assuming source is a URL, fetch it and extract it to the specified directory')
+    parser_create.add_argument('-x', '--extract-to', metavar='EXTRACTPATH', help='Assuming source is a URL, fetch it and extract it to the directory specified as %(metavar)s')
     parser_create.set_defaults(func=create_recipe)