From 4e83d80b907ccfcfab410ea5369b2ea95e37073c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:28:05 -0600
Subject: ref-manual: Edits to the package_tar class.

Turns out you can specify this using the PACKAGE_CLASSES
variable but you better not list it first.

(From yocto-docs rev: 9b160b15b3508e360fd57ac4375867d58cdc9709)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml')

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
index bd4f8629da..b6125a5fa1 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
@@ -1976,7 +1976,16 @@
     <para>
         This class inherits the
         <link linkend='ref-classes-package'><filename>package</filename></link>
-        class and is for a given recipe when the recipe inherits the class.
+        class and is enabled through the
+        <link linkend='var-PACKAGE_CLASSES'><filename>PACKAGE_CLASSES</filename></link>
+        variable in the <filename>local.conf</filename> file.
+        <note>
+            You cannot specify the <filename>package_tar</filename> class
+            first using the <filename>PACKAGE_CLASSES</filename> variable.
+            You must use <filename>.deb</filename>,
+            <filename>.ipk</filename>, or <filename>.rpm</filename> file
+            formats for your image or SDK.
+        </note>
     </para>
 </section>
 
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