From 411022f8dd1379d870cd7714ff2f2dd463ee6e7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggleton Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:42:23 +0100 Subject: ref-manual/ref-classes: add note to insane.bbclass section on INSANE_SKIP Performed a few edits to clean up some sentences. Broke one long sentence up into two. (From yocto-docs rev: 7641113906e062b751abb5366827fe302ec4a2b9) Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'documentation/ref-manual') diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml index 9f344a63cd..3abf3e73a8 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml @@ -584,6 +584,25 @@ the specification for .desktop files. + + You can use the WARN_QA and + ERROR_QA variables to control the behavior of + these checks at the global level (i.e. in your custom distro + configuration). + However, to skip one or more checks in recipes, you should use + INSANE_SKIP. + For example, to skip the check for symbolic link + .so files in the main package of a recipe, + add the following to the recipe. + You need to realize that the package name override, in this example + ${PN}, must be used: + + INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "dev-so" + + Please keep in mind that the QA checks exist in order to detect real + or potential problems in the packaged output. + So exercise caution when disabling these checks. +
-- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf