From 1969871269d845d9de4a61854b71e9a285ee793d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 10:53:31 -0700 Subject: ref-manual: Review edits to the UPSTREAM_CHECK_* variables. Applied some review comments. Fixes [YOCTO #9671] (From yocto-docs rev: f1630b792063cbfe1cae4994d63ff7031d4dfabf) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 38 +++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index d5ff132e43..68ac032949 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -14319,15 +14319,17 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" - For recipes that use the + When the distrodata - class, this variable causes the OpenEmbedded build system - to check for what the latest upstream version is by calling + class is enabled globally, you can perform a check for + what the latest upstream version is by calling bitbake -c checkpkg. - When source code is provided from Git repositories, the - latest upstream version is determined by picking the latest - tag from the list of all repository tags. - You can use the UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX + If the recipe source code is provided from Git + repositories, the OpenEmbedded build system determines the + latest upstream version by picking the latest tag from the + list of all repository tags. + You can use the + UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX variable to provide a regular expression to filter only the relevant tags should the default filter not work correctly. @@ -14345,11 +14347,13 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" - For recipes that use the + When the distrodata - class, the UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX - variable causes the package checking system to use the - regular expression to parse the page found using + class is enabled globally, use the + UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX variable to + specify a different regular expression instead of the + default one when the package checking system is parsing + the page found using UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI. UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "package_regex" @@ -14365,16 +14369,16 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3" - For recipes that use the + When the distrodata - class, this variable causes the OpenEmbedded build system - to check for what the latest upstream version is by calling + class is enabled globally, you can perform a check for what + the latest upstream version is by calling bitbake -c checkpkg. - When the source code is provided from tarballs, the latest + If the source code is provided from tarballs, the latest version is determined by fetching the directory listing where the tarball is and attempting to find a later tarball. - When this approach does not work, - you can use UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI to + When this approach does not work, you can use + UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI to provide a different URI that contains the link to the latest tarball. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf