linux/poky.git/documentation/ref-manual, branch yocto-5.0.5

dev-manual: add bblock documentation

2024-11-09T13:53:57+00:00

bblock is a helper tool to lock/unlock tasks and recipes to specific signatures. Add a documentation page for it. (From yocto-docs rev: e882cb3e5816d081eb05cb83488f286cca70e0c6) Signed-off-by: Julien Stephan Reviewed-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit a082aa39840587d3af6c3f4a2c2747564ca37414) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman

ref-manual: variables: add SIGGEN_LOCKEDSIGS* variables

2024-11-09T13:53:57+00:00

Variables SIGGEN_LOCKEDSIGS, SIGGEN_LOCKEDSIGS_TASKSIG_CHECK and SIGGEN_LOCKEDSIGS_TYPES are used to lock specific tasks to specific signatures. They are used by bitbake -S and bblock, so add documentation for them. (From yocto-docs rev: 2d7795833fb044e2377f042998fe139cd1543d97) Signed-off-by: Julien Stephan Reviewed-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 32e3995bed2836f549866ec3b8ad254bdda37dbf) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman

ref-manual: devtool-reference: document missing commands

2024-11-09T13:53:57+00:00

Give a brief description for important commands that made it into devtool or that were missing from this quick reference document. (From yocto-docs rev: cf679f2aa05ef1b5872d97820629375a5c7f4610) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 6238adae1b072c9e09c558038d397dfac6ec109f) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman

ref-manual: devtool-reference: refresh example outputs

2024-11-09T13:53:57+00:00

Previous outputs were missing some commands and options, some others were obsolete. (From yocto-docs rev: a0b1cec6f572cf7edd0575c70612ee27fe1239b3) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 1c83037707b4c981a70c968ba04ded502f9bffbf) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman

ref-manual: release-process: add a reference to the doc's release

2024-11-09T13:53:57+00:00

When reading the stable releases section, we want to know for which release the documentation was built. Use &DISTRO_NAME; to refer to the current release. Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz (From yocto-docs rev: fb5bbfbe7138ad5643b2929dd77d8cb79bc9c74c) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 05ee6844d710beb844bbdac892888879847f6d22) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman

ref-manual: release-process: update releases.svg with month after "Current"

2024-11-09T13:53:57+00:00

This way we put a timestamp on the image, so that someone looking at the image on an old release tarball has a representation of the release "as of ". Here set "Oct. 24" as it was the last time the file was updated. Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz (From yocto-docs rev: e69a050d6f2350701f1042750b4e38739d3b6402) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 7b62bbec900bc84a31e4686839e774ba7bd5ae9f) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman

ref-manual: release-process: refresh the current LTS releases

2024-10-30T15:30:00+00:00

Mention that Scarthgap the latest LTS in a bullet list next to Kirkstone. Reword the parapraph a bit to make it clearer after this change. Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker (From yocto-docs rev: 0ed10e173457bf28338115a063cfa42c88a541d8) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit afeded9939777d88bf4cb9ebf7a61aadd476642d) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman

ref-manual: release-process: update releases.svg

2024-10-30T15:30:00+00:00

* Add Walnascar release. * Remove dunfell, gatesgarth, hardknott, honister: these release are not supported anymore. Start from kirkstone, which is still supported. (From yocto-docs rev: 098dd6eaa072b96ba34c15616f973f1c03eaee75) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit aa9a580c8c57af4baa4fb24a43487fb7afc258e5) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman

ref-manual: faq: add q&a on class appends

2024-10-30T15:30:00+00:00

Add the suggestion by Richard to the FAQ, with some minor rewordings and additional punctuations. Suggested-by: Richard Purdie Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz (From yocto-docs rev: a030626167905034e24589119453ca6f5fb41cfe) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 2466a5e7973bf6e724f1cf0b42f838065847d283) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman

ref-manual: structure.rst: document missing tmp/ dirs

2024-10-30T15:30:00+00:00

Document `hosttools/`, `pkgdata/` and add some more information on `work-shared/`. Adresses [YOCTO #14543]. Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz (From yocto-docs rev: 5958b3c7546d71fdd1693c26747e0196c6aaf277) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 372b5b4ca55819c294970b20aa8b8d8167144329) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman