[yocto] of recipes and packages

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon <jefro at jefro.net> wrote:
>> In this case, bitbake is looking for the expiration dates on your
>> ingredients - the version of the package that each recipe builds.
>
> But your wording would seem to imply _a_ recipe builds _a_ package.
> But a recipe doesn't build a package, a recipe potentially builds lots
> of packages. For example the "net-snmp" recipe builds the following
> packages: "net-snmp-dbg net-snmp-doc net-snmp-dev net-snmp-staticdev
> net-snmp-static net-snmp-libs net-snmp-mibs net-snmp-server
> net-snmp-client"
>
> "bitbake -s" doesn't list "net-snmp-dbg net-snmp-doc net-snmp-dev..."
> it lists "net-snmp". Therefore couldn't the wording of the bitbake
> help be improved to say:
>
> -s, --show-versions   show current and preferred versions of all __recipes__
>
> instead of:


It could, and should, be changed in that way, yes.
-- 
Christopher Larson