[yocto] of recipes and packages

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 22 August 2012 13:05:15 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> to discover the list of available recipes (for a given set of layers)
> one can use:
> $ bitbake -s
> 
> However:
> 
> $ bitbake --help | grep -- -s
> ...
>   -s, --show-versions   show current and preferred versions of all packages
> ...
> 
> "...versions of all _packages_"!? Shouldn't that be "recipes"?

It should, yes. FYI a long time ago we just used the word "package" to 
describe both the recipe and the output package - eventually it was realised 
that this was confusing and it was changed; however there are still odd 
vestiges of it in a few places, one of which you just pointed out. In this 
instance we can change it very easily in the BitBake help text and we should 
do so.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre