[yocto] [PATCH] Documentation: dev manual, add a reference to poky-bleeding distro

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sun Nov 24 03:18:55 PST 2013


As an actual example of using AUTOREV, refer the reader to the
Yocto-supplied poky-bleeding distribution.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>

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diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 6b60445..fba2484 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -4405,6 +4405,36 @@
             is the name of the recipe for which you want to enable automatic source
             revision updating.
         </para>
+
+        <para>
+            In fact, the Yocto Project provides a distribution named
+            <filename>poky-bleeding</filename>, whose configuration file contains
+            the line:
+            <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+     require conf/distro/include/poky-floating-revisions.inc
+            </literallayout>
+            which pulls in the listed include file that contains numerous lines of
+            exactly that form:
+            <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+     SRCREV_pn-gconf-dbus ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-common ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-config-gtk ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-desktop ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-keyboard ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-panel ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-panel-2 ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-themes-extra ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-terminal ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-wm ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-matchbox-wm-2 ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-settings-daemon ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-screenshot ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-libfakekey ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+     SRCREV_pn-oprofileui ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+            </literallayout>
+            and so on, allowing the developer to experiment with building a distribution that
+            tracks the latest development source for numerous packages.
+            </para>
     </section>

     <section id='creating-a-read-only-root-filesystem'>

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