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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Sunday 24 November 2013 06:18:55 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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>
> 
> ---
> 
> 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'>

What's missing from this is something like "caution - poky-bleeding is not 
tested on a regular basis, if it breaks you get to keep all of the pieces"

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre