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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2014-03-21 08:19:33 -0600 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-03-25 12:29:45 +0000 |
| commit | 20a17fd0f91ea2ac27c221094f2645e3f42d76cb (patch) | |
| tree | c6d4f81b589d19b0356861b51de8225dafe7f69d | |
| parent | 4a40d730bd96e13535f08321f312220c5a76d954 (diff) | |
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dev-manual: Added more detail for using an external SCM.
Provided more information based on an IRC conversation that
Richard Purdies saw on #yocto.
Reported-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(From yocto-docs rev: ec28d9f8f01a6e58ade2954e4e6f2ff1c11aa198)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 26 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index ec1e8fc..5dced8b 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -5384,11 +5384,18 @@ </para> <para> - To enable this behavior, simply add the following to the <filename>local.conf</filename> - configuration file found in the - <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#build-directory'>Build Directory</ulink>: + To enable this behavior, the + <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PV'><filename>PV</filename></ulink> + of the recipe needs to reference + <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-SRCPV'><filename>SRCPV</filename></ulink>. + Here is an example: <literallayout class='monospaced'> - SRCREV_pn-<PN> = "${AUTOREV}" + PV = "1.2.3+git${SRCPV} + </literallayout> + Then, you can add the following to your + <filename>local.conf</filename>: + <literallayout class='monospaced'> + SRCREV_pn-<PN> = "${AUTOREF}" </literallayout> <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PN'><filename>PN</filename></ulink> is the name of the recipe for which you want to enable automatic source @@ -5396,7 +5403,16 @@ </para> <para> - In fact, the Yocto Project provides a distribution named + If you do not want to update your local configuration file, you can + add the following directly to the recipe to finish enabling + the feature: + <literallayout class='monospaced'> + SRCREV = "${AUTOREV}" + </literallayout> + </para> + + <para> + The Yocto Project provides a distribution named <filename>poky-bleeding</filename>, whose configuration file contains the line: <literallayout class='monospaced'> |
