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author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2013-03-26 12:02:28 -0700 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-04-04 14:12:52 +0100 |
commit | 826d56d743fe15805cc004e10c1ee5b4fc0f69a9 (patch) | |
tree | 9971b9087b1541544b1e6558304075ec011c66c7 /documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml | |
parent | 36afaaf02691d4b9cef3b0c049c8f950d44ce2d6 (diff) | |
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ref-manual: Active voice applied to "Debugging" section.
(From yocto-docs rev: 891d6b7eed39c457334ed0956d41f4c873392855)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml index 07427b4..73d27c4 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml @@ -529,22 +529,22 @@ <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>Whenever a shared state package is written out, so is a corresponding <filename>.siginfo</filename> file. - This practice results in a pickled python database of all + This practice results in a pickled Python database of all the metadata that went into creating the hash for a given shared state package.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>If BitBake is run with the <filename>--dump-signatures</filename> + <listitem><para>If you run BitBake with the <filename>--dump-signatures</filename> (or <filename>-S</filename>) option, BitBake dumps out <filename>.siginfo</filename> files in the stamp directory for every task it would have executed instead of building the specified target package.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>There is a <filename>bitbake-diffsigs</filename> command that - can process these <filename>.siginfo</filename> files. - If one file is specified, it will dump out the dependency + can process <filename>.siginfo</filename> files. + If you specify one of these files, BitBake dumps out the dependency information in the file. - If two files are specified, it will compare the two files and dump out + If you specify two files, BitBake compares the two files and dumps out the differences between the two. - This allows the question of "What changed between X and Y?" to be - answered easily.</para></listitem> + This more easily helps answer the question of "What + changed between X and Y?"</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </section> |