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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2013-03-26 12:02:28 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2013-04-04 14:12:52 +0100
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ref-manual: Active voice applied to "Debugging" section.
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<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>
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