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authorPaul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>2011-08-23 16:12:33 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-08-24 19:49:37 -0700
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documentation: clarify specifying a specific package with -e
The -b option is not required to show the environment used to build a specific package; usually the best practice is to specify the package name alone. (From yocto-docs rev: d59772fd7edd76dbc8018479c072badb591601c3) Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
index 4abe93f..b36526e 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
@@ -365,7 +365,8 @@
<para>
The <filename>-e</filename> option dumps the resulting environment for
either the configuration (no package specified) or for a
- specific package when specified with the <filename>-b</filename> option.
+ specific package when specified; or <filename>-b recipename</filename>
+ to show the environment from parsing a single recipe file only.
</para>
</section>
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