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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2013-08-07 14:29:43 +0300
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2013-08-13 13:18:52 +0100
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ref-manual: Added a glossary entry for the EXTENDPKGV variable.
(From yocto-docs rev: 87ccd9f922db081c8848bc543b96859600b1a86b) 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/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
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+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -1040,6 +1040,27 @@ Core layer for images cannot be removed
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-EXTENDPKGV'><glossterm>EXTENDPKGV</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ The full package version specification as it appears on the
+ final packages produced by a recipe.
+ The variable's value is normally used to fix a runtime
+ dependency to the exact same version of another package
+ in the same recipe:
+ <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+ RDEPENDS_${PN}-additional-module = "${PN} (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
+ </literallayout>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The dependency relationships are intended to force the
+ package manager to upgrade these types of packages in
+ lock-step.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-EXTENDPE'><glossterm>EXTENDPE</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
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