[yocto] What does virtual/ mean?

2013-06-12 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
I see lots of references to virtual/kernel, as opposed to simply kernel. The bitbake docs show virtual/whatever and virtual/package in some of its syntactic examples. But what does the virtual/ prefix actually mean? Google coughs up endless uses of the term, as though everyone knows what it means,

Re: [yocto] What does virtual/ mean?

2013-06-12 Thread Paul Eggleton
Hi Paul, On Wednesday 12 June 2013 01:43:31 Paul D. DeRocco wrote: I see lots of references to virtual/kernel, as opposed to simply kernel. The bitbake docs show virtual/whatever and virtual/package in some of its syntactic examples. But what does the virtual/ prefix actually mean? Google