Hi Jeff, Thanks for your tasty metaphors!
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon <[email protected]> wrote: > In this case, bitbake is looking for the expiration dates on your > ingredients - the version of the package that each recipe builds. But your wording would seem to imply _a_ recipe builds _a_ package. But a recipe doesn't build a package, a recipe potentially builds lots of packages. For example the "net-snmp" recipe builds the following packages: "net-snmp-dbg net-snmp-doc net-snmp-dev net-snmp-staticdev net-snmp-static net-snmp-libs net-snmp-mibs net-snmp-server net-snmp-client" "bitbake -s" doesn't list "net-snmp-dbg net-snmp-doc net-snmp-dev..." it lists "net-snmp". Therefore couldn't the wording of the bitbake help be improved to say: -s, --show-versions show current and preferred versions of all __recipes__ instead of: >> -s, --show-versions show current and preferred versions of all >> __packages__ ? > Chris Hallinan wrote up a good description of many of the terms used Actually I wrote this email after reading his very next blog post: http://blogs.mentor.com/chrishallinan/blog/2012/04/27/more-on-yocto-terminology-recipes-and-packages/ :-) _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
