As an actual example of using AUTOREV, refer the reader to the Yocto-supplied poky-bleeding distribution.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> --- diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index 6b60445..fba2484 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -4405,6 +4405,36 @@ is the name of the recipe for which you want to enable automatic source revision updating. </para> + + <para> + In fact, the Yocto Project provides a distribution named + <filename>poky-bleeding</filename>, whose configuration file contains + the line: + <literallayout class='monospaced'> + require conf/distro/include/poky-floating-revisions.inc + </literallayout> + which pulls in the listed include file that contains numerous lines of + exactly that form: + <literallayout class='monospaced'> + SRCREV_pn-gconf-dbus ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-matchbox-common ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-matchbox-config-gtk ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-matchbox-desktop ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-matchbox-keyboard ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-matchbox-panel ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-matchbox-panel-2 ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-matchbox-themes-extra ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-matchbox-terminal ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-matchbox-wm ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-matchbox-wm-2 ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-settings-daemon ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-screenshot ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-libfakekey ?= "${AUTOREV}" + SRCREV_pn-oprofileui ?= "${AUTOREV}" + </literallayout> + and so on, allowing the developer to experiment with building a distribution that + tracks the latest development source for numerous packages. + </para> </section> <section id='creating-a-read-only-root-filesystem'> -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto