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'>
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