All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [yocto-dosc][PATCH] dev-manual: Mention wildcard bbappends, grammar fix.
@ 2014-07-25 17:57 Robert P. J. Day
  0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Robert P. J. Day @ 2014-07-25 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Yocto discussion list


Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

---

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
index 434a7d1..0f7708e 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
@@ -511,6 +511,10 @@
                 <para>Information in append files overrides the information in the similarly-named recipe file.
                 For an example of an append file in use, see the
                 "<link linkend='using-bbappend-files'>Using .bbappend Files</link>" section.
+                <note>
+                    Append files can also use wildcard patterns in their version numbers
+                    so they can be applied to more than one version of the underlying recipe file.
+                </note>
                 </para></listitem>
             <listitem><para id='bitbake-term'><emphasis>BitBake:</emphasis>
                 The task executor and scheduler used by the OpenEmbedded build
@@ -686,7 +690,7 @@
                 This Metadata is found in the <filename>meta</filename> directory of the
                 <link linkend='source-directory'>Source Directory</link>.</para></listitem>
             <listitem><para><emphasis>Package:</emphasis>
-                In the context of the Yocto Project, this term refers a
+                In the context of the Yocto Project, this term refers to a
                 recipe's packaged output produced by BitBake (i.e. a
                 "baked recipe").
                 A package is generally the compiled binaries produced from the

-- 

========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
                        http://crashcourse.ca

Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn:                               http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
========================================================================



^ permalink raw reply related	[flat|nested] only message in thread

only message in thread, other threads:[~2014-07-25 17:57 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2014-07-25 17:57 [yocto-dosc][PATCH] dev-manual: Mention wildcard bbappends, grammar fix Robert P. J. Day

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.