Re: [Webhob] updating documentation.conf

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Thursday 22 August 2013 16:02:05 Damian, Alexandru wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Barros Pena, Belen <
> belen.barros.pena@intel.com> wrote:
> > The information I added to documentation.conf is now showing up in Web Hob
> > (thanks, Alex!).
> > 
> > Looking at it, it seems that the description is not picked up for
> > variables with a suffix (things like PREFERRED_PROVIDER_xyz). Could that
> > be fixed? Do you want an issue in Bugzilla for this?
>
> not sure how this should be handled, Paul thinks it should be in there ?
> 
> AFAIK, suffixed variables get used instead of the normal ones, so they are
> more like replacements.
> I guess the design ask that we should the only the variables with doc
> attached, so they would be hidden.
> 
> Isn't this the case ?

I think that variables like PREFERRED_PROVIDER are kind of a special case - 
their overrides will never be in OVERRIDES except when bitbake is reading from 
them. If we want to show them in the variables list then we might have to 
handle them specially (or just do something like cut the variable name back to 
the last capital letter in order to look up the doc flag).

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre