From: "Joshua Watt" <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
Cc: Joshua Watt <Joshua.Watt@garmin.com>
Subject: [docs][PATCH] dev-manual: Clarify that virtual providers do not apply to runtime dependencies
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:20:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200831172057.34682-1-JPEWhacker@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Joshua Watt <Joshua.Watt@garmin.com>
Clarifies that virtual providers are only used for build time
dependencies specified with PROVIDES and DEPENDS, and do not apply to
runtime dependencies specified with RPROVIDES and RDEPENDS.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <Joshua.Watt@garmin.com>
---
documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 1f24c7343..479ca4f20 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -3214,6 +3214,14 @@
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
+ <note>
+ Virtual providers only apply to build time dependencies with
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PROVIDES'><filename>PROVIDES</filename></ulink>
+ and <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-DEPENDS'><filename>DEPENDS</filename></ulink>.
+ They do not apply to runtime dependencies specified with
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-RPROVIDES'><filename>RPROVIDES</filename></ulink> and
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-RDEPENDS'><filename>RDEPENDS</filename></ulink>.
+ </note>
</section>
<section id='properly-versioning-pre-release-recipes'>
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