Re: [PATCH] dmidecode: fix fetch path to use BP

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 05/04/2013 01:11 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Friday 03 May 2013 19:41:03 Darren Hart wrote:
>> On 05/03/2013 04:06 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
>>> This is so the multilib prefix is not used
>>
>> Thanks for catching that Saul. How do we know when to use P and when to
>> use BP? 
> 
> The easiest thing is to imagine what would happen were the recipe to be 
> BBCLASSEXTENDed to native - would xyz-native make sense where you've used the 
> reference, or does it always need to be xyz regardless of how it is being 
> built? If the former, PN (or P with the version); if the latter, BPN (or BP 
> with the version).
> 
>> Where should this be documented? Maybe in the dev manual for
>> writing new recipes?
> 
> It was pointed out recently on IRC that we may need to expand and adjust the 
> section in the dev manual so it provides more of a step-by-step guide to 
> creating a recipe, and I plan to work with Scott to do that for this cycle, so 
> we should be able to include this as part of that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul


Thank you Paul!


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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel