should yocto ref manual variable glossary include bitbake variables?

should yocto ref manual variable glossary include bitbake variables?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  more pedantry -- reading both the bitbake user manual and the yocto
reference manual variable glossaries:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#ref-variables-glossary
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-variables-glos

and i notice, as a single example, the first mentions the variable
ASSUME_PROVIDED while the second does not. is this deliberate? is
there an explicit distinguishing of variables that belong to different
layers of the build system across the variable glossaries in different
manuals?

rday

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Re: should yocto ref manual variable glossary include bitbake variables?

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

These two glossaries are not replicates of each other by design.  You might notice also that some definitions for the same variable differ as well.  The intent is to have the variables in ref-manual be specific (if possible) for YP and the ones in bitbake-user-manual to be specific for that context.

Scott

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>Subject: [yocto] should yocto ref manual variable glossary include bitbake
>variables?
>
>
>  more pedantry -- reading both the bitbake user manual and the yocto
>reference manual variable glossaries:
>
>http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-
>user-manual.html#ref-variables-glossary
>http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-
>variables-glos
>
>and i notice, as a single example, the first mentions the variable
>ASSUME_PROVIDED while the second does not. is this deliberate? is there an
>explicit distinguishing of variables that belong to different layers of the build
>system across the variable glossaries in different manuals?
>
>rday
>
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Re: should yocto ref manual variable glossary include bitbake variables?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 17 June 2014 13:52:52 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> These two glossaries are not replicates of each other by design.  You might
> notice also that some definitions for the same variable differ as well. 
> The intent is to have the variables in ref-manual be specific (if possible)
> for YP and the ones in bitbake-user-manual to be specific for that context.

FYI there is an open task to bring some of the variable definitions added to 
the BitBake manual over to the Yocto Project Reference Manual and extend them 
if they have enhanced behaviour with the OE metadata; IIRC it was on my todo 
list to do give Scott the list of variables to bring over.

Cheers,
Paul

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