From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com (astoria.ccjclearline.com [64.235.106.9]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E546FFBA for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [69.196.158.250] (port=47898 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WwuBM-0007HJ-5g for bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:16:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:12:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: BitBake developer list Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: some questions about bitbake user manual, fetching chapter X-BeenThere: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussion that advance bitbake development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:16:25 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII working my way thru the fetching chapter, some questions: * manual doesn't explain what happens if you don't supply *both* checksums for downloading -- what if you supply only one? or both and one is correct while the other is incorrect? i think this would be useful info for the reader. * right now, manual says FILESDIR is still "deprecated". is it just deprecated, or is it at the point where it can be killed outright? currently, there's nothing in the entire poky checkout that uses it. have people been given sufficient warning at this point? * i asked about this a long time ago -- in section 4.3.1 (local file fetcher), there's an alleged sample line: SRC_URI = "file://relativefile.patch;this=ignored" "this=ignored"? can that be replaced by, say, a sample line involving "apply=yes" or "apply=no"? or any other relevant examples? i think that's it for now. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================