should list of "Variable Flags" include "fakeroot"?

should list of "Variable Flags" include "fakeroot"?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  user manual, "3.6 Variable Flags" includes "fakeroot" as one of the
numerous flags, but that section claims that all of those flags can be
set using the standard variable syntax. but IIRC, fakeroot is set as
an *attribute* on tasks these days, as in:

  fakeroot tar_sdk() {

so how should that entry be worded/reworded? unless i'm misreading
something.

rday

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Re: should list of "Variable Flags" include "fakeroot"?

[Christopher Larson]

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On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>   user manual, "3.6 Variable Flags" includes "fakeroot" as one of the
> numerous flags, but that section claims that all of those flags can be
> set using the standard variable syntax. but IIRC, fakeroot is set as
> an *attribute* on tasks these days, as in:
>
>   fakeroot tar_sdk() {
>
> so how should that entry be worded/reworded? unless i'm misreading
> something.
>

It likely shouldn't be mentioned as a flag. The fact that it's a flag
internally is a bitbake implementation detail that likely isn't something
they need to be aware of, in my personal opinion, anyway.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics

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Re: should list of "Variable Flags" include "fakeroot"?

[Robert P. J. Day]

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On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Christopher Larson wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>         user manual, "3.6 Variable Flags" includes "fakeroot" as one of the
>       numerous flags, but that section claims that all of those flags can be
>       set using the standard variable syntax. but IIRC, fakeroot is set as
>       an *attribute* on tasks these days, as in:
>
>         fakeroot tar_sdk() {
>
>       so how should that entry be worded/reworded? unless i'm misreading
>       something.
>
>
> It likely shouldn't be mentioned as a flag. The fact that it's a
> flag internally is a bitbake implementation detail that likely isn't
> something they need to be aware of, in my personal opinion, anyway.

  that's the way i read it ... all the underlying support code still
treats it as a "flag", but since i see no usage of it with the flag
syntax, i'll just submit a patch to delete it from the flag list,
assuming it's discussed adequately elsewhere.

rday

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