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 5A36360CEB for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [99.240.204.5] (port=53634 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X5vTz-0001Ka-55 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 07:28:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 07:28:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: OpenEmbedded Development mailing 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: is it "PROVIDES =" or "PROVIDES +=" for setting an alternate name? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:28:53 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII i notice that the OE-core codebase likes to mix these two forms of using PROVIDES. for instance, for a number of libraries to provide their basename, i see stuff like: recipes-graphics/xorg-lib/libxmu_1.1.2.bb:PROVIDES = "xmu" recipes-graphics/xorg-lib/libice_1.0.8.bb:PROVIDES = "ice" recipes-graphics/xorg-lib/libxdamage_1.1.4.bb:PROVIDES = "xdamage" recipes-graphics/xorg-lib/libxfont_1.4.7.bb:PROVIDES = "xfont" recipes-graphics/xorg-lib/libxdmcp_1.1.1.bb:PROVIDES = "xdmcp" on the other hand, there is the occasional example of the same thing that uses "PROVIDES +=" instead: recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre_8.35.bb:PROVIDES += "pcre" is there a deliberate distinction made in the recipes between these two forms? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================