From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id EED57E0090F; Fri, 9 Jan 2015 09:19:40 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com (astoria.ccjclearline.com [64.235.106.9]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71115E0070B for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2015 09:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [70.30.87.145] (port=59097 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9dDh-0004El-EI for yocto@yoctoproject.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:19:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 12:19:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Yocto discussion 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 - yoctoproject.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: admittedly simple questions about DISTRO_PN_ALIAS X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:19:41 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII (i'm in a proofreading mood today ...) reading dev manual here: http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.7/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#usingpoky-configuring-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS and first silly question -- what is the *purpose* of that variable? as in, what effect will it have on the eventual image? what difference will it make that, say, in fedora, a recipe would produce a package with a slightly different name? that section doesn't really explain that, as far as i can tell. next, i can see the collection of those settings in the file meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc, which has some odd lines. for example: DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-blktool = "Debian=blktool Mandriva=blktool" what's the value of defining an alleged alias that simply has the same name? what is happening here? oh, and there's this amusing example: DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-bjam = "OpenSuSE=boost-jam Debina=bjam" ^^^^^^ but since the recipe name is the *same*, i'm guessing that doesn't cause a problem. finally, the dev manual doesn't explain the meaning of lines like: DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-adt-installer = "Intel" DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-alsa-state = "OE-Core" DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-bdwgc = "OSPDT" in short, i can appreciate the *concept* of what might be happening in that short section, while still having no idea what value it has or how a developer might use it. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================