From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 6422FE0083A; Sat, 10 Jan 2015 03:21:05 -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 B0716E0070B for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2015 03:20:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [70.30.87.145] (port=33034 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9u5x-0006R1-9r; Sat, 10 Jan 2015 06:20:41 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 06:20:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Paul Eggleton In-Reply-To: <1504189.z9eEVMXmIC@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <1504189.z9eEVMXmIC@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> 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: Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org, Scott Rifenbark Subject: Re: 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: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 11:21:05 -0000 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323328-1128656029-1420888842=:5533" --8323328-1128656029-1420888842=:5533 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Paul Eggleton wrote: ... my original confusion and whining about DISTRO_PN_ALIAS section in dev manual snipped ... > I'm not entirely sure how that section came to be written on its > own, because it isn't at all useful and should probably be removed > to save people confusion. DISTRO_PN_ALIAS is related to the mostly > undocumented distrodata.bbclass that is supposed to help with > managing recipe updates; I think the idea was to make a comparison > with packages available in mainstream Linux distros but what it > actually does for you in practice based on the code I can find > doesn't seem to be very much. > > FYI, the reason distrodata has remained mostly undocumented is that > we've had a plan to try to refactor and improve it for several years > now, but it hasn't been as high a priority as we would have liked. > There has been some renewed activity lately however - Aníbal Limón > is working on the Recipe Reporting Service to replace what is up at > packages.yoctoproject.org, and it should make it easier for people > whose job it is to maintain recipes to track the current status with > respect to upstream releases. It's being built on top of the > OpenEmbedded Layer Index application. ok, so i'm just going to ignore this variable for the time being and let the higher powers deal with it. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== --8323328-1128656029-1420888842=:5533--