From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f173.google.com (mail-pf0-f173.google.com [209.85.192.173]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC776FFDC for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:33:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pfnn128 with SMTP id n128so51960279pfn.0 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:33:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=CR45v7RPa75EHLelJpKHvCoGTbbA73G4qGm/iF5ZfXc=; b=ZNbfBmE+fyX+tWTziFPdZTTLNuuAG0mYAGLOh59mwTllFQb1v0n6aNaD7ROpCYqp4j Ya3xj5bRCaF1mNumVW8juuXBjJ0xMNzHYAG5GJ+0lBNGAiyYvFHZQ2U1AEz/8le+gFH8 m2AJhjp3QMJhZGwTWLDISIHS0uMYbbOMHnZ/X41P+52dGVrwylTAgnaga/vis5i4MJlA WnMy4ooWhCOLBQFOh4hDt2FQYUa7rC7x/GJJQrQ7zQhfKDec96ON5CSJZY43Cbe+f9Ul 8fZuxQytiVXl9/qEEYy99cytFac6hH0VzPd99GUbe7ZsWEWOiePtWJh9qXLOR1D54RtV 80iQ== X-Received: by 10.98.68.83 with SMTP id r80mr8903570pfa.120.1449772414237; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:33:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from e6520.cablelabs.com (50-204-102-64-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [50.204.102.64]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e14sm17907973pap.24.2015.12.10.10.33.32 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:33:32 -0800 (PST) From: Andre McCurdy To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:33:27 -0800 Message-Id: <1449772407-30369-1-git-send-email-armccurdy@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 Subject: [PATCH] documentation.conf: document PREFERRED_VERSION wildcard limitations X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:33:38 -0000 PREFERRED_VERSION values containing the '%' wildcard should only be used when the wildcard pattern is known to only match one available recipe. See longer explanation in: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.bitbake.devel/1038 Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy --- meta/conf/documentation.conf | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf index 845559a..c31c217 100644 --- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf +++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ PN[doc] = "PN refers to a recipe name in the context of a file used by the OpenE PNBLACKLIST[doc] = "Lists recipes you do not want the OpenEmbedded build system to build." PR[doc] = "The revision of the recipe. The default value for this variable is 'r0'." PREFERRED_PROVIDER[doc] = "If multiple recipes provide an item, this variable determines which recipe should be given preference." -PREFERRED_VERSION[doc] = "If there are multiple versions of recipes available, this variable determines which recipe should be given preference." +PREFERRED_VERSION[doc] = "If there are multiple versions of recipes available, this variable determines which recipe should be given preference. The '%' wildcard is supported but should be used with care, results are unpredictable if it matches more than one available version." PREMIRRORS[doc] = "Specifies additional paths from which the OpenEmbedded build system gets source code." PRINC[doc] = "Causes the PR variable of .bbappend files to dynamically increment. This increment minimizes the impact of layer ordering. This variable defaults to '0'." PRIORITY[doc] = "Indicates the importance of a package. The default value is 'optional'. Other standard values are 'required', 'standard' and 'extra'." -- 1.9.1