From: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>,
OE Core mailing list <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: what means PROV_class-native = ""?
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:57:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F9C550.5040507@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130118214509.GC29386@jama.palm1.palmone.com>
On 01/18/2013 01:45 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 04:35:34PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>> perusing oe-core for examples to demonstrate the concept of
>> "PROVIDES =", and i ran across this in recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc:
>>
>> PROV = "virtual/update-alternatives"
>> PROV_class-native = ""
>
> PROV is variable with no special meaning
> class-native is standard override for native recipe (like
> virtclass-native was before).
>
>> PROVIDES += "${PROV}"
>>
>> i'm not sure what to make of that -- what's the purpose of assigning
>> to PROV, then subsequently assigning to PROVIDES, but with that
>>
>> PROV_class-native = ""
>>
>> line in between? i did a grep and saw nothing else like it throughout
>> oe-core.
>>
I believe that idea is since it's PROVIDES += , not a straight
assignment like = it's not a simple to override with the +=, so for the
target case PROVIDE the virtual/u-a, but not for the native case of that
package.
If it was a straight assignment (using =) the ${PROV} would not be needed.
Sau!
>> rday
>>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-18 21:35 what means PROV_class-native = ""? Robert P. J. Day
2013-01-18 21:45 ` Martin Jansa
2013-01-18 21:57 ` Saul Wold [this message]
2013-01-18 22:06 ` Robert P. J. Day
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