From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TwJq5-00057B-Ak for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:51:09 +0100 Received: from cpebcc81008dd2c-cmbcc81008dd29.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.253.156.71]:51972 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TwJbB-00088u-O0 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:35:41 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:35:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@oneiric To: OE Core mailing list Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) 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: what means PROV_class-native = ""? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:51:11 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 = "" 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. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================