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From: "Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
	"YP docs mailing list" <docs@lists.yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [docs] should bitbake manual explain "bitbake-getvar"?
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:20:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB6K9VIZX58R.2SOMXERAQNX2V@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10a3c9a6-fc05-0c22-804e-0fcc7a9c350a@crashcourse.ca>

On Mon Jul 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>   i note that near the end of this section:
>
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/2.12/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.html#modifying-existing-variables
>
> the reader is advised to display the value of a variable with:
>
> $ bitbake recipename -e | grep VARIABLENAME=\"
>
>   but the same effect can obviously be done with "bitbake-getvar".
> should the bitbake manual cover some of those extra utilities?

Sure, please, send a patch.

Antonin

-- 
Antonin Godard, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com



      reply	other threads:[~2025-07-08  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-07 14:07 should bitbake manual explain "bitbake-getvar"? Robert P. J. Day
2025-07-08  9:20 ` Antonin Godard [this message]

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