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
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Antonin Godard, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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2025-07-07 14:07 should bitbake manual explain "bitbake-getvar"? Robert P. J. Day
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