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authorRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2017-04-05 09:37:59 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2017-04-05 09:38:01 +0100
commit751c9dc51fd01fa64a1ff37ba2638110335f71af (patch)
tree479f174d7d24a80132f55ec53c76d03d1d735c18 /doc
parentc1780bc1872bb35bc28c76eff9110717f02d9db2 (diff)
downloadbitbake-751c9dc51fd01fa64a1ff37ba2638110335f71af.tar.gz
fetch/local: Drop FILESDIR
This has long since been deprecated and is no longer used anywhere, FILESPATH is the commonly used varaible which offers much more flexibility. Remove the FILESDIR code and references from bitbake. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml9
-rw-r--r--doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml18
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml
index 3f1d8eb52..d1ce43e23 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml
@@ -268,15 +268,6 @@
<link linkend='var-FILESPATH'><filename>FILESPATH</filename></link>
variable is used in the same way
<filename>PATH</filename> is used to find executables.
- Failing that,
- <link linkend='var-FILESDIR'><filename>FILESDIR</filename></link>
- is used to find the appropriate relative file.
- <note>
- <filename>FILESDIR</filename> is deprecated and can
- be replaced with <filename>FILESPATH</filename>.
- Because <filename>FILESDIR</filename> is likely to be
- removed, you should not use this variable in any new code.
- </note>
If the file cannot be found, it is assumed that it is available in
<link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link>
by the time the <filename>download()</filename> method is called.
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml
index 66d8f844e..0e89bf239 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml
@@ -1539,24 +1539,6 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
- <glossentry id='var-FILESDIR'><glossterm>FILESDIR</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Specifies directories BitBake uses when searching for
- patches and files.
- The "local" fetcher module uses these directories when
- handling <filename>file://</filename> URLs if the file
- was not found using
- <link linkend='var-FILESPATH'><filename>FILESPATH</filename></link>.
- <note>
- The <filename>FILESDIR</filename> variable is
- deprecated and you should use
- <filename>FILESPATH</filename> in all new code.
- </note>
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
<glossentry id='var-FILESPATH'><glossterm>FILESPATH</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>