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authorPaul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>2015-12-22 17:03:05 +1300
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2015-12-22 16:44:03 +0000
commit2103fa9dc7faf2189c8b426b87fb9d421a9983ac (patch)
tree75f85200142059fc5ffb0df9054335157c113074 /scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
parentdbfe8fa2e86c2bb50bef47c389017cdf93543321 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-2103fa9dc7faf2189c8b426b87fb9d421a9983ac.tar.gz
devtool: add: tweak help text
Add a few clarifying words. Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py')
-rw-r--r--scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
index c11de9d35d..57175a449a 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ def edit_recipe(args, config, basepath, workspace):
def register_commands(subparsers, context):
"""Register devtool subcommands from this plugin"""
parser_add = subparsers.add_parser('add', help='Add a new recipe',
- description='Adds a new recipe to the workspace to build a specified source tree')
+ description='Adds a new recipe to the workspace to build a specified source tree. Can optionally fetch a remote URI and unpack it to create the source tree.')
parser_add.add_argument('recipename', help='Name for new recipe to add (just name - no version, path or extension)')
parser_add.add_argument('srctree', help='Path to external source tree')
group = parser_add.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ def register_commands(subparsers, context):
parser_add.add_argument('--fetch', '-f', help='Fetch the specified URI and extract it to create the source tree', metavar='URI')
parser_add.add_argument('--version', '-V', help='Version to use within recipe (PV)')
parser_add.add_argument('--no-git', '-g', help='If -f/--fetch is specified, do not set up source tree as a git repository', action="store_true")
- parser_add.add_argument('--binary', '-b', help='Treat the source tree as something that should be installed verbatim (no compilation, same directory structure)', action='store_true')
+ parser_add.add_argument('--binary', '-b', help='Treat the source tree as something that should be installed verbatim (no compilation, same directory structure). Useful with binary packages e.g. RPMs.', action='store_true')
parser_add.set_defaults(func=add)
parser_modify = subparsers.add_parser('modify', help='Modify the source for an existing recipe',