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authorJacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com>2020-05-26 21:21:46 +0200
committerSteve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>2020-06-01 12:55:20 -1000
commite4695176ffdc5eb959f71a08f77ff6a8e028ffa9 (patch)
treeb036c0c2103a607de9e651d62037acaaecff2cce
parent25c5c79bbe814eaff03c72cc2680414a73cff7f4 (diff)
downloadbitbake-e4695176ffdc5eb959f71a08f77ff6a8e028ffa9.tar.gz
doc: Clarify how task dependencies relate to RDEPENDS
Clarify that BitBake knows how to map entries defined in the runtime dependency namespace back to build-time dependencies (recipes) in which tasks are defined. Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> (cherry picked from commit caf422435ad64aacbdab8a94da3115599dd0938b) Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
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diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
index 10b588352..95a8b95b1 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
@@ -2526,6 +2526,9 @@
In the previous example, the <filename>do_packagedata</filename>
task of each item in <filename>RDEPENDS</filename> must have
completed before <filename>do_package_qa</filename> can execute.
+ Although <filename>RDEPENDS</filename> contains entries from the
+ runtime dependency namespace, BitBake knows how to map them back
+ to the build-time dependency namespace, in which the tasks are defined.
</para>
</section>