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author | Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com> | 2020-05-26 21:21:46 +0200 |
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committer | Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com> | 2020-06-01 12:55:20 -1000 |
commit | e4695176ffdc5eb959f71a08f77ff6a8e028ffa9 (patch) | |
tree | b036c0c2103a607de9e651d62037acaaecff2cce | |
parent | 25c5c79bbe814eaff03c72cc2680414a73cff7f4 (diff) | |
download | bitbake-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>
-rw-r--r-- | doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
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> |