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authorMichael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>2021-07-22 19:10:21 +0200
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2021-08-02 16:07:12 +0100
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doc: bitbake-user-manual: fix syntax in example and improve description
The previous syntax of the example was clearly incorrect The example and description were also ambiguous, one could think that it was "bitbake recipe" instead of "bitbake <recipename>" Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
index 372926064..6b88fd11e 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
@@ -91,9 +91,10 @@ level changes:
Variables that are exported to the environment are preceded by the
string "export" in the command's output.
-- For recipe changes, use the following::
+- To find changes to a given variable in a specific recipe, use the
+ following::
- $ bitbake recipe -e \| grep VARIABLE="
+ $ bitbake recipename -e | grep VARIABLENAME=\"
This command checks to see if the variable actually makes
it into a specific recipe.