Update the 'usage' information displayed by --help in bbimage and bbmake.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/bin/bbimage b/bin/bbimage
index 947d7edb0..217c9e122 100755
--- a/bin/bbimage
+++ b/bin/bbimage
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def usage():
     sys.exit(0)
 
 def version():
-    print "BitBake Build Infrastructure Core version %s" % bb.__version__
+    print "BitBake Build Tool Core version %s" % bb.__version__
     print "BBImage version %s" % __version__
 
 def emit_bb(d, base_d = {}):
diff --git a/bin/bbmake b/bin/bbmake
index 9ff8b1ec2..23a079a9f 100755
--- a/bin/bbmake
+++ b/bin/bbmake
@@ -46,12 +46,13 @@ bbfile_priority = {}
 bbdebug = 0
 
 def handle_options( args ):
-    parser = optparse.OptionParser( version = "BitBake Build Infrastructure Core version %s, %%prog version %s" % ( bb.__version__, __version__ ),
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser( version = "BitBake Build Tool Core version %s, %%prog version %s" % ( bb.__version__, __version__ ),
     usage = """%prog [options] [package ...]
 
-Builds specified packages, expecting that the .bb files
-it has to work from are in BBFILES
-Default packages are all packages in BBFILES.
+Executes the specified task (default is 'build') for a given set of BitBake files.
+It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space seperated list of files to
+be executed.  BBFILES does support wildcards.
+Default packages to be executed are all packages in BBFILES.
 Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.""" )
 
     parser.add_option( "-k", "--continue", help = "continue as much as possible after an error. While the target that failed, and those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the other dependencies of these targets can be processed all the same.",
@@ -61,15 +62,7 @@ Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.""" )
                action = "store_true", dest = "force", default = False )
 
 
-    parser.add_option( "-c", "--cmd", help = "specify command to pass to bbbuild. Valid commands are "
-                                             "'fetch' (fetch all sources), " 
-                                             "'unpack' (unpack the sources), "
-                                             "'patch' (apply the patches), "
-                                             "'configure' (configure the source tree), "
-                                             "'compile' (compile the source tree), "
-                                             "'stage' (install libraries and headers needed for subsequent packages), "
-                                             "'install' (install libraries and executables), and"
-                                             "'package' (package files into the selected package format)",
+    parser.add_option( "-c", "--cmd", help = "Specify task to execute",
                action = "store", dest = "cmd", default = "build" )
 
     parser.add_option( "-r", "--read", help = "read the specified file before bitbake.conf",
@@ -78,7 +71,7 @@ Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.""" )
     parser.add_option( "-v", "--verbose", help = "output more chit-chat to the terminal",
                action = "store_true", dest = "verbose", default = False )
 
-    parser.add_option( "-n", "--dry-run", help = "don't call bbbuild, just go through the motions",
+    parser.add_option( "-n", "--dry-run", help = "don't execute, just go through the motions",
                action = "store_true", dest = "dry_run", default = False )
 
     parser.add_option( "-p", "--parse-only", help = "quit after parsing the BB files (developers only)",