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authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2017-01-10 15:32:30 -0800
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2017-01-20 11:57:25 +0000
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ref-manual: Updated LIC_FILES_CHKSUM example
Fixes [YOCTO #10898] No information indicated the use of "endline" and "beginline" in the examples setting LIC_FILES_CHKSUM. I added a note indicating that line numbering starts with one and the "endline" value is inclusive. (From yocto-docs rev: 21114f09efa423033da67af1f27c99eb3cb9695d) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
index 9bb09fb948..61f55bd80a 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
@@ -1445,14 +1445,23 @@
<para>
The <filename>LIC_FILES_CHKSUM</filename>
- variable contains checksums of the license text in the source code for the recipe.
- Following is an example of how to specify <filename>LIC_FILES_CHKSUM</filename>:
+ variable contains checksums of the license text in the source
+ code for the recipe.
+ Following is an example of how to specify
+ <filename>LIC_FILES_CHKSUM</filename>:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=xxxx \
file://licfile1.txt;beginline=5;endline=29;md5=yyyy \
file://licfile2.txt;endline=50;md5=zzzz \
..."
</literallayout>
+ <note>
+ When using "beginline" and "endline", realize that line
+ numbering begins with one and not zero.
+ Also, the lines included are inclusive (e.g. lines five
+ through 29 in the previous example for
+ <filename>licfile1.txt</filename>.
+ </note>
</para>
<para>
@@ -1474,7 +1483,8 @@
<para>
The first line locates a file in
- <filename>${S}/src/ls.c</filename>.
+ <filename>${S}/src/ls.c</filename> and isolates lines five
+ through 16 as license text.
The second line refers to a file in
<filename><link linkend='var-WORKDIR'>WORKDIR</link></filename>.
</para>