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diff --git a/handbook/extendpoky.xml b/handbook/extendpoky.xml index 9d98a3bcca..9c672ec7f5 100644 --- a/handbook/extendpoky.xml +++ b/handbook/extendpoky.xml @@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ SRC_URI += "file://NAME-OF-PATCH.patch;patch=1" </section> <section id='usingpoky-configuring-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM'> - <title>configuring the LIC_FILES_CHKSUM variable</title> + <title>Configuring the LIC_FILES_CHKSUM variable</title> <para> The changes in the license text inside source code files is tracked using the LIC_FILES_CHKSUM metadata variable. @@ -885,7 +885,50 @@ specify "beginline" and "endline" parameters. </tip> </section> </section> + <section id='usingpoky-configuring-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS'> + <title>Configuring the DISTRO_PN_ALIAS variable</title> + <para> +Sometimes the names of the same packages are different in different +linux distributions; and that can becomes an issue for the distro_check +task to check if the given recipe package exists in other linux distros. +This issue is avoided by defining per distro recipe name alias: +DISTRO_PN_ALIAS + </para> + + <section id='usingpoky-specifying-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS'> + <title>Specifying the DISTRO_PN_ALIAS variable </title> + + <programlisting> +DISTRO_PN_ALIAS = "distro1=package_name_alias1; distro2=package_name_alias2 \ + distro3=package_name_alias3; \ + ..." + </programlisting> + <para> +Look at the meta/packages/xorg-app/xset_1.0.4.bb recipe file for an example. + </para> + <tip> + <para> +The current code can check if the src package for a recipe exists in the latest +releases of these distributions automatically. + </para> + <programlisting> +Fedora, OpenSuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva + </programlisting> + <para> +For example, this command will generate a report, listing which linux distros include the +sources for each of the poky recipe. + </para> + <programlisting> +bitbake world -f -c distro_check + </programlisting> + <para> +The results will be stored in the build/tmp/log/distro_check-${DATETIME}.results file. + </para> + </tip> + </section> + </section> </chapter> + <!-- vim: expandtab tw=80 ts=4 --> |