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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index e456d540a0..b42a09bf2b 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -1716,8 +1716,9 @@ <para> If you're working on a recipe that pulls from an external Source Code Manager (SCM), it - is possible to have the OpenEmbedded build system notice new changes added to the - SCM and then build the package that depends on them using the latest version. + is possible to have the OpenEmbedded build system notice new recipe changes added to the + SCM and then build the resulting package that depends on the new recipes by using the latest + versions. This only works for SCMs from which it is possible to get a sensible revision number for changes. Currently, you can do this with Apache Subversion (SVN), Git, and Bazaar (BZR) repositories. </para> @@ -1730,7 +1731,7 @@ SRCREV_pn-<PN> = "${AUTOREV}" </literallayout> where <filename>PN</filename> - is the name of the package for which you want to enable automatic source + is the name of the recipe for which you want to enable automatic source revision updating. </para> </section> |