Bug 12032

Summary:	Explain differences between inherit and require/include directives
Product:	[Documentation] BitBake User Manual	Reporter:	caio.oliveira
Component:	bitbake-manual	Assignee:	Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	bluelightning, kristi, srifenbark
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	2.4 M4
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:	26 Sept 2017: RESOLVED
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Done (doc changes complete)

Description caio.oliveira 2017-09-01 16:15:55 UTC

The manual introduces 'require' and 'include' without comparing them with 'inherit'.

This email from Paul Eggleton elaborates a bit on the differences and could be a good starting point

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2016-October/032578.html

Comment 1 Scott Rifenbark 2017-09-02 17:01:22 UTC

Hi, 

Thanks for pointing out this issue.  I have done a bit of rewriting in the three sections for inherit, include, and require.  Please read through these three sections again and see if the changes have helped address the problem.

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.4/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#inherit-directive

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.4/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#include-directive

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.4/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html#require-inclusion

Thanks,
Scott

Comment 2 Scott Rifenbark 2017-09-25 15:46:59 UTC

No review comments so marking as RESOLVED.  Setting doc flag to "done."