Bug 9968

Summary: Suggested fleshing out of the do_populate_sysroot documentation
Product: [Documentation] Reference Reporter: ulfalizer
Component: handbookAssignee: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Undecided CC: bluelightning, poky.doc.watcher, poky.watcher, srifenbark
Version: 2.2   
Target Milestone: 2.2 M3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: 18 July 2016: IN PROGRESS REVIEW
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Done (doc changes complete)

Description ulfalizer 2016-07-18 09:52:17 UTC
The first sentence of '8.1.24 do_populate_sysroot' could be changed from

  Copies a subset of the files installed by the do_install
  task into the sysroot to make them available to other recipes.

to

  Copies a subset of the files installed by the do_install
  task into the sysroot directory ${STAGING_DIR_HOST} to make
  them available to other recipes.

to make it explicit where the sysroot is.

(staging.bbclass has 

  do_populate_sysroot[sstate-outputdirs] = "${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/")
Comment 1 Scott Rifenbark 2016-07-18 19:33:36 UTC
Ulf, 

See http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-tasks-populate_sysroot and let me know.

Thanks, 
Scott
Comment 2 ulfalizer 2016-07-18 19:38:34 UTC
${STAGING_DIR_HOST} ought to be linkified as well.

Cheers,
Ulf
Comment 3 Scott Rifenbark 2016-07-18 20:46:32 UTC
I like that word - "linkified"  


Done. 

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-tasks-populate_sysroot

Closing the bug out. 

Again - thanks for the effort Ulf!

Scott