ref-manual: Review edits to the UPSTREAM_CHECK_* variables.

Applied some review comments.

Fixes [YOCTO #9671]

(From yocto-docs rev: f1630b792063cbfe1cae4994d63ff7031d4dfabf)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark
2016-06-08 10:53:31 -07:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent a8279122b9
commit 1969871269

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@@ -14319,15 +14319,17 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
<glossdef>
<para role="glossdeffirst">
<!-- <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> -->
For recipes that use the
When the
<link linkend='ref-classes-distrodata'><filename>distrodata</filename></link>
class, this variable causes the OpenEmbedded build system
to check for what the latest upstream version is by calling
class is enabled globally, you can perform a check for
what the latest upstream version is by calling
<filename>bitbake -c checkpkg</filename>.
When source code is provided from Git repositories, the
latest upstream version is determined by picking the latest
tag from the list of all repository tags.
You can use the <filename>UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX</filename>
If the recipe source code is provided from Git
repositories, the OpenEmbedded build system determines the
latest upstream version by picking the latest tag from the
list of all repository tags.
You can use the
<filename>UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX</filename>
variable to provide a regular expression to filter only the
relevant tags should the default filter not work
correctly.
@@ -14345,11 +14347,13 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
<glossdef>
<para role="glossdeffirst">
<!-- <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> -->
For recipes that use the
When the
<link linkend='ref-classes-distrodata'><filename>distrodata</filename></link>
class, the <filename>UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX</filename>
variable causes the package checking system to use the
regular expression to parse the page found using
class is enabled globally, use the
<filename>UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX</filename> variable to
specify a different regular expression instead of the
default one when the package checking system is parsing
the page found using
<link linkend='var-UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI'><filename>UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI</filename></link>.
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "package_regex"
@@ -14365,16 +14369,16 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
<glossdef>
<para role="glossdeffirst">
<!-- <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> -->
For recipes that use the
When the
<link linkend='ref-classes-distrodata'><filename>distrodata</filename></link>
class, this variable causes the OpenEmbedded build system
to check for what the latest upstream version is by calling
class is enabled globally, you can perform a check for what
the latest upstream version is by calling
<filename>bitbake -c checkpkg</filename>.
When the source code is provided from tarballs, the latest
If the source code is provided from tarballs, the latest
version is determined by fetching the directory listing
where the tarball is and attempting to find a later tarball.
When this approach does not work,
you can use <filename>UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI</filename> to
When this approach does not work, you can use
<filename>UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI</filename> to
provide a different URI that contains the link to the
latest tarball.
<literallayout class='monospaced'>