diff --git a/documentation/contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst b/documentation/contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst index 99105179a6..1a1c1c6ee2 100644 --- a/documentation/contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst +++ b/documentation/contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst @@ -7,17 +7,18 @@ Recipe Naming Conventions ========================= In general, most recipes should follow the naming convention -``recipes-category/package/packagename_version.bb``. Recipes for related -projects may share the same package directory. ``packagename``, ``category``, -and ``package`` may contain hyphens, but hyphens are not allowed in ``version``. +``recipes-category/recipename/recipename_version.bb``. Recipes for related +projects may share the same recipe directory. ``recipename`` and ``category`` +may contain hyphens, but hyphens are not allowed in ``version``. If the recipe is tracking a Git revision that does not correspond to a released -version of the software, ``version`` may be ``git`` (e.g. ``packagename_git.bb``) +version of the software, ``version`` may be ``git`` (e.g. ``recipename_git.bb``) +and the recipe would set :term:`PV`. Version Policy ============== -Our versions follow the form ``:-`` +Our versions follow the form ``:-`` or in BitBake variable terms ${:term:`PE`}:${:term:`PV`}-${:term:`PR`}. We generally follow the `Debian `__ version policy which defines these terms. @@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ In most cases the version :term:`PV` will be set automatically from the recipe file name. It is recommended to use released versions of software as these are revisions that upstream are expecting people to use. -Package versions should always compare and sort correctly so that upgrades work +Recipe versions should always compare and sort correctly so that upgrades work as expected. With conventional versions such as ``1.4`` upgrading ``to 1.5`` this happens naturally, but some versions don't sort. For example, ``1.5 Release Candidate 2`` could be written as ``1.5rc2`` but this sorts after @@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ Version Number Changes The :term:`PR` variable is used to indicate different revisions of a recipe that reference the same upstream source version. It can be used to force a -new version of a package to be installed onto a device from a package feed. +new version of a recipe to be installed onto a device from a package feed. These once had to be set manually but in most cases these can now be set and incremented automatically by a PR Server connected with a package feed.