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ref-manual: document UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS and UPSTREAM_VERSION_UNKNOWN

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install initscripts package them in the main package for the recipe,
you rarely need to set this variable in individual recipes.
:term:`UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS`
You can perform a per-recipe check for what the latest upstream
source code version is by calling ``devtool latest-version recipe``. If
the recipe source code is provided from Git repositories, but
releases are not identified by Git tags, set :term:`UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS`
to ``1`` in the recipe, and the OpenEmbedded build system
will compare the latest commit with the one currently specified
by the recipe (:term:`SRCREV`).
::
UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS = "1"
:term:`UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX`
You can perform a per-recipe check for what the latest upstream
source code version is by calling ``bitbake -c checkpkg`` recipe. If
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UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "recipe_url"
:term:`UPSTREAM_VERSION_UNKNOWN`
You can perform a per-recipe check for what the latest upstream
source code version is by calling ``devtool latest-version recipe``.
If no combination of the :term:`UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI`, :term:`UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX`,
:term:`UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX` and :term:`UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS` variables in
the recipe allows to determine what the latest upstream version is,
you can set :term:`UPSTREAM_VERSION_UNKNOWN` to ``1`` in the recipe
to acknowledge that the check cannot be performed.
::
UPSTREAM_VERSION_UNKNOWN = "1"
:term:`USE_DEVFS`
Determines if ``devtmpfs`` is used for ``/dev`` population. The
default value used for :term:`USE_DEVFS` is "1" when no value is