| Message ID | 20220623173710.12957-1-aatrapps@gmail.com |
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| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | docs: make DISTRO_FEATURES description more explicit | expand |
Hi Aatir, Thanks for the update! On 6/23/22 19:37, aatir wrote: > + enabled. Note: just enabling :term: `DISTRO_FEATURES` alone doesn't Oops, you forgot to remove the space here. I fixed that by myself. > + enable feature support for packages, mechanisms such as making > + :term:`PACKAGECONFIG` track :term:`DISTRO_FEATURES` are used > + to enable/disbale package features. s/disbale/disable/ I fixed that by myself Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> I leave a little of time for further reviews, but it looks good to me. Thanks again, and don't hesitate to send us more improvements! Cheers Michael.
Great, thanks! On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 2:08 PM Michael Opdenacker < michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> wrote: > Hi Aatir, > > Thanks for the update! > > On 6/23/22 19:37, aatir wrote: > > + enabled. Note: just enabling :term: `DISTRO_FEATURES` alone > doesn't > > Oops, you forgot to remove the space here. I fixed that by myself. > > > + enable feature support for packages, mechanisms such as making > > + :term:`PACKAGECONFIG` track :term:`DISTRO_FEATURES` are used > > + to enable/disbale package features. > > > s/disbale/disable/ > I fixed that by myself > > Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> > > I leave a little of time for further reviews, but it looks good to me. > Thanks again, and don't hesitate to send us more improvements! > > Cheers > Michael. > > -- > Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin > Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering > https://bootlin.com > >
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/features.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/features.rst index a8d0dac99..17521ac2a 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/features.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/features.rst @@ -100,7 +100,9 @@ packages, and they can go beyond simply controlling the installation of a package or packages. In most cases, the presence or absence of a feature translates to the appropriate option supplied to the configure script during the :ref:`ref-tasks-configure` task for -the recipes that optionally support the feature. +the recipes that optionally support the feature. Appropriate options +must be supplied, and enabling/disabling :term:`PACKAGECONFIG` for the +concerned packages is one way of supplying such options. Some distro features are also machine features. These select features make sense to be controlled both at the machine and distribution diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst index 28267101d..8f7b01c12 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst @@ -1873,7 +1873,10 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents. optionally support the feature. For example, specifying "x11" in :term:`DISTRO_FEATURES`, causes every piece of software built for the target that can optionally support X11 to have its X11 support - enabled. + enabled. Note: just enabling :term: `DISTRO_FEATURES` alone doesn't + enable feature support for packages, mechanisms such as making + :term:`PACKAGECONFIG` track :term:`DISTRO_FEATURES` are used + to enable/disbale package features. Two more examples are Bluetooth and NFS support. For a more complete list of features that ships with the Yocto Project and that you can