INHERIT += "debian" Placing the above line into your ${DISTRO}.conf or local.conf will trigger renaming of packages if they only ship one library. Imagine a package where the package name (PN) is foo and this packages ships a file named libfoo.so.1.2.3. Now this package will be renamed to libfoo1 to follow the Debian package naming policy.

Run-time Dependencies (RDEPENDS) will be added when packaging the software. They should only contain the minimal dependencies to run the program. OpenEmbedded will analyze each packaged binary and search for SO_NEEDED libraries. The libraries are absolutely required by the program then OpenEmbedded is searching for packages that installs these libraries. these packages are automatically added to the RDEPENDS. As a packager you don't need to worry about shared libraries anymore they will be added automatically. NOTE: This does not apply to plug-ins used by the program.

This section is a stub, help us by expanding it BBFILES := "${OEDIR}/openembedded/packages/*/*.bb ${LOCALDIR}/packages/*/*.bb" BBFILE_COLLECTIONS = "upstream local" BBFILE_PATTERN_upstream = "^${OEDIR}/openembedded/packages/" BBFILE_PATTERN_local = "^${LOCALDIR}/packages/" BBFILE_PRIORITY_upstream = "5" BBFILE_PRIORITY_local = "10"

Task-base is new way of creating basic root filesystems. Instead of having each machine setting a ton of duplicate variables, this allow a machine to specify its features and task-base builds it a customised package based on what the machine needs along with what the distro supports. To illustrate, the distro config file can say: DISTRO_FEATURES = "nfs smbfs ipsec wifi ppp alsa bluetooth ext2 irda pcmcia usbgadget usbhost" and the machine config: MACHINE_FEATURES = "kernel26 apm alsa pcmcia bluetooth irda usbgadget" and the resulting task-base would support pcmcia but not usbhost. Task-base details exactly which options are either machine or distro settings (or need to be in both). Machine options are meant to reflect capabilities of the machine, distro options list things distribution maintainers might want to add or remove from their distros images.

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