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| author | Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> | 2015-02-05 14:04:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-02-07 18:52:45 +0000 |
| commit | 2c59b2b20c32577085645056e4cbf4f9c259e4d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 34ed9909bcace2319c9f23f53bb5f8592d0efb6b /scripts | |
| parent | ec3378f3a7013e289daa0f5c52329488b861f99c (diff) | |
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recipetool: improve command-line help
Based on feedback from Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py | 8 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/recipetool | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py index 38f5eadaf5..290fc1386b 100644 --- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py +++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py @@ -406,10 +406,12 @@ def convert_debian(debpath): def register_command(subparsers): - parser_create = subparsers.add_parser('create', help='Create a new recipe') + parser_create = subparsers.add_parser('create', + help='Create a new recipe', + description='Creates a new recipe from a source tree') parser_create.add_argument('source', help='Path or URL to source') - parser_create.add_argument('-o', '--outfile', help='Full path and filename to recipe to add', required=True) + parser_create.add_argument('-o', '--outfile', help='Specify filename for recipe to create', required=True) parser_create.add_argument('-m', '--machine', help='Make recipe machine-specific as opposed to architecture-specific', action='store_true') - parser_create.add_argument('-x', '--externalsrc', help='Assuming source is a URL, fetch it and extract it to the specified directory') + parser_create.add_argument('-x', '--extract-to', metavar='EXTRACTPATH', help='Assuming source is a URL, fetch it and extract it to the directory specified as %(metavar)s') parser_create.set_defaults(func=create_recipe) diff --git a/scripts/recipetool b/scripts/recipetool index 70e6b6c877..2cfa763201 100755 --- a/scripts/recipetool +++ b/scripts/recipetool @@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ def main(): sys.exit(1) parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="OpenEmbedded recipe tool", - epilog="Use %(prog)s <command> --help to get help on a specific command") + epilog="Use %(prog)s <subcommand> --help to get help on a specific command") parser.add_argument('-d', '--debug', help='Enable debug output', action='store_true') parser.add_argument('-q', '--quiet', help='Print only errors', action='store_true') - parser.add_argument('--color', help='Colorize output', choices=['auto', 'always', 'never'], default='auto') - subparsers = parser.add_subparsers() + parser.add_argument('--color', choices=['auto', 'always', 'never'], default='auto', help='Colorize output (where %(metavar)s is %(choices)s)', metavar='COLOR') + subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(title='subcommands', metavar='<subcommand>') scriptutils.load_plugins(logger, plugins, os.path.join(scripts_path, 'lib', 'recipetool')) registered = False |