Commit 677c4b5f authored by Yann E. MORIN's avatar Yann E. MORIN Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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docs/manual: add _PATCH_DEPENDENCIES 



Signed-off-by: default avatar"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRomain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt

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@@ -308,6 +308,15 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : 
  a similar way, +HOST_LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies for

  the current host package.



* +LIBFOO_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies (in terms of

  package name) that are required for the current package to be

  patched. These dependencies are guaranteed to be extracted and

  patched before the current package is patched. In a similar way,

  +HOST_LIBFOO_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies for the

  current host package.

  This is seldom used; usually, +LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES+ is what you

  really want to use.



* +LIBFOO_PROVIDES+ lists all the virtual packages +libfoo+ is an

  implementation of. See xref:virtual-package-tutorial[].