diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
index 0a0a2e2fba..0bc917c09c 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
@@ -1345,7 +1345,8 @@
dependency.
This determination is particularly useful to discover where
runtime dependencies are detected and added during packaging.
- At this point in the build it is too late to ensure that
+ If no explicit dependency has been specified within the
+ metadata, at the packaging stage it is too late to ensure that
the dependency is built, and thus you can end up with an
error when the package is installed into the image during the
do_rootfs
@@ -1354,7 +1355,7 @@
update-rc.d
class automatically adds a dependency on the
initscripts-functions package to packages
- that install an initscript that refers to
+ that install an initscript that refers to
/etc/init.d/functions.
The recipe should really have an explicit
RDEPENDS for the package in question on
@@ -1415,9 +1416,9 @@
Some very rare cases do exist for dynamically loaded modules where
these symlinks are needed instead in the main package.
- file-redeps:
+ file-rdeps:
Checks that file-level dependencies identified by the
- OpenEmbedded build system are satisfied.
+ OpenEmbedded build system at packaging time are satisfied.
For example, a shell script might start with the line
#!/bin/bash.
This line would translate to a file dependency on
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml
index 0b364be59c..969074bf60 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml
@@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ can be found then it should be implemented. I can't find one at the moment.
-
+
- <packagename> requires <files>, but no providers in its RDEPENDS [file->rdeps]
+ <packagename> requires <files>, but no providers in its RDEPENDS [file-rdeps]
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ can be found then it should be implemented. I can't find one at the moment.
RDEPENDS.
If particular files are required at runtime then
RDEPENDS should be declared in the
- recipe to ensure they are present.
+ recipe to ensure the packages providing them are built.
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ can be found then it should be implemented. I can't find one at the moment.
- <packagename1> rdepends on <packagename2>, but it isn't a builddependency? [build-deps]
+ <packagename1> rdepends on <packagename2>, but it isn't a build dependency? [build-deps]