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documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml: Updated term list. 

I added a reference to the Image appendix for the description of
images.  Also, added a new term "meta-toolchain."

(From yocto-docs rev: a9c1110ec7499afa669416c00bc81573fcbf920d)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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with BitBake (baked) and made part of a root filesystem.
Images are both the binary output that runs on specific hardware and for specific
use cases as well as a metadata recipe that BitBake processes to generate the
binary output.</para></listitem>
binary output.
For a list of the supported image types that the Yocto Project provides, see the
<ulink url='http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.1/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#ref-images'>
Reference: Images</ulink> appendix in
<ulink url='http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.1/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html'>
The Yocto Project Reference Manual</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Recipe</emphasis> - A set of instructions for building packages.
A recipe describes where you get source code and which patches to apply.
Recipes describe dependencies for libraries or for other recipes and they
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<listitem><para><emphasis>Metadata</emphasis> - A term used throughout the Yocto Project
documentation that refers to the files that BitBake parses when building an image.
Metadata includes recipes, classes, and configuration files.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Meta-Toolchain</emphasis> - A collection of software development
tools and utilities that allow you to develop software for targeted architectures.
These toolchains contain cross-compilers, linkers, and debuggers that are specific to
an architecure.
You can use the Yocto Project to build meta-toolchains in tarball form that when
unpacked contain the development tools you need to cross-compile and test your software.
The Yocto Project ships with images that contain toolchains for supported architectures
as well.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Configuration File</emphasis>: Configuration information in the
<filename>.conf</filename> files provides global definitions of variables.
The <filename>build/conf/local.conf</filename> configuration file defines user-defined variables