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ref-manual, dev-manual: Removed information about package name alias. 

The section on "Handling a Package Name Alias" was confusing and
wrong.  We decided to eliminate it.  The section was removed from
the dev-manual.  The corresponding variable DISTRO_PN_ALIAS
remains for now but without the cross-reference link to the
now missing section.

Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
(From yocto-docs rev: 9938cdcc8488baffa4252288bf45243055e76fed)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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<listitem><para>
<link linkend='incrementing-a-package-revision-number'>Incrementing a package revision number</link>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<link linkend='usingpoky-configuring-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS'>Handling a package name alias</link>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<link linkend='handling-optional-module-packaging'>Handling optional module packaging</link>
</para></listitem>
@ -6492,53 +6489,6 @@
</section>
</section>
<section id="usingpoky-configuring-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS">
<title>Handling a Package Name Alias</title>
<para>
Sometimes a package name you are using might exist under
an alias or as a similarly named package in a different
distribution.
The OpenEmbedded build system implements a
<filename>do_distro_check</filename>
task that automatically connects to major distributions
and checks for these situations.
If the package exists under a different name in a different
distribution, you get a <filename>distro_check</filename>
mismatch.
You can resolve this problem by defining a per-distro recipe
name alias using the
<filename><ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS'>DISTRO_PN_ALIAS</ulink></filename>
variable.
</para>
<para>
Following is an example that shows how you specify the <filename>DISTRO_PN_ALIAS</filename>
variable:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
DISTRO_PN_ALIAS_pn-PACKAGENAME = "distro1=package_name_alias1 \
distro2=package_name_alias2 \
distro3=package_name_alias3 \
..."
</literallayout>
</para>
<para>
If you have more than one distribution alias, separate them with a space.
Note that the build system currently automatically checks the
Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu,
and Mandriva distributions for source package recipes without having to specify them
using the <filename>DISTRO_PN_ALIAS</filename> variable.
For example, the following command generates a report that lists the Linux distributions
that include the sources for each of the recipes.
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
$ bitbake world -f -c distro_check
</literallayout>
The results are stored in the <filename>build/tmp/log/distro_check-${DATETIME}.results</filename>
file found in the
<link linkend='source-directory'>Source Directory</link>.
</para>
</section>
<section id='handling-optional-module-packaging'>
<title>Handling Optional Module Packaging</title>

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</info>
<glossdef>
<para>Alias names used for the recipe in various Linux distributions.</para>
<para>See the
"<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#usingpoky-configuring-DISTRO_PN_ALIAS'>Handling
a Package Name Alias</ulink>" section in the Yocto Project Development
Manual for more information.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>