[gnome-continuous-yocto/gnomeostree-3.28-rocko: 1847/8267] bitbake: bitbake-user-manual: Added detail to [dirs] and [cleardirs] flags



commit 50d78130fd13bcf09288f37e07c4baf6490587eb
Author: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark gmail com>
Date:   Wed Aug 3 17:22:58 2016 -0700

    bitbake: bitbake-user-manual: Added detail to [dirs] and [cleardirs] flags
    
    Fixes [YOCTO #10071]
    
    Provided more clear descriptions for these two flags.
    
    (Bitbake rev: c85c9a468dc3ce606a5f8797e6be8b411a9f3bdb)
    
    Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark gmail com>
    Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard purdie linuxfoundation org>

 .../bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml               |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml 
b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
index 7ef848f..6fa8148 100644
--- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
+++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
@@ -1394,7 +1394,10 @@
             functionality of the task:
             <itemizedlist>
                 <listitem><para><emphasis>cleandirs:</emphasis>
-                    Empty directories that should created before the task runs.
+                    Empty directories that should be created before the
+                    task runs.
+                    Directories that already exist are removed and recreated
+                    to empty them.
                     </para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para><emphasis>depends:</emphasis>
                     Controls inter-task dependencies.
@@ -1414,8 +1417,9 @@
                     </para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para><emphasis>dirs:</emphasis>
                     Directories that should be created before the task runs.
-                    The last directory listed will be used as the work directory
-                    for the task.
+                    Directories that already exist are left as is.
+                    The last directory listed is used as the
+                    current working directory for the task.
                     </para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para><emphasis>lockfiles:</emphasis>
                      Specifies one or more lockfiles to lock while the task


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