[gnome-continuous-yocto/gnomeostree-3.28-rocko: 2972/8267] ref-manual: Updated the do_sysroot_populate task description.



commit d31a826120709ce7d320319e4905204dcea4ff6b
Author: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark gmail com>
Date:   Wed Oct 5 08:47:47 2016 -0700

    ref-manual: Updated the do_sysroot_populate task description.
    
    Fixes [YOCTO #10377]
    
    Added more detail and linked it to key variables.
    
    (From yocto-docs rev: d82c1d4e8cc95bee718388cfeced1566ce8569a0)
    
    Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark gmail com>
    Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard purdie linuxfoundation org>

 documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml |   29 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
index f05d0f8..66c2193 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
@@ -460,18 +460,25 @@
         <title><filename>do_populate_sysroot</filename></title>
 
         <para>
-            Copies a subset of the files installed by the
+            Stages (copies) a subset of the files installed by the
             <link linkend='ref-tasks-install'><filename>do_install</filename></link>
-            task into the sysroot directory
-            <filename>${</filename><link 
linkend='var-STAGING_DIR_HOST'><filename>STAGING_DIR_HOST</filename></link><filename>}</filename>
-            to make them available to other recipes.
-            Files that would typically not be needed by other recipes at build
-            time are skipped.
-            Skipped files include files installed into
-            <filename>/etc.</filename>
-            For information on what files are copied, see the
-            <link linkend='ref-classes-staging'><filename>staging</filename></link>
-            class.
+            task into the appropriate sysroot.
+            For information on how to make these files available to other
+            recipes, see the
+            <link linkend='var-STAGING_DIR_HOST'><filename>STAGING_DIR_HOST</filename></link>
+            variable.
+            Directories that would typically not be needed by other recipes at
+            build time (e.g. <filename>/etc</filename>) are not copied by
+            default.
+        </para>
+
+        <para>
+            For information on what directories are copied by default, see the
+            <link linkend='var-SYSROOT_DIRS'><filename>SYSROOT_DIRS*</filename></link>
+            variables.
+            You can change these variables inside your recipe if you need
+            to make additional (or fewer) directories available to other
+            recipes at build time.
         </para>
 
         <para>


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