From c81390249bc72e589458679eca427cb78b7ec09e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Blank Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:17:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ref-manual/variables.rst: update PKGDATA_DIR's description Don't refer to it as temporary. Update the default value. (From yocto-docs rev: 3786a02e4478c4e73531479d50d1be6e8dd8b4c7) Signed-off-by: Adam Blank Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit a1432f24c94a26b372164704cf18b3c6a73b34f5) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Paul Barker --- documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst index 6b040a6d49..94052a66d3 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst @@ -6841,19 +6841,17 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents. Points to a shared, global-state directory that holds data generated during the packaging process. During the packaging process, the :ref:`ref-tasks-packagedata` task packages data - for each recipe and installs it into this temporary, shared area. + for each recipe and installs it into this shared area. This directory defaults to the following, which you should not change:: - ${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/pkgdata + ${TMPDIR}/pkgdata/${MACHINE} For examples of how this data is used, see the ":ref:`overview-manual/concepts:automatically added runtime dependencies`" section in the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual and the ":ref:`dev-manual/debugging:viewing package information with ``oe-pkgdata-util```" - section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual. For more - information on the shared, global-state directory, see - :term:`STAGING_DIR_HOST`. + section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual. :term:`PKGDEST` Points to the parent directory for files to be packaged after they