ref-manual: Added more info to distrodata class.

Saul Wold provided me with more detail on this class, which
I added.

(From yocto-docs rev: 73c79f0460511039d5497bfd303cdc88f96e2fcc)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark 2013-12-10 16:30:10 -06:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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<para>
The <filename>distrodata</filename> class
provides for automatic checking for upstream recipe updates.
The class creates a comma-separated value (CSV) spreadsheet that
contains information about the recipes.
The information provides the <filename>distrodata</filename> and
<filename>distro_check</filename> tasks, which do upstream checking
and also verify if a package is used in multiple major distributions.
</para>
<para>
The class is not included by default.
To use it, you must include the following files and set the
<link linkend='var-INHERIT'><filename>INHERIT</filename></link>
variable:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
include conf/distro/include/distro_alias.inc
include conf/distro/include/recipe_color.inc
include conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
include conf/distro/include/upstream_tracking.inc
include conf/distro/include/package_regex.inc
INHERIT+= "distrodata"
</literallayout>
</para>
</section>