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diff --git a/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml b/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml
index 6424a7ebd..7b87ad837 100644
--- a/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml
+++ b/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml
@@ -215,13 +215,11 @@ addtask printdate before do_build</screen></para>
<para>BitBake allows to install event handlers. Events are triggered at certain points during operation, such as, the beginning of operation against a given .bb, the start of a given task, task failure, task success, et cetera. The intent was to make it easy to do things like email notifications on build failure.</para>
<para><screen>addhandler myclass_eventhandler
python myclass_eventhandler() {
- from bb.event import NotHandled, getName
+ from bb.event import getName
from bb import data
print "The name of the Event is %s" % getName(e)
print "The file we run for is %s" % data.getVar('FILE', e.data, True)
-
- return NotHandled
}
</screen></para><para>
This event handler gets called every time an event is triggered. A global variable <varname>e</varname> is defined. <varname>e</varname>.data contains an instance of bb.data. With the getName(<varname>e</varname>)
@@ -318,9 +316,9 @@ a per URI parameters separated by a <quote>;</quote> consisting of a key and a v
<section>
<title>CVS File Fetcher</title>
- <para>The URN for the CVS Fetcher is <emphasis>cvs</emphasis>. This Fetcher honors the variables <varname>DL_DIR</varname>, <varname>SRCDATE</varname>, <varname>FETCHCOMMAND_cvs</varname>, <varname>UPDATECOMMAND_cvs</varname>. <varname>DL_DIRS</varname> specifies where a temporary checkout is saved, <varname>SRCDATE</varname> specifies which date to use when doing the fetching (the special value of "now" will cause the checkout to be updated on every build), <varname>FETCHCOMMAND</varname> and <varname>UPDATECOMMAND</varname> specify which executables should be used when doing the CVS checkout or update.
+ <para>The URN for the CVS Fetcher is <emphasis>cvs</emphasis>. This Fetcher honors the variables <varname>DL_DIR</varname>, <varname>SRCDATE</varname>, <varname>FETCHCOMMAND_cvs</varname>, <varname>UPDATECOMMAND_cvs</varname>. <varname>DL_DIR</varname> specifies where a temporary checkout is saved, <varname>SRCDATE</varname> specifies which date to use when doing the fetching (the special value of "now" will cause the checkout to be updated on every build), <varname>FETCHCOMMAND</varname> and <varname>UPDATECOMMAND</varname> specify which executables should be used when doing the CVS checkout or update.
</para>
- <para>The supported Parameters are <varname>module</varname>, <varname>tag</varname>, <varname>date</varname>, <varname>method</varname>, <varname>localdir</varname>, <varname>rsh</varname>. The <varname>module</varname> specifies which module to check out, the <varname>tag</varname> describes which CVS TAG should be used for the checkout by default the TAG is empty. A <varname>date</varname> can be specified to override the SRCDATE of the configuration to checkout a specific date. The special value of "now" will cause the checkout to be updated on every build.<varname>method</varname> is by default <emphasis>pserver</emphasis>, if <emphasis>ext</emphasis> is used the <varname>rsh</varname> parameter will be evaluated and <varname>CVS_RSH</varname> will be set. Finally <varname>localdir</varname> is used to checkout into a special directory relative to <varname>CVSDIR></varname>.
+ <para>The supported Parameters are <varname>module</varname>, <varname>tag</varname>, <varname>date</varname>, <varname>method</varname>, <varname>localdir</varname>, <varname>rsh</varname>. The <varname>module</varname> specifies which module to check out, the <varname>tag</varname> describes which CVS TAG should be used for the checkout by default the TAG is empty. A <varname>date</varname> can be specified to override the SRCDATE of the configuration to checkout a specific date. The special value of "now" will cause the checkout to be updated on every build.<varname>method</varname> is by default <emphasis>pserver</emphasis>, if <emphasis>ext</emphasis> is used the <varname>rsh</varname> parameter will be evaluated and <varname>CVS_RSH</varname> will be set. Finally <varname>localdir</varname> is used to checkout into a special directory relative to <varname>CVSDIR</varname>.
<screen><varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "cvs://CVSROOT;module=mymodule;tag=some-version;method=ext"
<varname>SRC_URI</varname> = "cvs://CVSROOT;module=mymodule;date=20060126;localdir=usethat"
</screen>