Re: [docs] [PATCH] ref-manual: add missing section on build/tmp/deploy/spdx

Quentin Schulz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.yoctoproject.lists.docs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/24/26 1:00 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2026, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> 
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> On 6/22/26 7:44 PM, Robert P. J. Day via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
>>>
>>> There is no subsection on build/tmp/deploy/spdx; add it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/structure.rst
>>> b/documentation/ref-manual/structure.rst
>>> index ff84b250b..e22de6047 100644
>>> --- a/documentation/ref-manual/structure.rst
>>> +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/structure.rst
>>> @@ -539,6 +539,15 @@ licensing, see the
>>>    ":ref:`dev-manual/licenses:maintaining open source license compliance
>>> during your product's lifecycle`"
>>>    section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
>>>
>>> +.. _structure-build-tmp-deploy-spdx:
>>> +
>>> +``build/tmp/deploy/spdx/``
>>> +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> +
>>> +This directory contains a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) in SPDX format,
>>
>> "a"? I have tens of thousands of them, in various subdirectories,
>> though I possibly reused the same build directory for multiple
>> builds at different commit hashes for OE-Core and I built that 2
>> months ago so maybe things changed since?
> 
>    is the question whether the term "SBOM" is singular or plural? here:
> 
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev-manual/sbom.html
> 
> it's clearly singular. is there a better wording? in that same
> section, one reads about generating "SBOM metadata" or generating "an
> SBOM document". we should be consistent.
> 

/me shrugs

Adding Joshua in Cc.
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