[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] cooker.py: allow dangling bbappends if explicitly whitelisted

[Patrick Ohly]

On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 13:58 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is a hybrid solution if we extend this syntax a
> little, e.g.:
> 
> BBFILES_DYNAMIC += "\
>     XXXX:${LAYERDIR}/optional-bbappends-XXX/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend
>     YYYY:${LAYERDIR}/optional-bbappends-YYY/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend
> "
> 
> so that the code only applies these BBFILES entries if the layer named
> in the first parameter is present?
> 
> This would happen at the end of parsing so ordering becomes a moot
> point. The direction you stack BBFILES_DYANMIC in would determin
> bbappend application order.
> 
> How does that sound to people?

Sounds good to me.

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