[OE-core] Directory permissions and ownership -- RFC

[Phil Blundell]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 16:27 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> I don't know how to do this within bitbake (easily).  The table is currently a
> static set of paths that exist within the distribution as a whole.  They are not
> recipe specific, but you can have more then one file... the assumption is
> different layers may bring in additional files, only if necessary.
> 
> If there is existing code I can use to identify and resolve in-line variables,
> I'll be happy to add that into the code.  I'd certainly like to add that
> capability, but so far we don't have it.  (Would be nice in the device_table
> file.. but I doubt that's practical as the code is not run within python.)

I think bb.data.expand() should do what you need there.

p.