[OE-core] what is the priority of wildcarded .bbappend files?

Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Wed Feb 24 20:46:16 UTC 2016


All appends that apply to a given recipe will be applied to that recipe.
Order is determined solely by layer priority.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:38 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>    didn't immediately see this in the documentation anywhere, so what would
> happen in the following situation? say i have a layer that has three
> different versions of a recipe:
>
> * recipe-1.0.bb
> * recipe-1.1.bb
> * recipe-1.2.bb
>
>    if i want, i can extend each one with a .bbappend file:
>
> * recipe-1.0.bbappend
> * recipe-1.1.bbappend
> * recipe-1.2.bbappend
>
>    or if the same .bbappend file applies to all of them, i can just create
> the wildcard file "recipe-1.%.bbappend". but can i do this?
>
> * recipe-1.1.bbappend
> * recipe-1.%.bbappend
>
> such that the more specific match takes precedence, so that the 1.1
> bbappend
> file is used for that version, and the wildcard version is used for
> all others?
> is this written down somewhere that i just missed it?
>
> rday
>
>
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