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

Radzykewycz, T (Radzy) radzy at windriver.com
Wed Feb 24 22:59:13 UTC 2016


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On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 2:52 PM, Paul Eggleton said:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:33:04 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > Quoting Christopher Larson <clarson at kergoth.com>:
> > > All appends that apply to a given recipe will be applied to that recipe.
> > > Order is determined solely by layer priority.
> >
> >    wait ... so *all* bbappend files that match a recipe will be applied?
> > i'm embarrassed that i didn't know that, is that mentioned in the
> > documentation somewhere?
> 
> Surprisingly we don't currently state this explicitly, though it's implied. We
> should work this into the relevant part of the bitbake manual and the "Using
> .bbappend Files" section of the dev manual. Scott could you add that to your
> todo list?

If there is any way to determine the order that the bbappend files
are included, that would be helpful.  As well as determining what
order patches will be applied (which is, I suspect, determined
in part by what order the bbappend files are included)..

Enjoy!

				-- radzy



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