[OE-core] [yocto] 2.6 migration guide

[Bas Mevissen]

On 2018-10-31 16:50, Scott Rifenbark wrote:

> Can you tell me why "123456" is also not removed?  That string contains 
> instances of "123" and "456"


Because it removes all occurrences of the list value "123" and not of 
value "123456" or any part of it. Otherwise, it would be impossible to 
use this function to only remove, say, "1" from a long list of numbers. 
(here 'value' is not limited to a number).

-- Bas.

> 
> Thanks,
> Scott
> 
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:15 AM Robert Berger 
> <yocto.user.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Scott,
>> 
>> On 31.10.18 00:06, Scott Rifenbark wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have an initial section at
>>> https://yoctoproject.org/docs/2.6/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#moving-to-the-yocto-project-2.6-release,
>>> which is based on Richard's input.  I am sure there are more items.
>> 
>> You might want to add a link to the bitbake manual or some example 
>> from
>> there for the new functionality of _remove operator:
>> 
>> http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/tree/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml?id=c0a23dd9155c50a6b7df796980bc7b612cac7994#n334
>> 
>> FOO = "123 456 789 123456 123 456 123 456"
>> FOO_remove = "123"
>> FOO_remove = "456"
>> 
>> FOO is now: "  789 123456    " instead of "789 123456"
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Scott
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Robert