[oe] A new bitbake extension: .bbappend files
Michael Smith
msmith at cbnco.com
Tue Jul 20 15:52:30 UTC 2010
Tom Rini wrote:
> It's also needed, in some cases, to lock down your changes via OVERRIDES
> that will only match what you want to work on. For example, we're using
> a snapshot with an older python, so amend.inc in our python directory
> looks like:
>
> SRC_URI_append_pn-python-native =
> "file://python-2.6-r73342.patch;patch=1;pnum=0"
> PARALLEL_MAKE_pn-python-native = ""
> PR_append_pn-python-native .= ".1"
>
> So that we only change python-native and not all of the other python
> recipes.
I think you could get the same effect by putting your amend.inc in a
python-native subdirectory under your overlay recipes/python directory.
Maybe there's some native magic going on that would break that. (I've
never amended a -native package but I use the same trick for other
recipes where there are multiple .bb files are in the same OE directory.)
Mike
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