From patchwork Mon Mar 7 18:38:03 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Michael Opdenacker X-Patchwork-Id: 4853 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F68EC433F5 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2022 18:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (relay4-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.196]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.1736.1646678310428474717 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:38:30 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@bootlin.com header.s=gm1 header.b=UijyZIhr; spf=pass (domain: bootlin.com, ip: 217.70.183.196, mailfrom: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) Received: (Authenticated sender: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 05C2DE0003; Mon, 7 Mar 2022 18:38:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=gm1; t=1646678308; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=d0pyhnCSh+Ky1TlplVFsBj1/aB+Cl9i+JsJ20J3Ye+Y=; b=UijyZIhrGt3ZAHdpiGYvx60vU8B8vPaXPjzhclaqzTR/KucSwi5mpeTRn0epp35VysD+E7 DPEfi+J8Gs+nfoahHBiUqIh3DCujOPYH4qL7QxbCNX2XRUk+3L2QlhCDynqX68AN+ImsIr wlcLQI2AVJdLQbJJZE78m9w42Rmgmb2LDebWvCVjIc9X9vaxvJ2VqD9+62BLFrBCyEB478 k1pz/UTsWp3DOUl/RlXxh9o93sGHrAaXA2u8PtIA9W1lBuzreGpW6XgXbq+mLRhlVdURJO Dpgj5RQpt3vo+tiJG6qvcmgV0C21trORiZexmP6Zi5IsUvfge7Jld/fW05jFPA== From: Michael Opdenacker To: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org Cc: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org, Michael Opdenacker , Peter Kjellerstedt , Richard Purdie Subject: [PATCH] bitbake-user-manual: add note about the old syntax for OVERRIDES Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 19:38:03 +0100 Message-Id: <20220307183803.534661-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <6035008ce96fb9055547cf0cc2ffa51d2262c9ea.camel@linuxfoundation.org> References: <6035008ce96fb9055547cf0cc2ffa51d2262c9ea.camel@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from li982-79.members.linode.com [45.33.32.79] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:38:31 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/2540 Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker Reported-by: Peter Kjellerstedt Reported-by: Richard Purdie --- .../bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst index b90e5cf0..97114ed6 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst @@ -585,6 +585,16 @@ variable. EXTRA_OEMAKE:prepend:task-compile = "${PARALLEL_MAKE} " +.. note:: + + Before BitBake 1.52 (Honister 3.4), the syntax for :term:`OVERRIDES` + used ``_`` instead of ``:``, so you will still find a lot of documentation + using ``_append``, ``_prepend``, and ``_remove``, for example. + + For details, see the + :yocto_docs:`Overrides Syntax Changes ` + section in the Yocto Project manual migration notes. + Key Expansion -------------