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From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: FOO_subtract, the logical antidote to FOO_append.
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 17:43:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337186611.1964.76.camel@phil-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB3C2CC.7010204@windriver.com>

On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 10:07 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> But the real problem we keep struggling with is .conf load order.. you try to 
> set some nice value in local.conf, and some later configuration file adds to it, 
> or simply overwrites it.  He'd like a way to strip out things like that.

OVERRIDES .= ":local"
VAR_local = "I rule"

Or you could use the existing "_forcevariable" override although I have
a feeling that was intended for something else.

p.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-16 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-15 19:01 RFC: FOO_subtract, the logical antidote to FOO_append Peter Seebach
2012-05-15 20:46 ` Manuel Bessler
2012-05-16  4:35   ` Saul Wold
2012-05-16 15:07     ` Mark Hatle
2012-05-16 16:23       ` Chris Larson
2012-05-16 16:43       ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2012-05-16 16:58     ` Peter Seebach
2012-05-18  4:18       ` Chris Larson
2012-05-18  6:25         ` Richard Purdie

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