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Subject: Re: [Bitbake-dev] A new bitbake extension: .bbappend files
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Hi Richard,

Does this do anything different than amendrecipes.bbclass?

Mike

Richard Purdie wrote:
> The idea is that if bitbake finds any X.bbappend files, when it loads
> X.bb, it will also include these files after it parses the base .bb file
> (but before finalise and the anonymous methods run). This means that
> the .bbappend file can poke around and do whatever it might want to the
> recipe to customise it.