From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id A3181E00B5E; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 07:18:21 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A749AE00B30 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 07:18:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id D3911F811E7; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:18:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08D1F811E5; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:18:15 -0700 (MST) To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <564F3276.10602@mlbassoc.com> <564F34B8.9020801@balister.org> From: Gary Thomas Message-ID: <564F39C9.9070201@mlbassoc.com> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:18:33 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <564F34B8.9020801@balister.org> Subject: Re: Change in behaviour X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:18:21 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2015-11-20 07:56, Philip Balister wrote: > On 11/20/2015 09:47 AM, Gary Thomas wrote: >> This commit: >> commit 536b73f55f51fcea555338f9a557fe86c09d00cb >> Author: Richard Purdie >> Date: Sun Oct 11 10:21:20 2015 +0100 >> bitbake: data_smart: Only support lowercase OVERRIDES >> breaks the use of capital letters, specifically in MACHINE names. >> I use this a lot, along with COMPATIBLE_MACHINE, to share recipes >> amongst similar machines. >> >> The commit says it could be conditional. How hard (and how) >> would it be to do that? >> > > A little background: > > http://openembedded.org/wiki/OEDEM_2015#Metadata Fair enough + I missed the RFC for the patch that eventually went in. That said, maybe a warning could be issued if overrides (at least MACHINEOVERRIDES) are being defined with any upper-case letters rather than the [very silent and hard to find] new behaviour causing issues? I'll set off to rework all of my recipes that use upper case letters in any way - a lot of work I'm sad to say... -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------