From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.pbcl.net ([88.198.119.4] helo=hetzner.pbcl.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUhTe-0007g0-C5 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 18:53:30 +0200 Received: from elite.brightsigndigital.co.uk ([81.142.160.137] helo=[172.30.1.145]) by hetzner.pbcl.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUhJz-0000UO-2t for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 18:43:31 +0200 From: Phil Blundell To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 17:43:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4FB3C2CC.7010204@windriver.com> References: <20120515140110.2ba5a1be@wrlaptop> <4FB32EA1.3060601@linux.intel.com> <4FB3C2CC.7010204@windriver.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2- Message-ID: <1337186611.1964.76.camel@phil-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: RFC: FOO_subtract, the logical antidote to FOO_append. X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 16:53:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.