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From: Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org,
	Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ref-manual: Update SIGGEN_EXCLUDE_SAFE_RECIPE_DEPS
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:33:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180321203301.18296-1-JPEWhacker@gmail.com> (raw)

Describes the new wildcard syntax

Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
---
 documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 09eb9b9dfc7..58a58b0605e 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -12648,6 +12648,23 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
                     <filename>mplayer2</filename>.
                 </para>
 
+                <para>
+                    The special token <filename>"*"</filename> may be used on
+                    the left hand side of the dependency, which will match all
+                    recipes except the one on the right hand side.
+                    For example:
+                    <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+    SIGGEN_EXCLUDE_SAFE_RECIPE_DEPS += "*->quilt-native"
+                    </literallayout>
+                </para>
+
+                <para>
+                    In this example, all recipes except
+                    <filename>quilt-native</filename> will ignore task
+                    signatures from the <filename>quilt-native</filename> recipe
+                    when determining their task signatures.
+                </para>
+
                 <para>
                     Use of this variable is one mechanism to remove dependencies
                     that affect task signatures and thus force rebuilds when a
-- 
2.14.3



             reply	other threads:[~2018-03-21 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-21 20:33 Joshua Watt [this message]
2018-03-21 21:02 ` ✗ patchtest: failure for ref-manual: Update SIGGEN_EXCLUDE_SAFE_RECIPE_DEPS Patchwork
2018-03-28 17:53 ` [PATCH] " Scott Rifenbark
2018-03-28 18:57   ` Joshua Watt
2018-03-28 18:59     ` Scott Rifenbark
2018-03-28 20:15       ` Joshua Watt
2018-03-28 20:23         ` Scott Rifenbark

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