From: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com
To: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org,
Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH] bitbake-user-manual: details about variable flags starting with underscore
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:31:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220921133118.109417-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> (raw)
From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Fixes [YOCTO #14140]
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
---
doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
index 33782161..94e457f3 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
@@ -421,6 +421,12 @@ documentation to a BitBake variable as follows::
CACHE[doc] = "The directory holding the cache of the metadata."
+.. note::
+
+ Variable flag names starting with an underscore (``_``) character
+ are allowed but are ignored by ``d.getVarFlags("VAR")``
+ in Python code. Such flag names are used internally by BitBake.
+
Inline Python Variable Expansion
--------------------------------
--
2.34.1
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