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From: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com
To: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org,
	Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH RESEND] bitbake-user-manual: details about variable flags starting with underscore
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:08:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221027140808.46669-1-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 b533d9dc..b7c3d809 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
@@ -422,6 +422,12 @@ 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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