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From: "Simon A. Eugster" <simon.eu@gmail.com>
To: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org, "Simon A. Eugster" <simon.eu@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] bitbake: doc: suffix for BBFILE_PRIORITY
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:40:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240920124020.2894006-2-simon.eu@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240920124020.2894006-1-simon.eu@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Simon A. Eugster <simon.eu@gmail.com>
---
 .../bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst                   | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
index 899e584f91..c203531f51 100644
--- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
+++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
@@ -766,6 +766,10 @@ overview of their function and contents.
    :term:`BBFILE_PRIORITY`
       Assigns the priority for recipe files in each layer.
 
+      This variable is used in the ``conf/layer.conf`` file and must be
+      suffixed with a `_` followed by the name of the specific layer (e.g.
+      ``BBFILE_PRIORITY_emenlow``). Colon as separator is not supported.
+
       This variable is useful in situations where the same recipe appears
       in more than one layer. Setting this variable allows you to
       prioritize a layer against other layers that contain the same recipe
@@ -780,7 +784,7 @@ overview of their function and contents.
       higher precedence. For example, the value 6 has a higher precedence
       than the value 5. If not specified, the :term:`BBFILE_PRIORITY` variable
       is set based on layer dependencies (see the :term:`LAYERDEPENDS` variable
-      for more information. The default priority, if unspecified for a
+      for more information). The default priority, if unspecified for a
       layer with no dependencies, is the lowest defined priority + 1 (or 1
       if no priorities are defined).
 
-- 
2.43.0



  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-20 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-20 12:40 [PATCH 0/1] Clarify that _ and not : is used for suffixing the variable name Simon A. Eugster
2024-09-20 12:40 ` Simon A. Eugster [this message]
2024-09-23  9:31   ` [docs] [PATCH 1/1] bitbake: doc: suffix for BBFILE_PRIORITY Quentin Schulz
2024-09-24  9:05     ` Simon Eugster
     [not found]     ` <10227.1733234974032646746@lists.openembedded.org>
2024-12-04  9:42       ` [bitbake-devel] " Quentin Schulz
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2024-09-20 11:38 [PATCH 0/1] Clarify that _ and not : is used for suffixing the variable name Simon A. Eugster
2024-09-20 11:38 ` [PATCH 1/1] bitbake: doc: suffix for BBFILE_PRIORITY Simon A. Eugster

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