Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] data_smart: restore the ability to use capital letters

Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] data_smart: restore the ability to use capital letters

[Mathieu Dubois-Briand]

On Mon Oct 12, 2026 at 10:39 AM CEST, Yann Dirson via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> This reverts commit 6eb56624e6d8dc1944e559b4f6584bfe66f566ba.
>
> That commit was meant as an ad-hoc band-aid when "_" was used as
> override prefix, and it explicitly blocked capital letters from being
> usable in the overrides.  There is no reason to keep it now we use ":"
> as prefix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <yann.dirson@vates.tech>
> ---

Hi Yann,

Thanks for the new version, but we are still seeing the same failure:

FAIL: test_append_in_expanded_override (bb.tests.data.TestOverrides.test_append_in_expanded_override)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-armhost/build/layers/bitbake/lib/bb/tests/data.py", line 417, in test_append_in_expanded_override
    self.assertEqual(self.d.getVar("TEST"), "base appended")
AssertionError: 'base' != 'base appended'
- base
+ base appended

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/23/builds/5075
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/5043
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/4856

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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