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authorBill Traynor <wmat@alphatroop.com>2013-04-22 16:23:19 -0400
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-01-13 22:00:28 +0000
commit56573aab7b5b79f3653477db17625d03a29aca04 (patch)
treeeb6961243198e45592d32334fb4f424cc624a603
parent79d26d33ad3769478a8ff331da7fe83ce168ca13 (diff)
downloadbitbake-56573aab7b5b79f3653477db17625d03a29aca04.tar.gz
user-manual-metadata: Filling in variable info.
Began completing the variable descriptions in the Accessing Variables and the Data Store from Python section. Signed-off-by: Bill Traynor <wmat@alphatroop.com>
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@@ -1093,10 +1093,16 @@ There are also other events that occur based on specific requests to the server:
d.getVarFlag("X", flag, expand=False)
</screen>
+ gets given flag from variable X but does not expand it.
+
<screen>
d.setVarFlag("X", flag, value)
</screen>
+ sets given flag for variable X to value.
+ Note, setVarFlags will not clear previous flags.
+ Think of this method as addVarFlags.
+
<screen>
d.appendVarFlag("X", flag, value)
</screen>