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| author |   Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> | 2022-10-27 16:08:07 +0200 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-10-27 17:38:25 +0100 |
| commit | 0f3e9d87168813ce49995ff04bccdce11c5f7b47 (patch) | |
| tree | b23865bafe448ae124bee4e414683d60ed44f288 /doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst | |
| parent | 209f7ba352b60722830157054e3fc56cb9c693eb (diff) | |
| download | bitbake-0f3e9d87168813ce49995ff04bccdce11c5f7b47.tar.gz | |
bitbake-user-manual: details about variable flags starting with underscore
Fixes [YOCTO #14140]
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst index b533d9dc0..b7c3d8091 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 -------------------------------- |