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| author |   Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> | 2018-10-24 16:11:03 -0700 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-10-29 16:54:41 +0000 |
| commit | 0cfc71d1a342b82781b0ba547421e41f6340902a (patch) | |
| tree | 2aecf95d0960d6a0ab2918bdf40f19dcb55739a0 /doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml | |
| parent | 0a4377cb1837ede213d9640344f4908de3689d91 (diff) | |
| download | bitbake-0cfc71d1a342b82781b0ba547421e41f6340902a.tar.gz | |
bitbake-user-manual: Updates to variable wildcard support.yocto-2.62018-10-thud1.40.0
Fixes [YOCTO #12390]
Applied some fixes to the variable wildcard support documentation
in the BitBake manual. Wording changes and changes to make links
referencing Python syntax go to version 3 rather than version 2.
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml index d480881a2..a84b2bc99 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml @@ -126,11 +126,18 @@ BB_ALLOWED_NETWORKS = "*.gnu.org" </literallayout> <note><title>Important</title> - The use of the "<filename>*</filename>" + <para>The use of the "<filename>*</filename>" character only works at the beginning of - a host name. + a host name and it must be isolated from + the remainder of the host name. You cannot use the wildcard character in any - other location of the name. + other location of the name or combined with + the front part of the name.</para> + + <para>For example, + <filename>*.foo.bar</filename> is supported, + while <filename>*aa.foo.bar</filename> is not. + </para> </note> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> @@ -1098,7 +1105,7 @@ <para> When specifying recipe files, you can pattern match using Python's - <ulink url='https://docs.python.org/2/library/glob.html'><filename>glob</filename></ulink> + <ulink url='https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html'><filename>glob</filename></ulink> syntax. For details on the syntax, see the documentation by following the previous link. @@ -1198,7 +1205,7 @@ the files. For complete syntax information, see Python's documentation at - <ulink url='http://docs.python.org/release/2.3/lib/re-syntax.html'></ulink>. + <ulink url='http://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re'></ulink>. </para> <para> |