Message ID | 20220921133118.109417-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com |
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State | Accepted, archived |
Commit | 0f3e9d87168813ce49995ff04bccdce11c5f7b47 |
Headers | show |
Series | bitbake-user-manual: details about variable flags starting with underscore | expand |
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst index 33782161..94e457f3 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst @@ -421,6 +421,12 @@ 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 --------------------------------