From patchwork Wed Feb 11 18:06:21 2026 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Quentin Schulz X-Patchwork-Id: 80924 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FF1ECD6E0 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:06:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-190d.mail.infomaniak.ch (smtp-190d.mail.infomaniak.ch [185.125.25.13]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.msgproc01-g2.25478.1770833192708117228 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:06:33 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@0leil.net header.s=20231125 header.b=YpijehKQ; spf=pass (domain: 0leil.net, ip: 185.125.25.13, mailfrom: foss+yocto@0leil.net) Received: from smtp-4-0000.mail.infomaniak.ch (unknown [IPv6:2001:1600:7:10::a6b]) by smtp-4-3000.mail.infomaniak.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4fB5wQ5l9pzC22; Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:06:30 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=0leil.net; s=20231125; t=1770833190; bh=WSXc47pUNY65BTpch+5vXCYfACEp0V2Dos511v5FpL0=; h=From:Date:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:To:Cc:From; b=YpijehKQqqsTeEppGZ2ZldRrEo3fokoHfCxFp3zVG6rXwHCI6KSuetwUfuPSn5OvV u75rkBpbcKSPV8sHFuvhVJFpYIWSjkrQEjyoDJtDHib6cMsmdgZ6obuxVbzcTWSUUR FTTmEachBg2sKbz78j0kXPNombOgPcW8HZU4JxBJwfr+Nxm7/6XISEzWUmTxr9qr2y 6MMOOy+DbVFNXKo8yJ8Zmg50MwTAbVNDx7r8j7jLO2CH5KDXLRTghBeirr32m0mSt9 +QfUJLKivpomiAR0l2+YsHPJpZp8/Ih3FCsO6Dag5iA2Ac5QyefHApXDwj0CN5KQPE aba7NrsbjeBGQ== Received: from unknown by smtp-4-0000.mail.infomaniak.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4fB5wQ1q5dzgcn; Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:06:30 +0100 (CET) From: Quentin Schulz Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:06:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] doc: bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables: have directory examples be consistent MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20260211-bbmask-slashes-v1-2-b72161c647ef@cherry.de> References: <20260211-bbmask-slashes-v1-0-b72161c647ef@cherry.de> In-Reply-To: <20260211-bbmask-slashes-v1-0-b72161c647ef@cherry.de> To: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , docs@lists.yoctoproject.org, Quentin Schulz X-Mailer: b4 0.15-dev-47773 X-Infomaniak-Routing: alpha List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from 45-33-107-173.ip.linodeusercontent.com [45.33.107.173] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:06:38 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel/message/19010 From: Quentin Schulz It's a bit confusing to have a mix of paths with and without a leading slash. The behavior is actually different. The next commit will explain when/why to add a leading slash. Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz --- doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst index 18bbd638d..f20a9012c 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst @@ -1054,13 +1054,13 @@ overview of their function and contents. BitBake to ignore all recipe and recipe append files in ``meta-ti/recipes-misc/`` directories (and their subdirectories):: - BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc/" + BBMASK = "/meta-ti/recipes-misc/" If you want to mask out multiple directories or recipes, you can specify multiple regular expression fragments. This next example masks out multiple directories and individual recipes:: - BBMASK += "/meta-ti/recipes-misc/ meta-ti/recipes-ti/packagegroup/" + BBMASK += "/meta-ti/recipes-ti/packagegroup/" BBMASK += "/meta-oe/recipes-support/" BBMASK += "/meta-foo/.*/openldap" BBMASK += "opencv.*\.bbappend"