Message ID | a51e68544f97fce8c1b136b4f78fc0da8c69e9d6.1668003926.git.steve@sakoman.com |
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State | New |
Headers | show |
Series | [langdale,2.2,1/4] 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 b533d9dc..b7c3d809 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 --------------------------------