From patchwork Mon Mar 7 16:33:54 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Michael Opdenacker X-Patchwork-Id: 4842 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 6557CC433FE for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2022 16:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (relay7-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.200]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web09.28691.1646670862968908266 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:34:23 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@bootlin.com header.s=gm1 header.b=bybewBe3; spf=pass (domain: bootlin.com, ip: 217.70.183.200, mailfrom: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) Received: (Authenticated sender: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F3DDF20004; Mon, 7 Mar 2022 16:34:20 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=gm1; t=1646670861; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=Bn6Z3ylvz9p+eCBGY9JpQml77VMgbopX5eCTy7dGoSM=; b=bybewBe3LaqEY0gJP1DUD3DMS5Y2MFzPSmYSGcE07Pox1c61fKso/ewQzjRKOJMKxYUDXn BeZBkaXLfKilM5PsQLKynF5XGO5YqjVEMzXY85lEp4x3Pw2ol5VBpPZTmY3z/RXYp7ggEj DXQru9TsupKLFiuJ8Q0laNjynW14ilhBmWlTWJBOAOuZwTbh220nC9cpE+eH8G4HKcQah9 s+TVDBNtbdp02OL/ihrlQJTjrVybyi1K6UHmd20nMWOVsqKeAeB/D1R/72Ck3x7TU/znFG iTEgLGCgUX30TNzbnzgn1p/kMstgG/cMBHpLnLTVJXDn5nX3meNtKlUf7z+91A== From: Michael Opdenacker To: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org Cc: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org, Michael Opdenacker Subject: [PATCH] bitbake-user-manual: update allowed characters in overrides Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 17:33:54 +0100 Message-Id: <20220307163354.531374-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <16DA1113B58DA516.28939@lists.openembedded.org> References: <16DA1113B58DA516.28939@lists.openembedded.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from li982-79.members.linode.com [45.33.32.79] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2022 16:34:24 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/2538 Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker --- An open question is whether digits and/or hashes are allowed at the begining of an override keyword. Will be happy to send a V2 to explicit this if needed. doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst index b90e5cf0..104dcb6c 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst @@ -510,8 +510,8 @@ variable. .. note:: - Overrides can only use lower-case characters. Additionally, - colons are not permitted in override names as they are used to + Overrides can only use lower-case characters, digits and dashes. + In particular, colons are not permitted in override names as they are used to separate overrides from each other and from the variable name. - *Selecting a Variable:* The :term:`OVERRIDES` variable is a