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[v3,00/13] Confusing and invalid conditional appends

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Michal Sieron March 17, 2026, 8:28 p.m. UTC
This patchset fixes several findings for variable assignments of form:
    A:someoverride += "foo"
and transforms them into:
    A:append:someoverride = " foo"

In most of those cases I assume the original intent was to have a
conditional append, but what was actually happening was append to
a conditional override.

I first noticed such problem in our internal recipes and bbappends, but
then I decided to check if similar issue exists upstream and turns out
it does.

---
Changes in v3:
- Use normal assignment in libffi and expat instead
- Fix package name typo in musl-locales
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260317-fix-invalid-appends-v2-0-5c65ae5787d9@gmail.com

Changes in v2:
- Split initial single commit into smaller ones
- Described actual impact on the overriden variables
- Added some recipes that I missed last time
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260314-fix-invalid-appends-v1-1-03ec0bff6942@gmail.com

---
Michal Sieron (13):
      libffi: Convert confusing append to assignment
      coreutils: Convert confusing append to override syntax
      expat: Convert confusing append to assignment
      tune-power[567]: Remove confusing overrides
      no-gplv3.inc: Convert confusing appends to override syntax
      bootchart2: Convert confusing appends to override syntax
      pigz: Convert confusing append to override syntax
      systemtap: Convert confusing append to override syntax
      ovmf: Convert confusing append to override syntax
      dnf: Convert confusing append to override syntax
      qemu: Convert confusing append to override syntax
      recipes-devtools/python: Convert confusing appends to override syntax
      musl-locales: Fix locale-base-sr-sr typo

 meta/conf/distro/include/no-gplv3.inc                    |  4 ++--
 meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/tune-power5.inc        |  3 +--
 meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/tune-power6.inc        |  3 +--
 meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/tune-power7.inc        |  3 +--
 meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.10.bb            |  4 ++--
 meta/recipes-core/expat/expat_2.7.4.bb                   |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-locales_git.bb               |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb                       |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/bootchart2/bootchart2_0.14.9.bb    | 10 +++++-----
 meta/recipes-devtools/dnf/dnf_4.24.0.bb                  |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-asn1crypto_1.5.1.bb |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-bcrypt_5.0.0.bb     |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-chardet_5.2.0.bb    |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-cython_3.2.4.bb     |  4 ++--
 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-ply_3.11.bb         |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pyasn1_0.6.2.bb     |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pycparser_3.0.bb    |  4 ++--
 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pysocks_1.7.1.bb    |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytz_2025.2.bb      |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_10.2.0.bb                |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz_2.8.bb                   |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap_5.4.bb           |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.5.2.bb              |  2 +-
 23 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 2dc4d2f8b5c7a6e87291385fb860436593767199
change-id: 20260314-fix-invalid-appends-cf5197ef2f07

Best regards,

Comments

Khem Raj March 17, 2026, 8:33 p.m. UTC | #1
this version looks good.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM Michal Sieron via lists.openembedded.org
<michalwsieron=gmail.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:

> This patchset fixes several findings for variable assignments of form:
>     A:someoverride += "foo"
> and transforms them into:
>     A:append:someoverride = " foo"
>
> In most of those cases I assume the original intent was to have a
> conditional append, but what was actually happening was append to
> a conditional override.
>
> I first noticed such problem in our internal recipes and bbappends, but
> then I decided to check if similar issue exists upstream and turns out
> it does.
>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Use normal assignment in libffi and expat instead
> - Fix package name typo in musl-locales
> - Link to v2:
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260317-fix-invalid-appends-v2-0-5c65ae5787d9@gmail.com
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Split initial single commit into smaller ones
> - Described actual impact on the overriden variables
> - Added some recipes that I missed last time
> - Link to v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260314-fix-invalid-appends-v1-1-03ec0bff6942@gmail.com
>
> ---
> Michal Sieron (13):
>       libffi: Convert confusing append to assignment
>       coreutils: Convert confusing append to override syntax
>       expat: Convert confusing append to assignment
>       tune-power[567]: Remove confusing overrides
>       no-gplv3.inc: Convert confusing appends to override syntax
>       bootchart2: Convert confusing appends to override syntax
>       pigz: Convert confusing append to override syntax
>       systemtap: Convert confusing append to override syntax
>       ovmf: Convert confusing append to override syntax
>       dnf: Convert confusing append to override syntax
>       qemu: Convert confusing append to override syntax
>       recipes-devtools/python: Convert confusing appends to override syntax
>       musl-locales: Fix locale-base-sr-sr typo
>
>  meta/conf/distro/include/no-gplv3.inc                    |  4 ++--
>  meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/tune-power5.inc        |  3 +--
>  meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/tune-power6.inc        |  3 +--
>  meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/tune-power7.inc        |  3 +--
>  meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.10.bb            |  4 ++--
>  meta/recipes-core/expat/expat_2.7.4.bb                   |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-locales_git.bb               |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb                       |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/bootchart2/bootchart2_0.14.9.bb    | 10 +++++-----
>  meta/recipes-devtools/dnf/dnf_4.24.0.bb                  |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-asn1crypto_1.5.1.bb |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-bcrypt_5.0.0.bb     |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-chardet_5.2.0.bb    |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-cython_3.2.4.bb     |  4 ++--
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-ply_3.11.bb         |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pyasn1_0.6.2.bb     |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pycparser_3.0.bb    |  4 ++--
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pysocks_1.7.1.bb    |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytz_2025.2.bb      |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_10.2.0.bb                |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz_2.8.bb                   |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap_5.4.bb           |  2 +-
>  meta/recipes-support/libffi/libffi_3.5.2.bb              |  2 +-
>  23 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 2dc4d2f8b5c7a6e87291385fb860436593767199
> change-id: 20260314-fix-invalid-appends-cf5197ef2f07
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Michal Sieron <michalwsieron@gmail.com>
>
>
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