[poky] [PATCH 3/5] ref-manual: Update the help for BBMASK

Scott Rifenbark srifenbark at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 15:14:57 PST 2016


This has been applied.  see
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.1/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-BBMASK.


Thanks

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Peter Kjellerstedt <
peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com> wrote:

> Update the help for BBMASK to reflect that it is now allowed to
> contain multiple regular expressions. Also changed the examples for
> BBMASK to be a bit more diverse.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com>
> ---
>  documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 26 ++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
> b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
> index 673e431..49aea7a 100644
> --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
> +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
> @@ -1200,17 +1200,13 @@
>
>          <glossentry id='var-BBMASK'><glossterm>BBMASK</glossterm>
>              <info>
> -                BBMASK[doc] = "Prevents BitBake from processing specific
> recipes or recipe append files. Use the BBMASK variable from within
> conf/local.conf."
> +                BBMASK[doc] = "Prevents BitBake from processing specific
> recipes or recipe append files."
>              </info>
>              <glossdef>
>                  <para role="glossdeffirst">
>  <!--                <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata
> fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> -->
>                      Prevents BitBake from processing recipes and recipe
>                      append files.
> -                    Use the <filename>BBMASK</filename> variable from
> within the
> -                    <filename>conf/local.conf</filename> file found
> -                    in the
> -                    <ulink
> url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#build-directory'>Build Directory</ulink>.
>                  </para>
>
>                  <para>
> @@ -1218,14 +1214,14 @@
>                      to "hide" these <filename>.bb</filename> and
>                      <filename>.bbappend</filename> files.
>                      BitBake ignores any recipe or recipe append files that
> -                    match the expression.
> +                    match any of the expressions.
>                      It is as if BitBake does not see them at all.
>                      Consequently, matching files are not parsed or
> otherwise
>                      used by BitBake.</para>
>                  <para>
> -                    The value you provide is passed to Python's regular
> +                    The values you provide are passed to Python's regular
>                      expression compiler.
> -                    The expression is compared against the full paths to
> +                    The expressions are compared against the full paths to
>                      the files.
>                      For complete syntax information, see Python's
>                      documentation at
> @@ -1241,18 +1237,16 @@
>       BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc/"
>                      </literallayout>
>                      If you want to mask out multiple directories or
> recipes,
> -                    use the vertical bar to separate the regular
> expression
> -                    fragments.
> +                    you can specify multiple regular expression fragments.
>                      This next example masks out multiple directories and
>                      individual recipes:
>                      <literallayout class='monospaced'>
> -     BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc/|meta-ti/recipes-ti/packagegroup/"
> -     BBMASK .= "|.*meta-oe/recipes-support/"
> -     BBMASK .= "|.*openldap"
> -     BBMASK .= "|.*opencv"
> -     BBMASK .= "|.*lzma"
> +     BBMASK += "/meta-ti/recipes-misc/ meta-ti/recipes-ti/packagegroup/"
> +     BBMASK += "/meta-oe/recipes-support/"
> +     BBMASK += "/meta-foo/.*/openldap"
> +     BBMASK += "opencv.*\.bbappend"
> +     BBMASK += "lzma"
>                      </literallayout>
> -                    Notice how the vertical bar is used to append the
> fragments.
>                      <note>
>                          When specifying a directory name, use the trailing
>                          slash character to ensure you match just that
> directory
> --
> 2.1.0
>
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