[yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more comprehensively?

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Please feel free (anyone) to provide some useful examples and a bit of explanation for each and I will be happy to get them in the manual(s).

Scott

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>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
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>Subject: [yocto] might it be worth explaining BBMASK more
>comprehensively?
>
>
>  a bit more pedantry, but is there a more complete example of the use
>of BBMASK than the trivial example in the ref and dev manuals?
>
>  the ref manual provides this example by way of explanation:
>
>BBMASK = ".*/meta-ti/recipes-misc/"
>
>well, ok, except you occasinally find slight variations like:
>
>BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc/"
>
>or
>
>BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc"
>
>  given that there are places where a trailing slash is significant,
>are all of the above exactly equivalent?  if so, that's worth noting.
>
>  also, what about an example showing masking out a couple
>directories, or perhaps a single recipe from a layer, and so on?  at
>the moment, the manuals suggest you can mask multiple recipes but
>nowhere do i see the reader being given an actual example of how to do
>that.
>
>rday
>
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