[yocto] writeup on the mechanics of FILESEXTRAPATHS and bbappend files

[Trevor Woerner]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> I also think it would be good to point out the use of := in the
> FILESEXTRAPATHS
> assignment and why it's important.

Knowing that the := operator will put your directories first is only
useful if you also know that the underlying mechanism will take the
first such files from the given directories it encounters :-) What's
to say bitbake doesn't look at all the directories/files and take the
last ones?