[yocto] naming .bb files

[Burton, Ross]

On 8 July 2013 16:02, Barros Pena, Belen <belen.barros.pena at intel.com> wrote:
> There seem to be certain rules regarding .bb files naming, but apparently
> those are not written anywhere. Some of those rules seem to be:
>
> * No spaces
> * Underscores can only by used to separate name and version
> * No ASCII special characters
> * No non-ASCII characters
> * No uppercase letters
>
> Does anybody know of any others we should be aware of?

I wasn't aware of any restrictions on uppercase, but the recipe name
part is probably restricted to ASCII alphanumeric (a-z, 0-9) and ASCII
hyphens, then a underscore for the version separator, which is
alphanumeric and periods.

Ross