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BitBake override style removal with variable expansion

I face a problem that I tried to use the BitBake override style removal with variable expansion.

I have a foo.bb and set FOO_PACKAGES = "${PN}_dummy" And I use a foo.bbappend to remove it by FOO_PACKAGES_remove = "${PN}_dummy"

This doesn't work.

However, FOO_PACKAGES_remove = "foo_dummy" works fine.

Furthermore I tried other variable names besides PN, e.g.

FOO_PACKAGES = "foo_dummy"
FOONAME = "foo"
FOO_PACKAGES_remove = "${FOONAME}_dummy"

This doesn't work either.

So maybe there is some issue with variable expansion in the override style removal?

I use BitBake 1.22 and am sorry I cannot test the master branch on my working environment.

BitBake Build Tool Core version 1.22.0, bitbake version 1.22.0

Does somebody have some idea about the behavior?

Solution

  • I suspect you need this patch:

    http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/commit/lib/bb/data_smart.py?h=1.24&id=72a1ca4a104ccab73d6abcbd44db9c2636a58572

    which is in bitbake 1.24 and above.