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* Change in behaviour
@ 2015-11-20 14:47 Gary Thomas
  2015-11-20 14:56 ` Philip Balister
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gary Thomas @ 2015-11-20 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Yocto Project

This commit:
   commit 536b73f55f51fcea555338f9a557fe86c09d00cb
   Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
   Date:   Sun Oct 11 10:21:20 2015 +0100
     bitbake: data_smart: Only support lowercase OVERRIDES
breaks the use of capital letters, specifically in MACHINE names.
I use this a lot, along with COMPATIBLE_MACHINE, to share recipes
amongst similar machines.

The commit says it could be conditional.  How hard (and how)
would it be to do that?

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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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* Re: Change in behaviour
  2015-11-20 14:47 Change in behaviour Gary Thomas
@ 2015-11-20 14:56 ` Philip Balister
  2015-11-20 15:18   ` Gary Thomas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Philip Balister @ 2015-11-20 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Gary Thomas, Yocto Project

On 11/20/2015 09:47 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> This commit:
>   commit 536b73f55f51fcea555338f9a557fe86c09d00cb
>   Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
>   Date:   Sun Oct 11 10:21:20 2015 +0100
>     bitbake: data_smart: Only support lowercase OVERRIDES
> breaks the use of capital letters, specifically in MACHINE names.
> I use this a lot, along with COMPATIBLE_MACHINE, to share recipes
> amongst similar machines.
> 
> The commit says it could be conditional.  How hard (and how)
> would it be to do that?
> 

A little background:

http://openembedded.org/wiki/OEDEM_2015#Metadata

Philip


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* Re: Change in behaviour
  2015-11-20 14:56 ` Philip Balister
@ 2015-11-20 15:18   ` Gary Thomas
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gary Thomas @ 2015-11-20 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: yocto

On 2015-11-20 07:56, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 11/20/2015 09:47 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> This commit:
>>    commit 536b73f55f51fcea555338f9a557fe86c09d00cb
>>    Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
>>    Date:   Sun Oct 11 10:21:20 2015 +0100
>>      bitbake: data_smart: Only support lowercase OVERRIDES
>> breaks the use of capital letters, specifically in MACHINE names.
>> I use this a lot, along with COMPATIBLE_MACHINE, to share recipes
>> amongst similar machines.
>>
>> The commit says it could be conditional.  How hard (and how)
>> would it be to do that?
>>
>
> A little background:
>
> http://openembedded.org/wiki/OEDEM_2015#Metadata

Fair enough + I missed the RFC for the patch that eventually went in.

That said, maybe a warning could be issued if overrides (at least MACHINEOVERRIDES)
are being defined with any upper-case letters rather than the [very silent
and hard to find] new behaviour causing issues?

I'll set off to rework all of my recipes that use upper case
letters in any way - a lot of work I'm sad to say...

-- 
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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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