precise details on processing of multiple .bbappend files across multiple layers?

precise details on processing of multiple .bbappend files across multiple layers?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i realize i should know the answer to this, but it's friday and i'm
tired. i want to know the precise processing order for the bbappend
files for a single recipe over multiple layers. (i realize it's
already a bad design if i have so many bbappend files for the same
recipe that i get confused knowing how they're processed. :-)

  if i have a recipe, say, rday_1.2.3.bb, and numerous rday*bbappend
files spread across several layers, i already know that those layers
are processed in increasing priority, so that higher-priority layers
will overwrite the settings of lower-priority layers. so far, so good.

  now, in each layer, the selection of any bbappend file will be based
on specificity, so in my case, selection order might be:

  * rday_1.2.3.bbappend
  * rday_1.%.bbappend
  * rday_%.bbappend

and as long as that's true, i'm assuming that search order is
restarted for each layer, so that if i have:

  * layer priority 5, rday_1.2.%.bbappend
  * layer priority 6, rday_1.%.bbappend

the first of the above will be processed, but will be superseded by
the second even though it is a more generic wildcard, correct?

  finally, if i have multiple layers with the same priority, what is
the processing order of bbappend files there? is it random? based on
wildcard specificity?

  thanks muchly.

rday

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Re: precise details on processing of multiple .bbappend files across multiple layers?

[Christopher Larson]

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On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 3:48 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>
>   i realize i should know the answer to this, but it's friday and i'm
> tired. i want to know the precise processing order for the bbappend
> files for a single recipe over multiple layers. (i realize it's
> already a bad design if i have so many bbappend files for the same
> recipe that i get confused knowing how they're processed. :-)
>
>   if i have a recipe, say, rday_1.2.3.bb, and numerous rday*bbappend
> files spread across several layers, i already know that those layers
> are processed in increasing priority, so that higher-priority layers
> will overwrite the settings of lower-priority layers. so far, so good.
>
>   now, in each layer, the selection of any bbappend file will be based
> on specificity, so in my case, selection order might be:
>
>   * rday_1.2.3.bbappend
>   * rday_1.%.bbappend
>   * rday_%.bbappend
>
> and as long as that's true, i'm assuming that search order is
> restarted for each layer, so that if i have:
>
>   * layer priority 5, rday_1.2.%.bbappend
>   * layer priority 6, rday_1.%.bbappend
>
> the first of the above will be processed, but will be superseded by
> the second even though it is a more generic wildcard, correct?
>

Yes, the specificity of the append isn't a factor in ordering today, as far
as I know.


>   finally, if i have multiple layers with the same priority, what is
> the processing order of bbappend files there? is it random? based on
> wildcard specificity?
>

You should treat it as undefined. Don't rely on it. I *think* a recent
patch went in to at least make it deterministic by sorting in some fashion,
but afaik that's not guaranteed, and wasn't true in the past.

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