Bug 5411

Summary: Create a mechanism to allow .bbappend files to use a wildcard to match version numbers
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Saul Wold <sgw>
Component: coreAssignee: Saul Wold <sgw>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium+ CC: alexandrux.palalau, bluelightning, jessica.zhang, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, richard.purdie
Version: 1.6   
Target Milestone: 1.6 M2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: New (Never tested)
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 5464    

Description Saul Wold 2013-10-29 17:21:34 UTC 
Currently, when a package is updated the corresponding layers that might have a .bbappend file also need to be updated.  It would be beneficial if we could have a Regular expression of some kind in the .bbappend file name to allow for matching those updates with in a constrained set of possibilities.

Clearly we can't use standard RE characters due to them being in a filename and it should be readable.
Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2013-10-29 17:28:06 UTC 
This would be a wildcard, not a regular expression. Richard has suggested the possibility of using % (as used in PREFERRED_VERSION).
Comment 3 Alexandru Palalau 2013-12-24 11:16:48 UTC 
Verified on master branch.
Commit ID: 005af45191ded6185c618c708181b31281e43092