From the commit message: bitbake: cookerdata: Add support for BBFILES_DYNAMIC BBFILES_DYNAMIC can be used to activate content only when some other layers are present. The other layers are identified by the collections that they define. The main use case is to avoid .bbappends without the corresponding .bb file in layers that want to modify other layers via .bbappends without introducing a hard dependency on those other layers. .bb files could also be handled via BBFILES_DYNAMIC. Entries in BBFILES_DYNAMIC must have the form <collection name>:<filename pattern>. Example usage: BBFILES_DYNAMIC += " \ clang-layer:${LAYERDIR}/bbappends/meta-clang/*/*/*.bbappend \ core:${LAYERDIR}/bbappends/openembedded-core/meta/*/*/*.bbappend \ " Parsing is aborted when invalid entries are found with an error message like this: ERROR: BBFILES_DYNAMIC entries must be of the form <collection name>:<filename pattern>, not: /work/my-layer/bbappends/meta-security-isafw/*/*/*.bbappend /work/my-layer/bbappends/openembedded-core/meta/*/*/*.bbappend Based on a patch by Richard Purdie.
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Brian - I've added this variable description to the glossary. Would you please take a look at http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.5/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-BBFILES_DYNAMIC Let me know if additional changes are necessary. Thanks!
Fixed in 0906e9080e1c150feab60bb9d095688d274a061e.
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