Bug 5411 - Create a mechanism to allow .bbappend files to use a wildcard to match version numbers
Summary: Create a mechanism to allow .bbappend files to use a wildcard to match versio...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 1.6
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium+ enhancement
Target Milestone: 1.6 M2
Assignee: Saul Wold
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Blocks: 5464
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Reported: 2013-10-29 17:21 UTC by Saul Wold
Modified: 2013-12-24 11:16 UTC (History)
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Type of Regression: New (Never tested)
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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