Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/2] bitbake-setup: add source choices

Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:58:11 +0200
Newsgroups org.openembedded.lists.bitbake-devel
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On Thu, 18 Jun 2026 at 20:04, Ernest Van Hoecke
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The consolidated registry examples intentionally do not preserve the
> exact setup-dir-name behavior of the existing release-specific files.
> Today, setup-dir-name can substitute oe-fragments-one-of selections, but
> it has no way to refer to the selected source choice. Possible follow-ups
> include a built-in source-choice substitution variable or a different way
> to model source/config combination metadata. For a substitution variable,
> we have to prevent collision with a fragment choice.

Yes, there probably should be a 'special' variable for substituting
the selected source, and a check that there's no fragment selection
that has the name (in the unlikely case there's an accidental clash -
it's easy to address by tweaking the name of the fragment selection
block).

Alex