On Mon, 2026-07-13 at 12:32 +0100, Jose Quaresma wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 9:38 PM Richard Purdie 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2026-07-10 at 16:57 +0100, Jose Quaresma via lists.openembedded.org 
> > wrote:
> > > BUILD_ID is defined using a weak assignment so that we can modify it
> > > externally. However, if we do it, we also need to do the same thing
> > > for BUILD_ID[vardepsexclude] with the new value we assigned to
> > > BUILD_ID.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jose Quaresma <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >  meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb 
> > > b/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb
> > > index e1906d05d8..bbbf9e3e11 100644
> > > --- a/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb
> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb
> > > @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ CPE_DISTRO ??= "${DISTRO}"
> > >  CPE_NAME = "cpe:/o:openembedded:${CPE_DISTRO}:${VERSION_ID}"
> > >  
> > >  BUILD_ID ?= "${DATETIME}"
> > > -BUILD_ID[vardepsexclude] = "DATETIME"
> > > +BUILD_ID[vardepsexclude] ?= "DATETIME"
> > >  
> > 
> > I'm a bit surprised you can't just append to it and leave DATETIME in
> > there regardless of whether it is still used or not...
> > 
> 
> 
> I can't use '+=' in my conf/local.conf because '=' on the recipe has 
> precedence.
> I also can't use the 'append' because it doesn't work with flags.
> 
> I guess I only have the chance to use os-release.bbappend left.
> However, to maintain the layer YP compatible, I need to use an override,
> and this implies the use of another variable.
> 
> MY_BUILD_ID = "my-build-id"
> 
> MY_BUILD_ID_AUX:override = "${MY_BUILD_ID}"
> BUILD_ID = "${MY_BUILD_ID_AUX}"
> BUILD_ID[vardepsexclude] += "MY_BUILD_ID_AUX"
> 
> However, I didn't want to have this in a bbappend because it's not very 
> elegant
> and this is mostly meant to be used only in CI.
> 
> There might be another way to do this, but I don't see how without using the 
> weak assignment.

You're right and I was just thinking about this from quite the right
perspective, sorry! :)

Cheers,

Richard
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