On Tue, 2017-08-29 at 10:20 +0200, Anders Darander wrote: > Hi, > > * Yeoh Ee Peng <[email protected]> [170829 04:11]: > > > > > Since we disabled uppercase characters in overrides a few releases > > ago, uppercase characters in recipe names (and for that matter, > > distro > > and machine names) cannot be supported due to their reliance upon > > overrides including the name. > > > > QA check will produce an warning message when it verify that recipe > > name is uppercase. > > > > [YOCTO# 11592] > Could you add QA checks also for uppercase in machine and distro > names? > > When giving an on-site training last winter (using Morty), I helped > the > customer solve quite a few issues stemming from the fact that they > had a > machine name with uppercase letters in. > > I know that the bug in question specifically talks about recipe name, > though adding checks for them all would be even better, IMHO.
I'd just note that such checks would belong somewhere else like sanity.bbclass rather than here (we can check once per config, not per recipe). Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
