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ref-manual: Updated the BBMASK variable description. 

(From yocto-docs rev: 0ae8d79993eef08c659e609af7e0afa09dcb9158)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark 2016-01-27 15:15:18 -08:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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<glossentry id='var-BBMASK'><glossterm>BBMASK</glossterm>
<info>
BBMASK[doc] = "Prevents BitBake from processing specific recipes or recipe append files. Use the BBMASK variable from within conf/local.conf."
BBMASK[doc] = "Prevents BitBake from processing specific recipes or recipe append files."
</info>
<glossdef>
<para role="glossdeffirst">
<!-- <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> -->
Prevents BitBake from processing recipes and recipe
append files.
Use the <filename>BBMASK</filename> variable from within the
<filename>conf/local.conf</filename> file found
in the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#build-directory'>Build Directory</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
@ -1218,14 +1214,14 @@
to "hide" these <filename>.bb</filename> and
<filename>.bbappend</filename> files.
BitBake ignores any recipe or recipe append files that
match the expression.
match any of the expressions.
It is as if BitBake does not see them at all.
Consequently, matching files are not parsed or otherwise
used by BitBake.</para>
<para>
The value you provide is passed to Python's regular
The values you provide are passed to Python's regular
expression compiler.
The expression is compared against the full paths to
The expressions are compared against the full paths to
the files.
For complete syntax information, see Python's
documentation at
@ -1241,18 +1237,16 @@
BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc/"
</literallayout>
If you want to mask out multiple directories or recipes,
use the vertical bar to separate the regular expression
fragments.
you can specify multiple regular expression fragments.
This next example masks out multiple directories and
individual recipes:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc/|meta-ti/recipes-ti/packagegroup/"
BBMASK .= "|.*meta-oe/recipes-support/"
BBMASK .= "|.*openldap"
BBMASK .= "|.*opencv"
BBMASK .= "|.*lzma"
BBMASK += "/meta-ti/recipes-misc/ meta-ti/recipes-ti/packagegroup/"
BBMASK += "/meta-oe/recipes-support/"
BBMASK += "/meta-foo/.*/openldap"
BBMASK += "opencv.*\.bbappend"
BBMASK += "lzma"
</literallayout>
Notice how the vertical bar is used to append the fragments.
<note>
When specifying a directory name, use the trailing
slash character to ensure you match just that directory