bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables: Update the help for BBMASK

Update the help for BBMASK to reflect that it is now allowed to
contain multiple regular expressions. Also changed the examples for
BBMASK to be a bit more diverse.

Signed-off-by: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml
index e5aeffcffb35ea040e0303db829ce3a71944a669..ae7e4cee8c0cc4ecf57d1a142330b4a5c21de949 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.xml
@@ -1142,14 +1142,14 @@
                     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
@@ -1165,18 +1165,16 @@
      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