oelint.vars.srcuriappend.md

oelint.vars.srcuriappend

severity: error

Example

In any bitbake recipe

SRC_URI += "file://abc"
inherit def

Why is this bad?

If the inherit class uses SRC_URI ?= "file://ghi" the setting would be ignored, a weak variable default only become effective if there's no previous value.

Depending on what should be done the SRC_URI operation in the recipe should a hard assignment SRC_URI = "file://abc" to override the default choices of the inherit class.

Or if it should be an append it needs to be SRC_URI:append = " file://abc"

Ways to fix it

To override any default value use

SRC_URI = "file://abc"
inherit def

or to append use

SRC_URI += "file://abc"
inherit def