[OE-core] is 'SRC_URI_append += "file://appendtest.txt"' in layerappend.py deliberate?

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   just noticed in meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/layerappend.py this
> snippet:
>
> ////// start
>
>     append = """
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
>
> SRC_URI_append = " file://appendtest.txt"     <--- first
>
> sysroot_stage_all_append() {
>         install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/appendtest.txt ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}/
> }
>
> """
>
>     append2 = """
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
>
> SRC_URI_append += "file://appendtest.txt"     <--- second
> """
>
> ////// end
>
>   is there some reason that SRC_URI_append is done correctly in that
> first example, but in that weirdly superfluous way using "+=" in the
> second example?

send a patch to fix it append +=  is usually not preferred.

>
> rday
>
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