bitbake: hob & bitbake: append a value to a variable from hob throught bitbake

It was necessary to append ${TOPDIR}/recipes/images to BBFILES.
Implemented the mechanism to append a value to a variable: a command and
the method in cooker.

[YOCTO #4193]
(Bitbake rev: 4aedbee90bd92395c2460a68702e6ede00e256c9)

Signed-off-by: Cristiana Voicu <cristiana.voicu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/data.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/data.py
index 87c4808b5e..8c9cb0f025 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/data.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/data.py
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ def delVar(var, d):
     """Removes a variable from the data set"""
     d.delVar(var)
 
+def appendVar(var, value, d):
+    """Append additional value to a variable"""
+    d.appendVar(var, value)
+
 def setVarFlag(var, flag, flagvalue, d):
     """Set a flag for a given variable to a given value"""
     d.setVarFlag(var, flag, flagvalue)