devtool: handle . in recipe name

Names such as glib-2.0 are valid (and used) recipe names, so we need to
support them.

Fixes [YOCTO #7643].

(From OE-Core rev: b9fd8d4d4dfae72de2e81e9b14de072e12cecdcf)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/recipeutils.py b/meta/lib/oe/recipeutils.py
index 09bd7fdb46..19d97b62d2 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/recipeutils.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/recipeutils.py
@@ -269,8 +269,8 @@ def get_recipe_patches(d):
 def validate_pn(pn):
     """Perform validation on a recipe name (PN) for a new recipe."""
     reserved_names = ['forcevariable', 'append', 'prepend', 'remove']
-    if not re.match('[0-9a-z-]+', pn):
-        return 'Recipe name "%s" is invalid: only characters 0-9, a-z and - are allowed' % pn
+    if not re.match('[0-9a-z-.]+', pn):
+        return 'Recipe name "%s" is invalid: only characters 0-9, a-z, - and . are allowed' % pn
     elif pn in reserved_names:
         return 'Recipe name "%s" is invalid: is a reserved keyword' % pn
     elif pn.startswith('pn-'):