106 files changed, 818 insertions, 818 deletions
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
index 94299431f6..032827a0d0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}"
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
-docdir_append = "/${P}"
+docdir:append = "/${P}"
 dirs1777 = "/tmp ${localstatedir}/volatile/tmp"
 dirs2775 = ""
 dirs555 = "/sys /proc"
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ conffiles = "${sysconfdir}/debian_version ${sysconfdir}/host.conf \
 # hostnames.
 #
 # The hostname can be changed outside of this recipe by using
-# hostname_pn-base-files = "my-host-name".
+# hostname:pn-base-files = "my-host-name".
 hostname = "${MACHINE}"
 BASEFILESISSUEINSTALL ?= "do_install_basefilesissue"
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ BASEFILESISSUEINSTALL ?= "do_install_basefilesissue"
 # Otherwise the directory creation will fail and we will have circular symbolic
 # links.
 # 
-pkg_preinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_preinst:${PN} () {
    #!/bin/sh -e
    if [ x"$D" = "x" ]; then
        if [ -h "/var/lock" ]; then
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ do_install () {
        fi
 }
-do_install_append_libc-glibc () {
+do_install:append:libc-glibc () {
        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/nsswitch.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/nsswitch.conf
 }
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ do_install_basefilesissue () {
 }
 do_install_basefilesissue[vardepsexclude] += "DATE"
-do_install_append_linuxstdbase() {
+do_install:append:linuxstdbase() {
        for d in ${dirs755-lsb}; do
                install -m 0755 -d ${D}$d
        done
@@ -175,10 +175,10 @@ do_install_append_linuxstdbase() {
 SYSROOT_DIRS += "${sysconfdir}/skel"
 PACKAGES = "${PN}-doc ${PN} ${PN}-dev ${PN}-dbg"
-FILES_${PN} = "/"
+FILES:${PN} = "/"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = "${docdir} ${datadir}/common-licenses"
+FILES:${PN}-doc = "${docdir} ${datadir}/common-licenses"
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/fstab ${@['', '${sysconfdir}/hostname ${sysconfdir}/hosts'][(d.getVar('hostname') != '')]} ${sysconfdir}/shells"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/fstab ${@['', '${sysconfdir}/hostname ${sysconfdir}/hosts'][(d.getVar('hostname') != '')]} ${sysconfdir}/shells"
-CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/motd ${sysconfdir}/nsswitch.conf ${sysconfdir}/profile"
+CONFFILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/motd ${sysconfdir}/nsswitch.conf ${sysconfdir}/profile"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb
index 65b3cd778d..2926a377c6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ base_passwd_tweaksysroot () {
        chmod 0755 $dest
 }
-python populate_packages_prepend() {
+python populate_packages:prepend() {
    # Add in the preinst function for ${PN}
    # We have to do this here as prior to this, passwd/group.master
    # would be unavailable. We need to create these files at preinst
@@ -98,17 +98,17 @@ if [ ! -e $D${sysconfdir}/group ]; then
 """ + group + """EOF
 fi
 """
-    d.setVar(d.expand('pkg_preinst_${PN}'), preinst)
+    d.setVar(d.expand('pkg_preinst:${PN}'), preinst)
 }
 addtask do_package after do_populate_sysroot
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-update"
-FILES_${PN}-update = "${sbindir}/* ${datadir}/${PN}"
+FILES:${PN}-update = "${sbindir}/* ${datadir}/${PN}"
-pkg_postinst_${PN}-update () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN}-update () {
 #!/bin/sh
 if [ -n "$D" ]; then
        exit 0
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox-inittab_1.33.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox-inittab_1.33.0.bb
index 3804f4f7b2..be8c06323c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox-inittab_1.33.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox-inittab_1.33.0.bb
@@ -45,14 +45,14 @@ EOF
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
 # run this on host and on target
 if [ "${SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK}" = "" ]; then
       exit 0
 fi
 }
-pkg_postinst_ontarget_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst_ontarget:${PN} () {
 # run this on the target
 if [ -e /proc/consoles ]; then
        tmp="${SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK}"
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ fi
 # Set PACKAGE_ARCH appropriately.
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
-FILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/inittab"
+FILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/inittab"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/inittab"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/inittab"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "sysvinit-inittab"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "sysvinit-inittab"
 USE_VT ?= "1"
 SYSVINIT_ENABLED_GETTYS ?= "1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
index 47fcb59302..d85e2a3d7a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
@@ -23,39 +23,39 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE = "CC='${CC}' LD='${CCLD}' V=1 ARCH=${TARGET_ARCH} CROSS_COMPILE=${
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-httpd ${PN}-udhcpd ${PN}-udhcpc ${PN}-syslog ${PN}-mdev ${PN}-hwclock"
-FILES_${PN}-httpd = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/busybox-httpd /srv/www"
+FILES:${PN}-httpd = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/busybox-httpd /srv/www"
-FILES_${PN}-syslog = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/syslog* ${sysconfdir}/syslog-startup.conf* ${sysconfdir}/syslog.conf* ${systemd_unitdir}/system/syslog.service ${sysconfdir}/default/busybox-syslog"
+FILES:${PN}-syslog = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/syslog* ${sysconfdir}/syslog-startup.conf* ${sysconfdir}/syslog.conf* ${systemd_unitdir}/system/syslog.service ${sysconfdir}/default/busybox-syslog"
-FILES_${PN}-mdev = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/mdev ${sysconfdir}/mdev.conf ${sysconfdir}/mdev/*"
+FILES:${PN}-mdev = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/mdev ${sysconfdir}/mdev.conf ${sysconfdir}/mdev/*"
-FILES_${PN}-udhcpd = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/busybox-udhcpd"
+FILES:${PN}-udhcpd = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/busybox-udhcpd"
-FILES_${PN}-udhcpc = "${sysconfdir}/udhcpc.d ${datadir}/udhcpc"
+FILES:${PN}-udhcpc = "${sysconfdir}/udhcpc.d ${datadir}/udhcpc"
-FILES_${PN}-hwclock = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/hwclock.sh"
+FILES:${PN}-hwclock = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/hwclock.sh"
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}-httpd ${PN}-syslog ${PN}-udhcpd ${PN}-mdev ${PN}-hwclock"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}-httpd = "busybox-httpd"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}-httpd = "busybox-httpd"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}-hwclock = "hwclock.sh"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}-hwclock = "hwclock.sh"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}-mdev = "mdev"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}-mdev = "mdev"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN}-mdev = "start 04 S ."
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN}-mdev = "start 04 S ."
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}-syslog = "syslog"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}-syslog = "syslog"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}-udhcpd = "busybox-udhcpd"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}-udhcpd = "busybox-udhcpd"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}-syslog"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-syslog = "${@bb.utils.contains('SRC_URI', 'file://syslog.cfg', 'busybox-syslog.service', '', d)}"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-syslog = "${@bb.utils.contains('SRC_URI', 'file://syslog.cfg', 'busybox-syslog.service', '', d)}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-syslog = "busybox"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-syslog = "busybox"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-syslog = "${sysconfdir}/syslog-startup.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-syslog = "${sysconfdir}/syslog-startup.conf"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN}-syslog = "rsyslog sysklogd syslog-ng"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN}-syslog = "rsyslog sysklogd syslog-ng"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-mdev = "${sysconfdir}/mdev.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-mdev = "${sysconfdir}/mdev.conf"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${PN}-udhcpc"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${PN}-udhcpc"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "${@["", "busybox-inittab"][(d.getVar('VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager') == 'busybox')]}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "${@["", "busybox-inittab"][(d.getVar('VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager') == 'busybox')]}"
 inherit cml1 systemd update-rc.d ptest
 # busybox's unzip test case needs zip command, which busybox itself does not provide
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = "zip"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = "zip"
 # internal helper
 def busybox_cfg(feature, tokens, cnf, rem):
@@ -97,12 +97,12 @@ DO_IPv6 := "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ipv6', 1, 0, d)}"
 python () {
  if "${OE_DEL}":
-    d.setVar('configmangle_append', "${OE_DEL}" + "\n")
+    d.setVar('configmangle:append', "${OE_DEL}" + "\n")
  if "${OE_FEATURES}":
-    d.setVar('configmangle_append',
+    d.setVar('configmangle:append',
                   "/^### DISTRO FEATURES$/a\\\n%s\n\n" %
                   ("\\n".join((d.expand("${OE_FEATURES}").split("\n")))))
-  d.setVar('configmangle_append',
+  d.setVar('configmangle:append',
                 "/^### CROSS$/a\\\n%s\n" %
                  ("\\n".join(["CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS=\"${CFLAGS} ${HOST_CC_ARCH}\""
                        ])
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "50"
-python do_package_prepend () {
+python do_package:prepend () {
    # We need to load the full set of busybox provides from the /etc/busybox.links
    # Use this to see the update-alternatives with the right information
@@ -373,9 +373,9 @@ python do_package_prepend () {
            if alt_name == '[':
                alt_name = 'lbracket'
            if alt_name == 'klogd' or alt_name == 'syslogd':
-                d.appendVar('ALTERNATIVE_%s-syslog' % (pn), ' ' + alt_name)
+                d.appendVar('ALTERNATIVE:%s-syslog' % (pn), ' ' + alt_name)
            else:
-                d.appendVar('ALTERNATIVE_%s' % (pn), ' ' + alt_name)
+                d.appendVar('ALTERNATIVE:%s' % (pn), ' ' + alt_name)
            d.setVarFlag('ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME', alt_name, alt_link_name)
            if os.path.exists('%s%s' % (dvar, target)):
                d.setVarFlag('ALTERNATIVE_TARGET', alt_name, target)
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ python do_package_prepend () {
 # These symlinks will later be updated by update-alternatives calls.
 # The update-alternatives.bbclass' postinst script runs firstly before other
 # postinst, but this part of code needs run firstly, so add this funtion.
-python populate_packages_updatealternatives_append() {
+python populate_packages_updatealternatives:append() {
    postinst = """
 test -n 2 > /dev/null || alias test='busybox test'
 if test "x$D" = "x"; then
@@ -422,10 +422,10 @@ if grep -q "^${base_bindir}/bash$" $D${sysconfdir}/busybox.links*; then
 fi
 """
-    d.prependVar('pkg_postinst_%s' % pkg, postinst)
+    d.prependVar('pkg_postinst:%s' % pkg, postinst)
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN}_prepend () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN}:prepend () {
        # Need path to saved utils, but they may have be removed on upgrade of busybox
        # Only use shell to get paths. Also capture if busybox was saved.
        BUSYBOX=""
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ pkg_postinst_${PN}_prepend () {
        fi
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN}_append () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN}:append () {
        # If busybox exists in the remove directory it is because it was the only shell left.
        if [ "x$D" = "x" ] ; then
           if [ "x$BUSYBOX" != "x" ] ; then
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ pkg_postinst_${PN}_append () {
        fi
 } 
-pkg_prerm_${PN} () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN} () {
        # This is so you can make busybox commit suicide - removing busybox with no other packages
        # providing its files, this will make update-alternatives work, but the update-rc.d part
        # for syslog, httpd and/or udhcpd will fail if there is no other package providing sh
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ pkg_prerm_${PN} () {
        fi
 }
-pkg_postrm_${PN} () {
+pkg_postrm:${PN} () {
        # Add path to remove dir in case we removed our only grep
        if [ "x$D" = "x" ] ; then
           for busybox_rmdir in /tmp/busyboxrm-*; do
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ pkg_postrm_${PN} () {
        fi
 }
-pkg_prerm_${PN}-syslog () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN}-syslog () {
        # remove syslog
        if test "x$D" = "x"; then
                if test "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove"; then
@@ -505,4 +505,4 @@ pkg_prerm_${PN}-syslog () {
        fi
 }
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '/bin/sh /bin/ash', '', d)}"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '/bin/sh /bin/ash', '', d)}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.33.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.33.1.bb
index 4c2bc1106d..1e3e34e2a4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.33.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.33.1.bb
@@ -50,6 +50,6 @@ SRC_URI = "https://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-${PV}.tar.bz2;name=tarball \
           file://0001-gen_build_files-Use-C-locale-when-calling-sed-on-glo.patch \
           file://0001-mktemp-add-tmpdir-option.patch \
           "
-SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = " file://musl.cfg "
+SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = " file://musl.cfg "
 SRC_URI[tarball.sha256sum] = "12cec6bd2b16d8a9446dd16130f2b92982f1819f6e1c5f5887b6db03f5660d28"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.32.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.32.bb
index dd271d4968..f82572ed52 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.32.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.32.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464 \
                    file://src/ls.c;beginline=1;endline=15;md5=b7d80abf5b279320fb0e4b1007ed108b \
                    "
 DEPENDS = "gmp libcap"
-DEPENDS_class-native = ""
+DEPENDS:class-native = ""
 inherit autotools gettext texinfo
@@ -31,21 +31,21 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "4458d8de7849df44ccab15e16b1548b285224dbba5f08fac070c1c0e0b
 # runcon is not really a sandbox command, use `runcon ... setsid ...` to avoid this particular issue.
 CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2016-2781"
-EXTRA_OECONF_class-native = "--without-gmp"
+EXTRA_OECONF:class-native = "--without-gmp"
-EXTRA_OECONF_class-target = "--enable-install-program=arch,hostname --libexecdir=${libdir}"
+EXTRA_OECONF:class-target = "--enable-install-program=arch,hostname --libexecdir=${libdir}"
-EXTRA_OECONF_class-nativesdk = "--enable-install-program=arch,hostname"
+EXTRA_OECONF:class-nativesdk = "--enable-install-program=arch,hostname"
 # acl and xattr are not default features
 #
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-target ??= "\
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-target ??= "\
    ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'acl xattr', d)} \
 "
 # The lib/oe/path.py requires xattr
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-native ??= "xattr"
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-native ??= "xattr"
 # oe-core builds need xattr support
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-nativesdk ??= "xattr"
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-nativesdk ??= "xattr"
 # with, without, depends, rdepends
 #
@@ -71,16 +71,16 @@ sbindir_progs= "chroot"
 # coreutils-stdbuf without getting the rest of coreutils, but make
 # coreutils itself pull in stdbuf, so IMAGE_INSTALL += "coreutils"
 # always provides all coreutils
-PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN_class-target += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'single-binary', '', 'coreutils-stdbuf', d)}"
+PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN:class-target += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'single-binary', '', 'coreutils-stdbuf', d)}"
-FILES_coreutils-stdbuf = "${bindir}/stdbuf ${libdir}/coreutils/libstdbuf.so"
+FILES:coreutils-stdbuf = "${bindir}/stdbuf ${libdir}/coreutils/libstdbuf.so"
-RDEPENDS_coreutils_class-target += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'single-binary', '', 'coreutils-stdbuf', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:coreutils:class-target += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'single-binary', '', 'coreutils-stdbuf', d)}"
 # However, when the single-binary PACKAGECONFIG is used, stdbuf
 # functionality is built into the single coreutils binary, so there's
 # no point splitting /usr/bin/stdbuf to its own package. Instead, add
 # an RPROVIDE so that rdepending on coreutils-stdbuf will work
 # regardless of whether single-binary is in effect.
-RPROVIDES_coreutils += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'single-binary', 'coreutils-stdbuf', '', d)}"
+RPROVIDES:coreutils += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'single-binary', 'coreutils-stdbuf', '', d)}"
 # Let aclocal use the relative path for the m4 file rather than the
 # absolute since coreutils has a lot of m4 files, otherwise there might
@@ -89,20 +89,20 @@ RPROVIDES_coreutils += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'single-binary', '
 acpaths = "-I ./m4"
 # Deal with a separate builddir failure if src doesn't exist when creating version.c/version.h
-do_compile_prepend () {
+do_compile:prepend () {
        mkdir -p ${B}/src
 }
-do_install_class-native() {
+do_install:class-native() {
        autotools_do_install
        # remove groups to fix conflict with shadow-native
        rm -f ${D}${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/groups
        # The return is a must since native doesn't need the
-        # do_install_append() in the below.
+        # do_install:append() in the below.
        return
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        for i in df mktemp nice printenv base64; do mv ${D}${bindir}/$i ${D}${bindir}/$i.${BPN}; done
        install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
 # Make hostname's priority higher than busybox but lower than net-tools
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[hostname] = "90"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "lbracket ${bindir_progs} ${base_bindir_progs} ${sbindir_progs} base32 base64 nice printenv mktemp df"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "lbracket ${bindir_progs} ${base_bindir_progs} ${sbindir_progs} base32 base64 nice printenv mktemp df"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "base64.1 nice.1 mktemp.1 df.1 groups.1 kill.1 uptime.1 stat.1 hostname.1"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "base64.1 nice.1 mktemp.1 df.1 groups.1 kill.1 uptime.1 stat.1 hostname.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[hostname.1] = "${mandir}/man1/hostname.1"
@@ -166,12 +166,12 @@ BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
 inherit ptest
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "bash findutils gawk liberror-perl make perl perl-modules python3-core sed shadow"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash findutils gawk liberror-perl make perl perl-modules python3-core sed shadow"
 # -dev automatic dependencies fails as we don't want libmodule-build-perl-dev, its too heavy
 # may need tweaking if DEPENDS changes
-RRECOMMENDS_coreutils-dev[nodeprrecs] = "1"
+RRECOMMENDS:coreutils-dev[nodeprrecs] = "1"
-RRECOMMENDS_coreutils-dev = "acl-dev attr-dev gmp-dev libcap-dev bash-dev findutils-dev gawk-dev shadow-dev"
+RRECOMMENDS:coreutils-dev = "acl-dev attr-dev gmp-dev libcap-dev bash-dev findutils-dev gawk-dev shadow-dev"
 do_install_ptest () {
    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ do_install_ptest () {
    sed -i s:@libdir@:${libdir}:g ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/run-ptest
 }
-FILES_${PN}-ptest += "${bindir}/getlimits"
+FILES:${PN}-ptest += "${bindir}/getlimits"
 # These are specific to Opensuse
 CVE_WHITELIST += "CVE-2013-0221 CVE-2013-0222 CVE-2013-0223"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib_0.112.bb b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib_0.112.bb
index 003c3accc3..a03b2addfd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib_0.112.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib_0.112.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c31c73c1d8f5d06784b2ccd22e42d641 \
 SECTION = "base"
 DEPENDS = "expat glib-2.0 virtual/libintl dbus-glib-native dbus"
-DEPENDS_class-native = "glib-2.0-native dbus-native"
+DEPENDS:class-native = "glib-2.0-native dbus-native"
 SRC_URI = "https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/dbus-glib-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://no-examples.patch \
@@ -24,16 +24,16 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig gettext bash-completion gtk-doc
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[tests] = "--enable-tests,,,"
-EXTRA_OECONF_class-target = "--with-dbus-binding-tool=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/dbus-binding-tool"
+EXTRA_OECONF:class-target = "--with-dbus-binding-tool=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/dbus-binding-tool"
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-tests"
-FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:${PN} = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
-FILES_${PN}-bash-completion += "${libexecdir}/dbus-bash-completion-helper"
+FILES:${PN}-bash-completion += "${libexecdir}/dbus-bash-completion-helper"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/dbus-1.0/include ${bindir}/dbus-glib-tool"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/dbus-1.0/include ${bindir}/dbus-glib-tool"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${bindir}/dbus-binding-tool"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${bindir}/dbus-binding-tool"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-tests += "dbus-x11"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-tests += "dbus-x11"
-FILES_${PN}-tests = "${datadir}/${BPN}/tests"
+FILES:${PN}-tests = "${datadir}/${BPN}/tests"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-test_1.12.20.bb b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-test_1.12.20.bb
index 755c841bad..ae70301431 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-test_1.12.20.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-test_1.12.20.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SRC_URI += "file://run-ptest \
 DEPENDS = "dbus glib-2.0"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = ""
 S="${WORKDIR}/dbus-${PV}"
 FILESEXTRAPATHS =. "${FILE_DIRNAME}/dbus:"
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ do_install_ptest() {
        sed -i -e 's;@PTEST_PATH@;${PTEST_PATH};g'  ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/run-ptest
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "bash make dbus"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash make dbus"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_remove = "${PN}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:remove = "${PN}"
-PRIVATE_LIBS_${PN}-ptest = "libdbus-1.so.3"
+PRIVATE_LIBS:${PN}-ptest = "libdbus-1.so.3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc
index dcbcc0a9d6..b237476493 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-xml-docs \
                --enable-largefile \
                --with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket \
                "
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-target = " SYSTEMCTL=${base_bindir}/systemctl"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:class-target = " SYSTEMCTL=${base_bindir}/systemctl"
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-native = " --disable-selinux"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:class-native = " --disable-selinux"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd x11', d)} \
                   user-session \
                  "
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-native = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-native = ""
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-nativesdk = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-nativesdk = ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--enable-systemd --with-systemdsystemunitdir=${systemd_system_unitdir},--disable-systemd --without-systemdsystemunitdir,systemd"
 PACKAGECONFIG[x11] = "--with-x --enable-x11-autolaunch,--without-x --disable-x11-autolaunch, virtual/libx11 libsm"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus_1.12.20.bb b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus_1.12.20.bb
index 2f6da67510..48947209d9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus_1.12.20.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus_1.12.20.bb
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ require dbus.inc
 DEPENDS = "expat virtual/libintl autoconf-archive"
 PACKAGES += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ptest', '${PN}-ptest', '', d)}"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_dbus-ptest = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:dbus-ptest = "1"
-RDEPENDS_dbus-ptest_class-target = "dbus-test-ptest"
+RDEPENDS:dbus-ptest:class-target = "dbus-test-ptest"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-common ${PN}-tools"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${PN}-common ${PN}-tools"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-native = ""
 inherit useradd update-rc.d
@@ -25,22 +25,22 @@ python __anonymous() {
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-lib ${PN}-common ${PN}-tools"
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "dbus-common"
-USERADD_PARAM_dbus-common = "--system --home ${localstatedir}/lib/dbus \
+USERADD_PARAM:dbus-common = "--system --home ${localstatedir}/lib/dbus \
                             --no-create-home --shell /bin/false \
                             --user-group messagebus"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.conf ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/session.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.conf ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/session.conf"
-DEBIANNAME_${PN} = "dbus-1"
+DEBIANNAME:${PN} = "dbus-1"
 OLDPKGNAME = "dbus-x11"
-OLDPKGNAME_class-nativesdk = ""
+OLDPKGNAME:class-nativesdk = ""
 # for compatibility
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = "${OLDPKGNAME}"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "${OLDPKGNAME}"
-RREPLACES_${PN} += "${OLDPKGNAME}"
+RREPLACES:${PN} += "${OLDPKGNAME}"
-FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/dbus-daemon* \
+FILES:${PN} = "${bindir}/dbus-daemon* \
               ${bindir}/dbus-cleanup-sockets \
               ${bindir}/dbus-launch \
               ${bindir}/dbus-run-session \
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/dbus-daemon* \
               ${systemd_user_unitdir} \
               ${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d/dbus.conf \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-common = "${sysconfdir}/dbus-1 \
+FILES:${PN}-common = "${sysconfdir}/dbus-1 \
                      ${datadir}/dbus-1/services \
                      ${datadir}/dbus-1/system-services \
                      ${datadir}/dbus-1/session.d \
@@ -64,17 +64,17 @@ FILES_${PN}-common = "${sysconfdir}/dbus-1 \
                      ${systemd_user_unitdir}/sockets.target.wants \
                      ${nonarch_libdir}/sysusers.d/dbus.conf \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-tools = "${bindir}/dbus-uuidgen \
+FILES:${PN}-tools = "${bindir}/dbus-uuidgen \
                     ${bindir}/dbus-send \
                     ${bindir}/dbus-monitor \
                     ${bindir}/dbus-update-activation-environment \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-lib = "${libdir}/lib*.so.*"
+FILES:${PN}-lib = "${libdir}/lib*.so.*"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-lib = "${PN}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-lib = "${PN}"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/dbus-1.0/include ${bindir}/dbus-test-tool ${datadir}/xml/dbus-1"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/dbus-1.0/include ${bindir}/dbus-test-tool ${datadir}/xml/dbus-1"
 PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd sysvinit','systemd-systemctl-native','',d)}"
-pkg_postinst_dbus() {
+pkg_postinst:dbus() {
        # If both systemd and sysvinit are enabled, mask the dbus-1 init script
        if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd sysvinit','true','false',d)}; then
                if [ -n "$D" ]; then
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ do_install() {
        rm -rf ${D}${localstatedir}/run
 }
-do_install_class-native() {
+do_install:class-native() {
        autotools_do_install
        # dbus-launch has no X support so lets not install it in case the host
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ do_install_class-native() {
        rm -f ${D}${bindir}/dbus-launch
 }
-do_install_class-nativesdk() {
+do_install:class-nativesdk() {
        autotools_do_install
        # dbus-launch has no X support so lets not install it in case the host
@@ -150,4 +150,4 @@ do_install_class-nativesdk() {
 }
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-ptest += "build-deps"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-ptest += "build-deps"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc b/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc
index ed3ef3384a..b5f3778abe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ LICENSE = "MIT & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-2-Clause & PD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=25cf44512b7bc8966a48b6b1a9b7605f"
 DEPENDS = "zlib virtual/crypt"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = "ssh sshd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "ssh sshd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "openssh-sshd openssh"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "openssh-sshd openssh"
 DEPENDS += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'libpam', '', d)}"
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ PAM_PLUGINS = "libpam-runtime \
        pam-plugin-permit \
        pam-plugin-unix \
        "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '${PAM_PLUGINS}', '', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '${PAM_PLUGINS}', '', d)}"
 inherit autotools update-rc.d systemd
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ CVE_PRODUCT = "dropbear_ssh"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "dropbear"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults 10"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "dropbear.socket"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "dropbear.socket"
 SBINCOMMANDS = "dropbear dropbearkey dropbearconvert"
 BINCOMMANDS = "dbclient ssh scp"
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "\
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-harden"
 # musl does not implement wtmp/logwtmp APIs
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_libc-musl = " --disable-wtmp --disable-lastlog"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:libc-musl = " --disable-wtmp --disable-lastlog"
 do_install() {
        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir} \
@@ -110,11 +110,11 @@ do_install() {
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "20"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "${@bb.utils.filter('BINCOMMANDS', 'scp ssh', d)}"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "${@bb.utils.filter('BINCOMMANDS', 'scp ssh', d)}"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET = "${sbindir}/dropbearmulti"
-pkg_postrm_append_${PN} () {
+pkg_postrm:append_${PN} () {
  if [ -f "${sysconfdir}/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key" ]; then
        rm ${sysconfdir}/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key
  fi
@@ -123,4 +123,4 @@ pkg_postrm_append_${PN} () {
  fi
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${bindir}"
+FILES:${PN} += "${bindir}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ell/ell_0.41.bb b/meta/recipes-core/ell/ell_0.41.bb
index 5fd3077bc3..f6da957b51 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ell/ell_0.41.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ell/ell_0.41.bb
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ SRC_URI = "https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.ta
           "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "4e8dba6c53cf152dbd0fd1dc3d4c7b04abf79e20a948895f85943e586870505c"
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
    mkdir -p ${S}/build-aux
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat_2.4.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat_2.4.1.bb
index 451158a5d3..555dd0d601 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat_2.4.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat_2.4.1.bb
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/expat/expat-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "2f9b6a580b94577b150a7d5617ad4643a4301a6616ff459307df3e225bcfbf40"
-EXTRA_OECMAKE_class-native += "-DEXPAT_BUILD_DOCS=OFF"
+EXTRA_OECMAKE:class-native += "-DEXPAT_BUILD_DOCS=OFF"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "bash"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash"
 inherit cmake lib_package ptest
-do_install_ptest_class-target() {
+do_install_ptest:class-target() {
        install -m 755 ${B}/tests/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb
index b86e8d8381..4247b487ab 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv3+ & LGPL-2.1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c678957b0c8e964aa6c70fd77641a71e"
 DEPENDS = "gettext-native virtual/libiconv"
-DEPENDS_class-native = "gettext-minimal-native"
+DEPENDS:class-native = "gettext-minimal-native"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/libintl virtual/gettext"
-PROVIDES_class-native = "virtual/gettext-native"
+PROVIDES:class-native = "virtual/gettext-native"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "proxy-libintl"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "proxy-libintl"
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gettext/gettext-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://parallel.patch \
           file://use-pkgconfig.patch \
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "--without-lispdir \
                 --without-git \
                 --cache-file=${B}/config.cache \
                "
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-target = " \
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:class-target = " \
                 --with-bisonlocaledir=${datadir}/locale \
                 gt_cv_locale_fr_utf8=fr_FR \
                 gt_cv_locale_fr=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 \
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-target = " \
 "
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "croco glib libxml"
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-native = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-native = ""
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-nativesdk = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-nativesdk = ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[croco] = "--without-included-libcroco,--with-included-libcroco,libcroco"
 PACKAGECONFIG[glib] = "--without-included-glib,--with-included-glib,glib-2.0"
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[msgcat-curses] = "--with-libncurses-prefix=${STAGING_LIBDIR}/..,--
 acpaths = '-I ${S}/gettext-runtime/m4 \
           -I ${S}/gettext-tools/m4'
-do_install_append_libc-musl () {
+do_install:append:libc-musl () {
        rm -f ${D}${libdir}/charset.alias
        rm -f ${D}${includedir}/libintl.h
        rm -f ${D}${libdir}/libintl.la
@@ -79,29 +79,29 @@ do_install_append_libc-musl () {
 # 4       KiB /ep93xx/libgcc-s-dev_4.2.2-r2_ep93xx.ipk
 PACKAGES =+ "libgettextlib libgettextsrc"
-FILES_libgettextlib = "${libdir}/libgettextlib-*.so*"
+FILES:libgettextlib = "${libdir}/libgettextlib-*.so*"
-FILES_libgettextsrc = "${libdir}/libgettextsrc-*.so*"
+FILES:libgettextsrc = "${libdir}/libgettextsrc-*.so*"
 PACKAGES =+ "gettext-runtime gettext-runtime-dev gettext-runtime-doc"
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/${BPN}/*"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/${BPN}/*"
 # The its/Makefile.am has defined:
 # itsdir = $(pkgdatadir)$(PACKAGE_SUFFIX)/its
 # not itsdir = $(pkgdatadir), so use wildcard to match the version.
-FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/${BPN}-*/*"
+FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/${BPN}-*/*"
-FILES_gettext-runtime = "${bindir}/gettext \
+FILES:gettext-runtime = "${bindir}/gettext \
                         ${bindir}/ngettext \
                         ${bindir}/envsubst \
                         ${bindir}/gettext.sh \
                         ${libdir}/libasprintf.so* \
                         ${libdir}/GNU.Gettext.dll \
                        "
-FILES_gettext-runtime-dev += "${libdir}/libasprintf.a \
+FILES:gettext-runtime-dev += "${libdir}/libasprintf.a \
                      ${includedir}/autosprintf.h \
                     "
-FILES_gettext-runtime-doc = "${mandir}/man1/gettext.* \
+FILES:gettext-runtime-doc = "${mandir}/man1/gettext.* \
                             ${mandir}/man1/ngettext.* \
                             ${mandir}/man1/envsubst.* \
                             ${mandir}/man1/.* \
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ FILES_gettext-runtime-doc = "${mandir}/man1/gettext.* \
                             ${infodir}/autosprintf.info \
                            "
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    rm -f ${D}${libdir}/preloadable_libintl.so
 }
-do_install_append_class-native () {
+do_install:append:class-native () {
        rm ${D}${datadir}/aclocal/*
        rm ${D}${datadir}/gettext/config.rpath
        rm ${D}${datadir}/gettext/po/Makefile.in.in
@@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ do_install_ptest() {
    fi
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make xz"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make xz"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = "\
    glibc-gconv-big5 \
    glibc-charmap-big5 \
    glibc-gconv-cp1251 \
@@ -196,12 +196,12 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = "\
    locale-base-fr-fr \
 "
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = "\
    locale-base-de-de.iso-8859-1 \
    locale-base-fr-fr.iso-8859-1 \
 "
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-ptest += "ldflags"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-ptest += "ldflags"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-ptest += "rpaths"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-ptest += "rpaths"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.68.3.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.68.3.bb
index cbce6eae61..c71dc81202 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.68.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.68.3.bb
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNOME_MIRROR}/glib/${SHRT_VER}/glib-${PV}.tar.xz \
           file://time-test.patch \
           file://0001-correctly-use-3-parameters-for-close_range.patch \
           "
-SRC_URI_append_class-native = " file://relocate-modules.patch"
+SRC_URI:append:class-native = " file://relocate-modules.patch"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "e7e1a3c20c026109c45c9ec4a31d8dcebc22e86c69486993e565817d64be3138"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
index 71777bc459..4859d28097 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ LEAD_SONAME = "libglib-2.0.*"
 inherit meson gettext gtk-doc pkgconfig ptest-gnome upstream-version-is-even bash-completion gio-module-cache manpages
-DEPENDS_append_class-target = "${@' gtk-doc' if d.getVar('GTKDOC_ENABLED') == 'True' else ''}"
+DEPENDS:append:class-target = "${@' gtk-doc' if d.getVar('GTKDOC_ENABLED') == 'True' else ''}"
 GTKDOC_MESON_OPTION = "gtk_doc"
@@ -48,55 +48,55 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[tests] = "-Dinstalled_tests=true,-Dinstalled_tests=false,dbus"
 EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Ddtrace=false -Dfam=false -Dsystemtap=false -Dselinux=disabled"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
        sed -i -e '1s,#!.*,#!${USRBINPATH}/env python3,' ${S}/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/gdbus-codegen.in
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS} \
+FILES:${PN} = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS} \
               ${libdir}/gio \
               ${libexecdir}/*gio-querymodules \
               ${datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas"
-FILES_${PN}-utils += "${bindir}/glib-genmarshal \
+FILES:${PN}-utils += "${bindir}/glib-genmarshal \
                      ${bindir}/glib-gettextize \
                      ${bindir}/glib-mkenums \
                      ${bindir}/glib-compile-resources"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/glib-2.0/include \
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/glib-2.0/include \
                    ${libdir}/gio/modules/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} \
                    ${libdir}/gio/modules/*.la \
                    ${datadir}/glib-2.0/gettext/po/Makefile.in.in \
                    ${datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas/gschema.dtd \
                    ${datadir}/glib-2.0/valgrind/glib.supp \
                    ${datadir}/gettext/its"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${datadir}/glib-2.0/gdb ${datadir}/gdb"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${datadir}/glib-2.0/gdb ${datadir}/gdb"
-FILES_${PN}-codegen = "${datadir}/glib-2.0/codegen/*.py \
+FILES:${PN}-codegen = "${datadir}/glib-2.0/codegen/*.py \
                       ${bindir}/gdbus-codegen"
-FILES_${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/*"
 SHAREDMIMEDEP = "shared-mime-info"
-SHAREDMIMEDEP_class-native = ""
+SHAREDMIMEDEP:class-native = ""
 # When cross compiling for Windows we don't want to include this
-SHAREDMIMEDEP_mingw32 = ""
+SHAREDMIMEDEP:mingw32 = ""
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "${SHAREDMIMEDEP}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "${SHAREDMIMEDEP}"
-ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv4 = "arm"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET:armv4 = "arm"
-ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv5 = "arm"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET:armv5 = "arm"
 # Valgrind runtime detection works using hand-written assembly, which
 # doesn't support mips16e
-CPPFLAGS_append_class-target_mips16e = " -DNVALGRIND=1"
+CPPFLAGS:append:class-target:mips16e = " -DNVALGRIND=1"
 # GLib generally requires gettext to be present so for USE_NLS to yes.  For
 # native builds as i18n is disabled globally we have to add a gettext-native dependency.
-USE_NLS_class-target = "yes"
+USE_NLS:class-target = "yes"
-USE_NLS_class-nativesdk = "yes"
+USE_NLS:class-nativesdk = "yes"
-DEPENDS_append_class-native = " gettext-native"
+DEPENDS:append:class-native = " gettext-native"
 EXEEXT = ""
-EXEEXT_mingw32 = ".exe"
+EXEEXT:mingw32 = ".exe"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        if [ -f ${D}${bindir}/gtester-report ]; then
                sed ${D}${bindir}/gtester-report -i -e '1s|^#!.*|#!/usr/bin/env python3|'
        fi
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ do_install_append () {
        mkdir -p ${D}${libdir}/gio/modules
 }
-do_install_append_class-target () {
+do_install:append:class-target () {
        # Tests are only installed on targets, not native builds.  Separating this out
        # keeps glib-2.0-native from depending on DISTRO_FEATURES
        if [ -f ${D}${datadir}/installed-tests/glib/gdbus-serialization.test ]; then
@@ -134,18 +134,18 @@ do_install_append_class-target () {
 }
 # As we do not build python3 for windows, makes no sense to ship the script that's using it
-do_install_append_mingw32() {
+do_install:append:mingw32() {
        rm -f ${D}${bindir}/gtester-report
 }
 CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS = "python3 python3-distutils python3-xml"
-CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS_mingw32 = ""
+CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS:mingw32 = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-codegen += "${CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-codegen += "${CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "${PN}-utils"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "${PN}-utils"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "\
            coreutils \
            libgcc \
            dbus \
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "\
            ${PN}-codegen \
           "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = "\
            glibc-gconv-utf-16 \
            glibc-charmap-utf-8 \
            glibc-gconv-cp1255 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.68.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.68.1.bb
index fac04087d1..9a8ff38dbd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.68.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.68.1.bb
@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ inherit gnomebase gettext upstream-version-is-even gio-module-cache ptest-gnome
 SRC_URI += "file://run-ptest"
-FILES_${PN} += "\
+FILES:${PN} += "\
                ${libdir}/gio/modules/libgio*.so \
                ${datadir}/dbus-1/services/ \
                ${systemd_user_unitdir} \
                "
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/gio/modules/libgio*.la"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/gio/modules/libgio*.la"
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/gio/modules/libgio*.a"
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/gio/modules/libgio*.a"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "bash"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-common.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-common.inc
index 41ff7e9a19..782b2605cc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-common.inc
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ CVE_PRODUCT = "glibc"
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
-ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv4 = "arm"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET:armv4 = "arm"
-ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv5 = "arm"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET:armv5 = "arm"
-ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv6 = "arm"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET:armv6 = "arm"
 #
 # We will skip parsing glibc when target system C library selection is not glibc
 # this helps in easing out parsing for non-glibc system libraries
 #
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_libc-musl_class-target = "null"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl:class-target = "null"
 PV = "2.33"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-ld.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-ld.inc
index 041ffbb9cb..da8fcc430b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-ld.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-ld.inc
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ def glibc_dl_info(d):
 EGLIBC_KNOWN_INTERPRETER_NAMES = "${@glibc_dl_info(d)['ldconfig']}"
 RTLDLIST = "${@glibc_dl_info(d)['lddrewrite']}"
-RTLDLIST_class-nativesdk = "${base_libdir}/${@bb.utils.contains('SDK_ARCH', 'x86_64', 'ld-linux-x86-64.so.2', 'ld-linux.so.2', d)}"
+RTLDLIST:class-nativesdk = "${base_libdir}/${@bb.utils.contains('SDK_ARCH', 'x86_64', 'ld-linux-x86-64.so.2', 'ld-linux.so.2', d)}"
 glibc_dl_info[vardepsexclude] = "OVERRIDES"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-locale.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-locale.inc
index ef06389ff9..b8de7d3192 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-locale.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-locale.inc
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LOCALEBASEPN = "${MLPREFIX}glibc"
 # ERROR: objcopy failed with exit code 127 (cmd was 'i586-webos-linux-objcopy' --only-keep-debug 'glibc-locale/2.17-r0/package/usr/lib/gconv/IBM1166.so' 'glibc-locale/2.17-r0/package/usr/lib/gconv/.debug/IBM1166.so')
 # ERROR: Function failed: split_and_strip_files
 BINUTILSDEP = "virtual/${MLPREFIX}${TARGET_PREFIX}binutils:do_populate_sysroot"
-BINUTILSDEP_class-nativesdk = "virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}binutils-crosssdk:do_populate_sysroot"
+BINUTILSDEP:class-nativesdk = "virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}binutils-crosssdk:do_populate_sysroot"
 do_package[depends] += "${BINUTILSDEP}"
 DEPENDS += "virtual/libc"
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ DEPENDS += "virtual/libc"
 # default to disabled
 ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION ?= "0"
-ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION_pn-nativesdk-glibc-locale = "1"
+ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION:pn-nativesdk-glibc-locale = "1"
 #enable locale generation on these arches
 # BINARY_LOCALE_ARCHES is a space separated list of regular expressions
@@ -40,32 +40,32 @@ PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "^locale-base-.* \
                    ^${MLPREFIX}glibc-gconv$"
 # Create a glibc-binaries package
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${BPN}-binaries = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${BPN}-binaries = "1"
 PACKAGES += "${BPN}-binaries"
-RRECOMMENDS_${BPN}-binaries =  "${@" ".join([p for p in d.getVar('PACKAGES').split() if p.find("glibc-binary") != -1])}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${BPN}-binaries =  "${@" ".join([p for p in d.getVar('PACKAGES').split() if p.find("glibc-binary") != -1])}"
 # Create a glibc-charmaps package
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${BPN}-charmaps = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${BPN}-charmaps = "1"
 PACKAGES += "${BPN}-charmaps"
-RRECOMMENDS_${BPN}-charmaps =  "${@" ".join([p for p in d.getVar('PACKAGES').split() if p.find("glibc-charmap") != -1])}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${BPN}-charmaps =  "${@" ".join([p for p in d.getVar('PACKAGES').split() if p.find("glibc-charmap") != -1])}"
 # Create a glibc-gconvs package
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${BPN}-gconvs = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${BPN}-gconvs = "1"
 PACKAGES += "${BPN}-gconvs"
-RRECOMMENDS_${BPN}-gconvs =  "${@" ".join([p for p in d.getVar('PACKAGES').split() if p.find("glibc-gconv") != -1])}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${BPN}-gconvs =  "${@" ".join([p for p in d.getVar('PACKAGES').split() if p.find("glibc-gconv") != -1])}"
 # Create a glibc-localedatas package
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${BPN}-localedatas = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${BPN}-localedatas = "1"
 PACKAGES += "${BPN}-localedatas"
-RRECOMMENDS_${BPN}-localedatas =  "${@" ".join([p for p in d.getVar('PACKAGES').split() if p.find("glibc-localedata") != -1])}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${BPN}-localedatas =  "${@" ".join([p for p in d.getVar('PACKAGES').split() if p.find("glibc-localedata") != -1])}"
-DESCRIPTION_localedef = "glibc: compile locale definition files"
+DESCRIPTION:localedef = "glibc: compile locale definition files"
 # glibc-gconv is dynamically added into PACKAGES, thus
-# FILES_glibc-gconv will not be automatically extended in multilib.
+# FILES:glibc-gconv will not be automatically extended in multilib.
-# Explicitly add ${MLPREFIX} for FILES_glibc-gconv.
+# Explicitly add ${MLPREFIX} for FILES:glibc-gconv.
-FILES_${MLPREFIX}glibc-gconv = "${libdir}/gconv/*"
+FILES:${MLPREFIX}glibc-gconv = "${libdir}/gconv/*"
-FILES_localedef = "${bindir}/localedef"
+FILES:localedef = "${bindir}/localedef"
 LOCALETREESRC = "${COMPONENTS_DIR}/${PACKAGE_ARCH}/glibc-stash-locale"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-mtrace.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-mtrace.inc
index ef9d60ec23..734a566562 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-mtrace.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-mtrace.inc
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ require glibc-collateral.inc
 SUMMARY = "mtrace utility provided by glibc"
 DESCRIPTION = "mtrace utility provided by glibc"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "perl"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = "libc-mtrace"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "libc-mtrace"
 SRC = "${COMPONENTS_DIR}/${PACKAGE_ARCH}/glibc-stash-locale/scripts"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
index 92e5dbac61..4bf5038fc0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
@@ -3,67 +3,67 @@ INHIBIT_SYSROOT_STRIP = "1"
 PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg catchsegv sln nscd ldconfig ldd tzcode glibc-thread-db ${PN}-pic libcidn libmemusage libnss-db libsegfault ${PN}-pcprofile libsotruss ${PN} ${PN}-utils glibc-extra-nss ${PN}-dev ${PN}-staticdev ${PN}-doc ${PN}-src"
 # The ld.so in this glibc supports the GNU_HASH
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = "eglibc rtld(GNU_HASH)"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "eglibc rtld(GNU_HASH)"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-utils = "eglibc-utils"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-utils = "eglibc-utils"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-mtrace = "eglibc-mtrace libc-mtrace"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-mtrace = "eglibc-mtrace libc-mtrace"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-pic = "eglibc-pic"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-pic = "eglibc-pic"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-dev = "eglibc-dev libc6-dev virtual-libc-dev"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-dev = "eglibc-dev libc6-dev virtual-libc-dev"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-staticdev = "eglibc-staticdev"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-staticdev = "eglibc-staticdev"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-doc = "eglibc-doc"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-doc = "eglibc-doc"
-RPROVIDES_glibc-extra-nss = "eglibc-extra-nss"
+RPROVIDES:glibc-extra-nss = "eglibc-extra-nss"
-RPROVIDES_glibc-thread-db = "eglibc-thread-db"
+RPROVIDES:glibc-thread-db = "eglibc-thread-db"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-pcprofile = "eglibc-pcprofile"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-pcprofile = "eglibc-pcprofile"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-dbg = "eglibc-dbg"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-dbg = "eglibc-dbg"
 libc_baselibs = "${base_libdir}/libc.so.* ${base_libdir}/libc-*.so ${base_libdir}/libm*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libm-*.so ${base_libdir}/libmvec-*.so ${base_libdir}/ld*.so.* ${base_libdir}/ld-*.so ${base_libdir}/libpthread*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libpthread-*.so ${base_libdir}/libresolv*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libresolv-*.so ${base_libdir}/librt*.so.* ${base_libdir}/librt-*.so ${base_libdir}/libutil*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libutil-*.so ${base_libdir}/libnsl*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libnsl-*.so ${base_libdir}/libnss_files*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libnss_files-*.so ${base_libdir}/libnss_compat*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libnss_compat-*.so ${base_libdir}/libnss_dns*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libnss_dns-*.so ${base_libdir}/libdl*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libdl-*.so ${base_libdir}/libanl*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libanl-*.so ${base_libdir}/libBrokenLocale*.so.* ${base_libdir}/libBrokenLocale-*.so"
 ARCH_DYNAMIC_LOADER = ""
 # The aarch64 ABI says the dynamic linker -must- be
 # /lib/ld-linux-aarch64{,_be}.so.1. With usrmerge, that may mean that
 # we need to install it in /usr/lib.
-ARCH_DYNAMIC_LOADER_aarch64 = "ld-linux-${TARGET_ARCH}.so.1"
+ARCH_DYNAMIC_LOADER:aarch64 = "ld-linux-${TARGET_ARCH}.so.1"
-libc_baselibs_append = " ${@oe.utils.conditional('ARCH_DYNAMIC_LOADER', '', '', '${root_prefix}/lib/${ARCH_DYNAMIC_LOADER}', d)}"
+libc_baselibs:append = " ${@oe.utils.conditional('ARCH_DYNAMIC_LOADER', '', '', '${root_prefix}/lib/${ARCH_DYNAMIC_LOADER}', d)}"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}_append_aarch64 = " libdir"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}:append:aarch64 = " libdir"
-FILES_${PN} = "${libc_baselibs} ${libexecdir}/* ${sysconfdir}/ld.so.conf"
+FILES:${PN} = "${libc_baselibs} ${libexecdir}/* ${sysconfdir}/ld.so.conf"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ldconfig', '${MLPREFIX}ldconfig', '', d)}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ldconfig', '${MLPREFIX}ldconfig', '', d)}"
-FILES_ldconfig = "${base_sbindir}/ldconfig"
+FILES:ldconfig = "${base_sbindir}/ldconfig"
-FILES_ldd = "${bindir}/ldd"
+FILES:ldd = "${bindir}/ldd"
-FILES_libsegfault = "${base_libdir}/libSegFault*"
+FILES:libsegfault = "${base_libdir}/libSegFault*"
-FILES_libcidn = "${base_libdir}/libcidn-*.so ${base_libdir}/libcidn.so.*"
+FILES:libcidn = "${base_libdir}/libcidn-*.so ${base_libdir}/libcidn.so.*"
-FILES_libmemusage = "${base_libdir}/libmemusage.so"
+FILES:libmemusage = "${base_libdir}/libmemusage.so"
-FILES_libnss-db = "${base_libdir}/libnss_db.so.* ${base_libdir}/libnss_db-*.so ${localstatedir}/db/Makefile ${localstatedir}/db/makedbs.sh"
+FILES:libnss-db = "${base_libdir}/libnss_db.so.* ${base_libdir}/libnss_db-*.so ${localstatedir}/db/Makefile ${localstatedir}/db/makedbs.sh"
-RDEPENDS_libnss-db = "${PN}-utils"
+RDEPENDS:libnss-db = "${PN}-utils"
-FILES_glibc-extra-nss = "${base_libdir}/libnss_*-*.so ${base_libdir}/libnss_*.so.*"
+FILES:glibc-extra-nss = "${base_libdir}/libnss_*-*.so ${base_libdir}/libnss_*.so.*"
-FILES_sln = "${base_sbindir}/sln"
+FILES:sln = "${base_sbindir}/sln"
-FILES_${PN}-pic = "${libdir}/*_pic.a ${libdir}/*_pic.map ${libdir}/libc_pic/*.o"
+FILES:${PN}-pic = "${libdir}/*_pic.a ${libdir}/*_pic.map ${libdir}/libc_pic/*.o"
-FILES_libsotruss = "${libdir}/audit/sotruss-lib.so"
+FILES:libsotruss = "${libdir}/audit/sotruss-lib.so"
 FILES_SOLIBSDEV = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV}"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/*_nonshared.a ${base_libdir}/*_nonshared.a ${base_libdir}/*.o ${datadir}/aclocal"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/*_nonshared.a ${base_libdir}/*_nonshared.a ${base_libdir}/*.o ${datadir}/aclocal"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = "linux-libc-headers-dev"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = "linux-libc-headers-dev"
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/*.a ${base_libdir}/*.a"
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/*.a ${base_libdir}/*.a"
-FILES_nscd = "${sbindir}/nscd* ${sysconfdir}/init.d/nscd ${systemd_unitdir}/system/nscd* ${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/nscd.conf \
+FILES:nscd = "${sbindir}/nscd* ${sysconfdir}/init.d/nscd ${systemd_unitdir}/system/nscd* ${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/nscd.conf \
              ${sysconfdir}/nscd.conf ${sysconfdir}/default/volatiles/98_nscd ${localstatedir}/db/nscd"
-FILES_${PN}-mtrace = "${bindir}/mtrace"
+FILES:${PN}-mtrace = "${bindir}/mtrace"
-FILES_tzcode = "${bindir}/tzselect ${sbindir}/zic ${bindir}/zdump"
+FILES:tzcode = "${bindir}/tzselect ${sbindir}/zic ${bindir}/zdump"
-FILES_${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/* ${sbindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/* ${sbindir}/*"
-FILES_catchsegv = "${bindir}/catchsegv"
+FILES:catchsegv = "${bindir}/catchsegv"
-RDEPENDS_catchsegv = "libsegfault"
+RDEPENDS:catchsegv = "libsegfault"
-FILES_${PN}-pcprofile = "${base_libdir}/libpcprofile.so"
+FILES:${PN}-pcprofile = "${base_libdir}/libpcprofile.so"
-FILES_glibc-thread-db = "${base_libdir}/libthread_db.so.* ${base_libdir}/libthread_db-*.so"
+FILES:glibc-thread-db = "${base_libdir}/libthread_db.so.* ${base_libdir}/libthread_db-*.so"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-dev += "libc-dev"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-dev += "libc-dev"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-staticdev += "libc-staticdev"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-staticdev += "libc-staticdev"
-SUMMARY_sln = "The static ln"
+SUMMARY:sln = "The static ln"
-DESCRIPTION_sln = "Similar to the 'ln' utility, but statically linked.  sln is useful to make symbolic links to dynamic libraries if the dynamic linking system, for some reason, is not functional."
+DESCRIPTION:sln = "Similar to the 'ln' utility, but statically linked.  sln is useful to make symbolic links to dynamic libraries if the dynamic linking system, for some reason, is not functional."
-SUMMARY_nscd = "Name service cache daemon"
+SUMMARY:nscd = "Name service cache daemon"
-DESCRIPTION_nscd = "nscd, name service cache daemon, caches name service lookups for the passwd, group and hosts information.  It can damatically improvide performance with remote, such as NIS or NIS+, name services."
+DESCRIPTION:nscd = "nscd, name service cache daemon, caches name service lookups for the passwd, group and hosts information.  It can damatically improvide performance with remote, such as NIS or NIS+, name services."
-SUMMARY_glibc-extra-nss = "hesiod, NIS and NIS+ nss libraries"
+SUMMARY:glibc-extra-nss = "hesiod, NIS and NIS+ nss libraries"
-DESCRIPTION_glibc-extra-nss = "glibc: nis, nisplus and hesiod search services."
+DESCRIPTION:glibc-extra-nss = "glibc: nis, nisplus and hesiod search services."
-SUMMARY_ldd = "print shared library dependencies"
+SUMMARY:ldd = "print shared library dependencies"
-DESCRIPTION_ldd = "${bindir}/ldd prints shared library dependencies for each program or shared library specified on the command line."
+DESCRIPTION:ldd = "${bindir}/ldd prints shared library dependencies for each program or shared library specified on the command line."
-SUMMARY_${PN}-utils = "Miscellaneous utilities provided by glibc"
+SUMMARY:${PN}-utils = "Miscellaneous utilities provided by glibc"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-utils = "Miscellaneous utilities including getconf, iconv, locale, gencat, ..."
+DESCRIPTION:${PN}-utils = "Miscellaneous utilities including getconf, iconv, locale, gencat, ..."
-DESCRIPTION_libsotruss = "Library to support sotruss which traces calls through PLTs"
+DESCRIPTION:libsotruss = "Library to support sotruss which traces calls through PLTs"
-DESCRIPTION_tzcode = "tzcode, timezone zoneinfo utils -- zic, zdump, tzselect"
+DESCRIPTION:tzcode = "tzcode, timezone zoneinfo utils -- zic, zdump, tzselect"
 inherit multilib_header
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ def get_libc_fpu_setting(bb, d):
        return "--without-fp"
    return ""
-do_install_append_class-target() {
+do_install:append:class-target() {
        if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
                install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d
                echo "d /run/nscd 755 root root -" \
@@ -139,15 +139,15 @@ do_install_append_class-target() {
        fi
 }
-do_install_append_aarch64 () {
+do_install:append:aarch64 () {
        do_install_armmultilib
 }
-do_install_append_arm () {
+do_install:append:arm () {
        do_install_armmultilib
 }
-do_install_append_armeb () {
+do_install:append:armeb () {
        do_install_armmultilib
 }
@@ -252,26 +252,26 @@ stash_locale_package_cleanup() {
        stash_locale_cleanup ${PKGD}
 }
-python populate_packages_prepend () {
+python populate_packages:prepend () {
    if d.getVar('DEBIAN_NAMES'):
        pkgs = d.getVar('PACKAGES').split()
        bpn = d.getVar('BPN')
        prefix = d.getVar('MLPREFIX') or ""
        # Set the base package...
-        d.setVar('PKG_' + prefix + bpn, prefix + 'libc6')
+        d.setVar('PKG:' + prefix + bpn, prefix + 'libc6')
        libcprefix = prefix + bpn + '-'
        for p in pkgs:
            # And all the subpackages.
            if p.startswith(libcprefix):
                renamed = p.replace(bpn, 'libc6', 1)
-                d.setVar('PKG_' + p, renamed)
+                d.setVar('PKG:' + p, renamed)
        # For backward compatibility with old -dbg package
-        d.appendVar('RPROVIDES_' + libcprefix + 'dbg', ' ' + prefix + 'libc-dbg')
+        d.appendVar('RPROVIDES:' + libcprefix + 'dbg', ' ' + prefix + 'libc-dbg')
-        d.appendVar('RCONFLICTS_' + libcprefix + 'dbg', ' ' + prefix + 'libc-dbg')
+        d.appendVar('RCONFLICTS:' + libcprefix + 'dbg', ' ' + prefix + 'libc-dbg')
-        d.appendVar('RREPLACES_' + libcprefix + 'dbg', ' ' + prefix + 'libc-dbg')
+        d.appendVar('RREPLACES:' + libcprefix + 'dbg', ' ' + prefix + 'libc-dbg')
 }
-pkg_postinst_nscd () {
+pkg_postinst:nscd () {
        if [ -z "$D" ]; then
                if command -v systemd-tmpfiles >/dev/null; then
                        systemd-tmpfiles --create ${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/nscd.conf
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ pkg_postinst_nscd () {
                fi
        fi
 }
-CONFFILES_nscd="${sysconfdir}/nscd.conf"
+CONFFILES:nscd="${sysconfdir}/nscd.conf"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "nscd"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_nscd = "nscd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:nscd = "nscd.service"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-scripts.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-scripts.inc
index 14a14e4512..47216ae7d7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-scripts.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-scripts.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require glibc-collateral.inc
 SUMMARY = "utility scripts provided by glibc"
 DESCRIPTION = "utility scripts provided by glibc"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash glibc-mtrace"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "bash glibc-mtrace"
 SRC = "${COMPONENTS_DIR}/${PACKAGE_ARCH}/glibc-stash-locale/scripts"
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ do_install() {
 # sotruss script requires sotruss-lib.so (given by libsotruss package), 
 # to produce trace of the library calls.
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libsotruss"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libsotruss"
 # Don't scan for CVEs as glibc will be scanned
 CVE_PRODUCT = ""
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-testsuite_2.33.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-testsuite_2.33.bb
index 659d3132fa..72aa332171 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-testsuite_2.33.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-testsuite_2.33.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ require glibc_${PV}.bb
 EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"
 # handle PN differences
-FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/glibc:"
+FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/glibc:"
 # strip provides
 PROVIDES = ""
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ python () {
 DEPENDS += "glibc-locale libgcc gcc-runtime"
 # remove the initial depends
-DEPENDS_remove = "libgcc-initial"
+DEPENDS:remove = "libgcc-initial"
 inherit qemu
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
index 7d14306377..04e6db99b9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc.inc
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += " \
 "
 # ifunc doesn't appear to work on mips, casuses libbfd assertion failures
-CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS_append_mipsarch = " libc_cv_ld_gnu_indirect_function=no"
+CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS:append:mipsarch = " libc_cv_ld_gnu_indirect_function=no"
 GLIBC_EXTRA_OECONF ?= ""
-GLIBC_EXTRA_OECONF_class-nativesdk = ""
+GLIBC_EXTRA_OECONF:class-nativesdk = ""
 # glibc uses PARALLELMFLAGS variable to pass parallel build info so transfer
 # PARALLEL_MAKE into PARALLELMFLAGS and empty out PARALLEL_MAKE
@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
 # ensure make uses /bin/bash
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += "SHELL=/bin/bash"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
        sed -e "s#@BASH@#/bin/sh#" -i ${S}/elf/ldd.bash.in
 }
 # Enable backtrace from abort()
-do_configure_append_arm () {
+do_configure:append:arm () {
        echo "CFLAGS-abort.c = -fasynchronous-unwind-tables" >> ${B}/configparms
        echo "CFLAGS-raise.c = -fasynchronous-unwind-tables" >> ${B}/configparms
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.33.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.33.bb
index e9f01a14c5..67eb3f04bb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.33.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.33.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2019-1010025"
 DEPENDS += "gperf-native bison-native make-native"
 NATIVESDKFIXES ?= ""
-NATIVESDKFIXES_class-nativesdk = "\
+NATIVESDKFIXES:class-nativesdk = "\
           file://0003-nativesdk-glibc-Look-for-host-system-ld.so.cache-as-.patch \
           file://0004-nativesdk-glibc-Fix-buffer-overrun-with-a-relocated-.patch \
           file://0005-nativesdk-glibc-Raise-the-size-of-arrays-containing-.patch \
@@ -90,14 +90,14 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-kernel=${OLDEST_KERNEL} \
 EXTRA_OECONF += "${@get_libc_fpu_setting(bb, d)}"
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_x86 = " --enable-cet"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:x86 = " --enable-cet"
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_x86-64 = " --enable-cet"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:x86-64 = " --enable-cet"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "nscd memory-tagging"
 PACKAGECONFIG[nscd] = "--enable-nscd,--disable-nscd"
 PACKAGECONFIG[memory-tagging] = "--enable-memory-tagging,--disable-memory-tagging"
-do_patch_append() {
+do_patch:append() {
    bb.build.exec_func('do_fix_readlib_c', d)
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.36.bb b/meta/recipes-core/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.36.bb
index 0daf50acab..1d01701b8f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.36.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.36.bb
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ do_install_ptest () {
 }
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "ifup ifdown"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "ifup ifdown"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[ifup] = "${base_sbindir}/ifup"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[ifdown] = "${base_sbindir}/ifdown"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
index 1176311ff9..17e06a0569 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky \
 RECIPE_NO_UPDATE_REASON = "Recipe is recursive and handled as part of the release process"
 BA_INCLUDE_SOURCES ??= "0"
-IMAGE_CMD_ext4_append () {
+IMAGE_CMD:ext4:append () {
        # We don't need to reserve much space for root, 0.5% is more than enough
        tune2fs -m 0.5 ${IMGDEPLOYDIR}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext4
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb
index 19f27f8395..84343adcd8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
 inherit core-image
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE ?= "8192"
-IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE_append = "${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "systemd", " + 4096", "", d)}"
+IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE:append = "${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "systemd", " + 4096", "", d)}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown_1.0.bb
index b6fc8a4d41..741da324d0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown_1.0.bb
@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ do_install () {
        install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/nfsroot ${D}${sysconfdir}/network/if-pre-up.d
 }
-do_install_append_qemuall () {
+do_install:append:qemuall () {
        # Disable network manager on machines that commonly do NFS booting
        touch ${D}${sysconfdir}/network/nm-disabled-eth0
 }
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "netbase"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "netbase"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "netbase (< 1:5.0)"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "netbase (< 1:5.0)"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/network/interfaces"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/network/interfaces"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-boot_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-boot_1.0.bb
index 29ec5ec2ff..ab460ac797 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-boot_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-boot_1.0.bb
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ do_install() {
 inherit allarch
-FILES_${PN} += "/init /dev/console"
+FILES:${PN} += "/init /dev/console"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework_1.0.bb
index fe24215b46..9e8c1dc3ab 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework_1.0.bb
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 SUMMARY = "Modular initramfs system"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog}"
 PR = "r4"
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ PACKAGES = "${PN}-base \
            initramfs-module-lvm \
           "
-FILES_${PN}-base = "/init /init.d/99-finish /dev"
+FILES:${PN}-base = "/init /init.d/99-finish /dev"
 # 99-finish in base depends on some other module which mounts
 # the rootfs, like 90-rootfs. To replace that default, use
@@ -74,36 +74,36 @@ FILES_${PN}-base = "/init /init.d/99-finish /dev"
 # initramfs recipe and install something else, or install
 # something that runs earlier (for example, a 89-my-rootfs)
 # and mounts the rootfs. Then 90-rootfs will proceed immediately.
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-base += "initramfs-module-rootfs"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-base += "initramfs-module-rootfs"
-SUMMARY_initramfs-module-exec = "initramfs support for easy execution of applications"
+SUMMARY:initramfs-module-exec = "initramfs support for easy execution of applications"
-RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-exec = "${PN}-base"
+RDEPENDS:initramfs-module-exec = "${PN}-base"
-FILES_initramfs-module-exec = "/init.d/89-exec"
+FILES:initramfs-module-exec = "/init.d/89-exec"
-SUMMARY_initramfs-module-mdev = "initramfs support for mdev"
+SUMMARY:initramfs-module-mdev = "initramfs support for mdev"
-RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-mdev = "${PN}-base busybox-mdev"
+RDEPENDS:initramfs-module-mdev = "${PN}-base busybox-mdev"
-FILES_initramfs-module-mdev = "/init.d/01-mdev"
+FILES:initramfs-module-mdev = "/init.d/01-mdev"
-SUMMARY_initramfs-module-udev = "initramfs support for udev"
+SUMMARY:initramfs-module-udev = "initramfs support for udev"
-RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-udev = "${PN}-base udev"
+RDEPENDS:initramfs-module-udev = "${PN}-base udev"
-FILES_initramfs-module-udev = "/init.d/01-udev"
+FILES:initramfs-module-udev = "/init.d/01-udev"
-SUMMARY_initramfs-module-e2fs = "initramfs support for ext4/ext3/ext2 filesystems"
+SUMMARY:initramfs-module-e2fs = "initramfs support for ext4/ext3/ext2 filesystems"
-RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-e2fs = "${PN}-base"
+RDEPENDS:initramfs-module-e2fs = "${PN}-base"
-FILES_initramfs-module-e2fs = "/init.d/10-e2fs"
+FILES:initramfs-module-e2fs = "/init.d/10-e2fs"
-SUMMARY_initramfs-module-nfsrootfs = "initramfs support for locating and mounting the root partition via nfs"
+SUMMARY:initramfs-module-nfsrootfs = "initramfs support for locating and mounting the root partition via nfs"
-RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-nfsrootfs = "${PN}-base"
+RDEPENDS:initramfs-module-nfsrootfs = "${PN}-base"
-FILES_initramfs-module-nfsrootfs = "/init.d/85-nfsrootfs"
+FILES:initramfs-module-nfsrootfs = "/init.d/85-nfsrootfs"
-SUMMARY_initramfs-module-rootfs = "initramfs support for locating and mounting the root partition"
+SUMMARY:initramfs-module-rootfs = "initramfs support for locating and mounting the root partition"
-RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-rootfs = "${PN}-base"
+RDEPENDS:initramfs-module-rootfs = "${PN}-base"
-FILES_initramfs-module-rootfs = "/init.d/90-rootfs"
+FILES:initramfs-module-rootfs = "/init.d/90-rootfs"
-SUMMARY_initramfs-module-debug = "initramfs dynamic debug support"
+SUMMARY:initramfs-module-debug = "initramfs dynamic debug support"
-RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-debug = "${PN}-base"
+RDEPENDS:initramfs-module-debug = "${PN}-base"
-FILES_initramfs-module-debug = "/init.d/00-debug"
+FILES:initramfs-module-debug = "/init.d/00-debug"
-SUMMARY_initramfs-module-lvm = "initramfs lvm rootfs support"
+SUMMARY:initramfs-module-lvm = "initramfs lvm rootfs support"
-RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-lvm = "${PN}-base"
+RDEPENDS:initramfs-module-lvm = "${PN}-base"
-FILES_initramfs-module-lvm = "/init.d/09-lvm"
+FILES:initramfs-module-lvm = "/init.d/09-lvm"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot-tiny_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot-tiny_1.0.bb
index 7a9a8ecae2..59a530506a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot-tiny_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot-tiny_1.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Live image init script"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/kernel"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "busybox-mdev"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "busybox-mdev"
 SRC_URI = "file://init-live.sh"
 PR = "r12"
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ do_install() {
        mknod -m 622 ${D}/dev/console c 5 1
 }
-FILES_${PN} += " /init /dev "
+FILES:${PN} += " /init /dev "
 # Due to kernel dependency
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot_1.0.bb
index 57b30254a6..8f56d7ab90 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot_1.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Live image init script"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/kernel"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "udev udev-extraconf"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "udev udev-extraconf"
 SRC_URI = "file://init-live.sh"
 PR = "r12"
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ do_install() {
        mknod -m 622 ${D}/dev/console c 5 1
 }
-FILES_${PN} += " /init /dev "
+FILES:${PN} += " /init /dev "
 # Due to kernel dependency
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi-testfs_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi-testfs_1.0.bb
index c03bd2d765..495eccbeda 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi-testfs_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi-testfs_1.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 SRC_URI = "file://init-install-efi-testfs.sh"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs dosfstools"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs dosfstools"
 S = "${WORKDIR}"
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ do_install() {
 }
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
-FILES_${PN} = " /install-efi.sh "
+FILES:${PN} = " /install-efi.sh "
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86|x86_64).*-linux"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi_1.0.bb
index cc842ae8b7..ecbd567d6c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi_1.0.bb
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ SRC_URI = "file://init-install-efi.sh"
 PR = "r1"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs dosfstools util-linux-blkid ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs dosfstools util-linux-blkid ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog}"
 S = "${WORKDIR}"
@@ -20,6 +20,6 @@ do_install() {
 #inherit allarch
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
-FILES_${PN} = " /install-efi.sh "
+FILES:${PN} = " /install-efi.sh "
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86.*|x86_64.*|aarch64.*)-linux"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-testfs_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-testfs_1.0.bb
index 937bfd4d38..d347e323b3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-testfs_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-testfs_1.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 SRC_URI = "file://init-install-testfs.sh"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "grub parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "grub parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs"
 S = "${WORKDIR}"
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ do_install() {
 }
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
-FILES_${PN} = " /install.sh "
+FILES:${PN} = " /install.sh "
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86|x86_64).*-linux"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install_1.0.bb
index 48fc0c4a76..674d49ecdf 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install_1.0.bb
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ PR = "r9"
 S = "${WORKDIR}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "grub parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs util-linux-blkid ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "grub parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs util-linux-blkid ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog}"
 do_install() {
        install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/init-install.sh ${D}/install.sh
@@ -20,6 +20,6 @@ do_install() {
 #inherit allarch
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
-FILES_${PN} = " /install.sh "
+FILES:${PN} = " /install.sh "
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86.*|x86_64.*|aarch64.*)-linux"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-install-efi_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-install-efi_1.0.bb
index 523138cff3..fb19484555 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-install-efi_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-install-efi_1.0.bb
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 SUMMARY = "initramfs-framework module for EFI installation option"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "initramfs-framework-base parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs dosfstools util-linux-blkid ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "initramfs-framework-base parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs dosfstools util-linux-blkid ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog}"
 PR = "r4"
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ do_install() {
    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/init-install-efi.sh ${D}/init.d/install-efi.sh
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "/init.d/install-efi.sh"
+FILES:${PN} = "/init.d/install-efi.sh"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-install_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-install_1.0.bb
index 56898e824f..4d48d54e9e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-install_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-install_1.0.bb
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 SUMMARY = "initramfs-framework module for installation option"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "initramfs-framework-base grub parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs util-linux-blkid ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "initramfs-framework-base grub parted e2fsprogs-mke2fs util-linux-blkid ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog}"
 # The same restriction as grub
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = '(x86_64.*|i.86.*|arm.*|aarch64.*)-(linux.*|freebsd.*)'
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_armv7a = 'null'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:armv7a = 'null'
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_armv7ve = 'null'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:armv7ve = 'null'
 PR = "r1"
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ do_install() {
    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/init-install.sh ${D}/init.d/install.sh
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "/init.d/install.sh"
+FILES:${PN} = "/init.d/install.sh"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-setup-live_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-setup-live_1.0.bb
index 4d2fe9dd2b..d8ce024b83 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-setup-live_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-module-setup-live_1.0.bb
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 SUMMARY = "initramfs-framework module for live booting"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "initramfs-framework-base udev-extraconf"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "initramfs-framework-base udev-extraconf"
 PR = "r4"
 inherit allarch
-FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/initramfs-framework:"
+FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/initramfs-framework:"
 SRC_URI = "file://setup-live"
 S = "${WORKDIR}"
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ do_install() {
    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/setup-live ${D}/init.d/80-setup-live
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "/init.d/80-setup-live"
+FILES:${PN} = "/init.d/80-setup-live"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/init-system-helpers_1.60.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/init-system-helpers_1.60.bb
index 33977e66c1..165f37c070 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/init-system-helpers_1.60.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/init-system-helpers_1.60.bb
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ do_install() {
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-invoke-rc.d ${PN}-service"
-FILES_${PN} = ""
+FILES:${PN} = ""
-FILES_${PN}-invoke-rc.d = "${sbindir}/invoke-rc.d"
+FILES:${PN}-invoke-rc.d = "${sbindir}/invoke-rc.d"
-FILES_${PN}-service = "${sbindir}/service"
+FILES:${PN}-service = "${sbindir}/service"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-invoke-rc.d ${PN}-service"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "${PN}-invoke-rc.d ${PN}-service"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
index 65f9c0ae8d..e4c4813220 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
@@ -39,25 +39,25 @@ SRC_URI = "file://functions \
 S = "${WORKDIR}"
-SRC_URI_append_arm = " file://alignment.sh"
+SRC_URI:append:arm = " file://alignment.sh"
-SRC_URI_append_armeb = " file://alignment.sh"
+SRC_URI:append:armeb = " file://alignment.sh"
 KERNEL_VERSION = ""
-DEPENDS_append = " update-rc.d-native"
+DEPENDS:append = " update-rc.d-native"
-PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS_append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','systemd-systemctl-native','',d)}"
+PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS:append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','systemd-systemctl-native','',d)}"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-functions ${PN}-sushell"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "initd-functions \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "initd-functions \
                  ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','selinux','${PN}-sushell','',d)} \
                  init-system-helpers-service \
                 "
 # Recommend pn-functions so that it will be a preferred default provider for initd-functions
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${PN}-functions"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${PN}-functions"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-functions = "initd-functions"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-functions = "initd-functions"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN}-functions = "lsbinitscripts"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN}-functions = "lsbinitscripts"
-FILES_${PN}-functions = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/functions*"
+FILES:${PN}-functions = "${sysconfdir}/init.d/functions*"
-FILES_${PN}-sushell = "${base_sbindir}/sushell"
+FILES:${PN}-sushell = "${base_sbindir}/sushell"
 HALTARGS ?= "-d -f"
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ MASKED_SCRIPTS = " \
  sysfs \
  urandom"
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
        if type systemctl >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
                if [ -n "$D" ]; then
                        OPTS="--root=$D"
@@ -186,4 +186,4 @@ pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
    fi
 }
-CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/init.d/checkroot.sh"
+CONFFILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/init.d/checkroot.sh"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
index b557d691b5..7cb45eff77 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ inherit autotools gettext pkgconfig
 DEPENDS += "flex-native"
-RREPLACES_${PN} = "console-tools"
+RREPLACES:${PN} = "console-tools"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = "console-tools"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "console-tools"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "console-tools"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "console-tools"
 SRC_URI = "${KERNELORG_MIRROR}/linux/utils/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.xz \
           "
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[pam] = "--enable-vlock, --disable-vlock, libpam,"
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-consolefonts ${PN}-keymaps ${PN}-unimaps ${PN}-consoletrans"
-FILES_${PN}-consolefonts = "${datadir}/consolefonts"
+FILES:${PN}-consolefonts = "${datadir}/consolefonts"
-FILES_${PN}-consoletrans = "${datadir}/consoletrans"
+FILES:${PN}-consoletrans = "${datadir}/consoletrans"
-FILES_${PN}-keymaps = "${datadir}/keymaps"
+FILES:${PN}-keymaps = "${datadir}/keymaps"
-FILES_${PN}-unimaps = "${datadir}/unimaps"
+FILES:${PN}-unimaps = "${datadir}/unimaps"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    if [ ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'yes', '', d)} = yes ] \
    && [ -f ${D}${sysconfdir}/pam.d/vlock ]; then
        mv -f ${D}${sysconfdir}/pam.d/vlock ${D}${sysconfdir}/pam.d/vlock.kbd
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ do_install_append () {
 inherit update-alternatives
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "chvt deallocvt fgconsole openvt showkey \
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "chvt deallocvt fgconsole openvt showkey \
                     ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'vlock','', d)}"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libcgroup/libcgroup_0.41.bb b/meta/recipes-core/libcgroup/libcgroup_0.41.bb
index 92d7261b0d..400f96f17f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libcgroup/libcgroup_0.41.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libcgroup/libcgroup_0.41.bb
@@ -13,24 +13,24 @@ DEPENDS = "bison-native flex-native"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/project/libcg/${BPN}/v0.41/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
           file://CVE-2018-14348.patch"
-SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = " file://musl-decls-compat.patch"
+SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = " file://musl-decls-compat.patch"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3dea9d50b8a5b73ff0bf1cdcb210f63f"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "e4e38bdc7ef70645ce33740ddcca051248d56b53283c0dc6d404e17706f6fb51"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcg/files/libcgroup/"
-DEPENDS_append_libc-musl = " fts "
+DEPENDS:append:libc-musl = " fts "
-EXTRA_OEMAKE_append_libc-musl = " LIBS=-lfts"
+EXTRA_OEMAKE:append:libc-musl = " LIBS=-lfts"
 PACKAGECONFIG = "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[pam] = "--enable-pam-module-dir=${base_libdir}/security --enable-pam=yes,--enable-pam=no,libpam"
 PACKAGES =+ "cgroups-pam-plugin"
-FILES_cgroups-pam-plugin = "${base_libdir}/security/pam_cgroup.so*"
+FILES:cgroups-pam-plugin = "${base_libdir}/security/pam_cgroup.so*"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${base_libdir}/security/*.la"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${base_libdir}/security/*.la"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        # Moving libcgroup to base_libdir
        if [ ! ${D}${libdir} -ef ${D}${base_libdir} ]; then
                mkdir -p ${D}/${base_libdir}/
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-compat_4.4.23.bb b/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-compat_4.4.23.bb
index ba74eb1f94..ec9f9f4fa3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-compat_4.4.23.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt-compat_4.4.23.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"
 API = "--enable-obsolete-api"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        rm -rf ${D}${includedir}
        rm -rf ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig
        rm -rf ${D}${datadir}
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt.inc b/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt.inc
index 79a2aa49d6..d9b3a7d673 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt.inc
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SRC_URI += "file://fix_cflags_handling.patch"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/crypt"
-FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/libcrypt*.so.* \
+FILES:${PN} = "${libdir}/libcrypt*.so.* \
               ${libdir}/libcrypt-*.so \
               ${libdir}/libowcrypt*.so.* \
               ${libdir}/libowcrypt-*.so \
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 BUILD_CPPFLAGS = "-I${STAGING_INCDIR_NATIVE}"
 TARGET_CPPFLAGS = "-I${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${includedir} -Wno-error"
-CPPFLAGS_append_class-nativesdk = " -Wno-error"
+CPPFLAGS:append:class-nativesdk = " -Wno-error"
 API = "--disable-obsolete-api"
 EXTRA_OECONF += "${API}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.12.bb b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.12.bb
index 2d1e92966f..3105889c16 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.12.bb
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig binconfig-disabled ptest
 inherit ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python', 'python3native', '', d)}
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "bash make ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python', 'libgcc python3-core python3-logging python3-shell  python3-stringold python3-threading python3-unittest ${PN}-python', '', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash make ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python', 'libgcc python3-core python3-logging python3-shell  python3-stringold python3-threading python3-unittest ${PN}-python', '', d)}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-python += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python', 'python3-core', '', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-python += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python', 'python3-core', '', d)}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = " glibc-gconv-ebcdic-us \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = " glibc-gconv-ebcdic-us \
                                           glibc-gconv-ibm1141 \
                                           glibc-gconv-iso8859-5 \
                                           glibc-gconv-euc-jp \
@@ -53,25 +53,25 @@ export PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES="${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
 # WARNING: zlib is required for RPM use
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--without-debug --without-legacy --with-catalog --without-docbook --with-c14n --without-lzma --with-fexceptions"
-EXTRA_OECONF_class-native = "--without-legacy --without-docbook --with-c14n --without-lzma --with-zlib"
+EXTRA_OECONF:class-native = "--without-legacy --without-docbook --with-c14n --without-lzma --with-zlib"
-EXTRA_OECONF_class-nativesdk = "--without-legacy --without-docbook --with-c14n --without-lzma --with-zlib"
+EXTRA_OECONF:class-nativesdk = "--without-legacy --without-docbook --with-c14n --without-lzma --with-zlib"
-EXTRA_OECONF_linuxstdbase = "--with-debug --with-legacy --with-docbook --with-c14n --without-lzma --with-zlib"
+EXTRA_OECONF:linuxstdbase = "--with-debug --with-legacy --with-docbook --with-c14n --without-lzma --with-zlib"
-python populate_packages_prepend () {
+python populate_packages:prepend () {
    # autonamer would call this libxml2-2, but we don't want that
    if d.getVar('DEBIAN_NAMES'):
-        d.setVar('PKG_libxml2', '${MLPREFIX}libxml2')
+        d.setVar('PKG:libxml2', '${MLPREFIX}libxml2')
 }
 PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN += "${PN}-utils"
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-python"
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/*.a"
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/*.a"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/xml2Conf.sh"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/xml2Conf.sh"
-FILES_${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/*"
-FILES_${PN}-python = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
+FILES:${PN}-python = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
        # executables take longer to package: these should not be executable
        find ${S}/xmlconf/ -type f -exec chmod -x {} \+
 }
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ do_install_ptest () {
            {} +
 }
-do_install_append_class-native () {
+do_install:append:class-native () {
        # Docs are not needed in the native case
        rm ${D}${datadir}/gtk-doc -rf
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
index b5dae176bf..9775430d4b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ do_populate_sdk[stamp-extra-info] = "${PACKAGE_ARCH}"
 REAL_MULTIMACH_TARGET_SYS = "none"
-create_sdk_files_append () {
+create_sdk_files:append () {
        rm -f ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}/site-config-*
        rm -f ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}/environment-setup-*
        rm -f ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}/version-*
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/dummy-sdk-package.inc b/meta/recipes-core/meta/dummy-sdk-package.inc
index bedde2965c..bd26e39ad3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/dummy-sdk-package.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/dummy-sdk-package.inc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ python() {
    d.setVar('PACKAGE_ARCH', '${DUMMYARCH}')
 }
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
 PR[vardeps] += "DUMMYPROVIDES"
 PR[vardeps] += "DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES"
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES ??= ""
 DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_MULTILIB = "${@' '.join([multilib_pkg_extend(d, pkg) for pkg in d.getVar('DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES').split()])}"
 DUMMYPROVIDES += "${DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_MULTILIB}"
-python populate_packages_prepend() {
+python populate_packages:prepend() {
    p = d.getVar("PN")
-    d.appendVar("RPROVIDES_%s" % p, "${DUMMYPROVIDES}")
+    d.appendVar("RPROVIDES:%s" % p, "${DUMMYPROVIDES}")
-    d.appendVar("RCONFLICTS_%s" % p, "${DUMMYPROVIDES}")
+    d.appendVar("RCONFLICTS:%s" % p, "${DUMMYPROVIDES}")
-    d.appendVar("RREPLACES_%s" % p, "${DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_MULTILIB}")
+    d.appendVar("RREPLACES:%s" % p, "${DUMMYPROVIDES_PACKAGES_MULTILIB}")
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment-extsdk.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment-extsdk.bb
index 2076b56f25..706312b0d6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment-extsdk.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment-extsdk.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ require meta-environment.bb
 PN = "meta-environment-extsdk-${MACHINE}"
-create_sdk_files_append() {
+create_sdk_files:append() {
        local sysroot=${SDKPATH}/tmp/${@os.path.relpath(d.getVar('STAGING_DIR'), d.getVar('TMPDIR'))}/${MACHINE}
        local sdkpathnative=${SDKPATH}/tmp/${@os.path.relpath(d.getVar('STAGING_DIR'), d.getVar('TMPDIR'))}/${BUILD_ARCH}
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment.bb
index da1230bead..27f0103665 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ MODIFYTOS = "0"
 REAL_MULTIMACH_TARGET_SYS = "${TUNE_PKGARCH}${TARGET_VENDOR}-${TARGET_OS}"
 inherit toolchain-scripts
-TOOLCHAIN_NEED_CONFIGSITE_CACHE_append = " zlib"
+TOOLCHAIN_NEED_CONFIGSITE_CACHE:append = " zlib"
 # Need to expand here before cross-candian changes HOST_ARCH -> SDK_ARCH
 TOOLCHAIN_CONFIGSITE_NOCACHE := "${TOOLCHAIN_CONFIGSITE_NOCACHE}"
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ do_install() {
 PN = "meta-environment-${MACHINE}"
 PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-FILES_${PN}= " \
+FILES:${PN}= " \
    ${SDKPATH}/* \
    "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-go-toolchain.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-go-toolchain.bb
index dde385c1b1..c24518efe3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-go-toolchain.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-go-toolchain.bb
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
 inherit populate_sdk
-TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK_append = " \
+TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK:append = " \
    packagegroup-go-cross-canadian-${MACHINE} \
 "
-TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK_append = " \
+TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK:append = " \
    ${@multilib_pkg_extend(d, 'packagegroup-go-sdk-target')} \
 "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/signing-keys.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/signing-keys.bb
index 5bab94aa36..03463f95f5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/signing-keys.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/signing-keys.bb
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ SYSROOT_DIRS += "${sysconfdir}/pki"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-ipk ${PN}-rpm ${PN}-packagefeed"
-FILES_${PN}-rpm = "${sysconfdir}/pki/rpm-gpg"
+FILES:${PN}-rpm = "${sysconfdir}/pki/rpm-gpg"
-FILES_${PN}-ipk = "${sysconfdir}/pki/ipk-gpg"
+FILES:${PN}-ipk = "${sysconfdir}/pki/ipk-gpg"
-FILES_${PN}-packagefeed = "${sysconfdir}/pki/packagefeed-gpg"
+FILES:${PN}-packagefeed = "${sysconfdir}/pki/packagefeed-gpg"
 python do_get_public_keys () {
    from oe.gpg_sign import get_signer
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/testexport-tarball.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/testexport-tarball.bb
index daedd78cb4..de7663b38c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/testexport-tarball.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/testexport-tarball.bb
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ do_populate_sdk[stamp-extra-info] = "${PACKAGE_ARCH}"
 REAL_MULTIMACH_TARGET_SYS = "none"
-create_sdk_files_append () {
+create_sdk_files:append () {
        rm -f ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}/site-config-*
        rm -f ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}/environment-setup-*
        rm -f ${SDK_OUTPUT}/${SDKPATH}/version-*
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb
index bc6cc0d183..ba0916cb56 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ DEPENDS = "\
           btrfs-tools-native squashfs-tools-native pseudo-native \
           e2fsprogs-native util-linux-native tar-native\
           "
-DEPENDS_append_x86 = " syslinux-native syslinux grub-efi systemd-boot"
+DEPENDS:append:x86 = " syslinux-native syslinux grub-efi systemd-boot"
-DEPENDS_append_x86-64 = " syslinux-native syslinux grub-efi systemd-boot"
+DEPENDS:append:x86-64 = " syslinux-native syslinux grub-efi systemd-boot"
-DEPENDS_append_x86-x32 = " syslinux-native syslinux grub-efi"
+DEPENDS:append:x86-x32 = " syslinux-native syslinux grub-efi"
-DEPENDS_append_aarch64 = " grub-efi systemd-boot"
+DEPENDS:append:aarch64 = " grub-efi systemd-boot"
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/musl/bsd-headers.bb b/meta/recipes-core/musl/bsd-headers.bb
index c9945d45eb..cf8af0da3c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/musl/bsd-headers.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/musl/bsd-headers.bb
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ do_install() {
 #
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = ".*-musl.*"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = ""
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-dbg = "${PN}-dev (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-dbg = "${PN}-dev (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/musl/gcompat_git.bb b/meta/recipes-core/musl/gcompat_git.bb
index 863ba8dbf0..6e5cc11d5d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/musl/gcompat_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/musl/gcompat_git.bb
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ do_install () {
        fi
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "/lib64"
+FILES:${PN} += "/lib64"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "libdir"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "libdir"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "musl-glibc-compat"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "musl-glibc-compat"
 #
 # We will skip parsing for non-musl systems
 #
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/musl/libssp-nonshared.bb b/meta/recipes-core/musl/libssp-nonshared.bb
index 81c87e8e8d..748dacf312 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/musl/libssp-nonshared.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/musl/libssp-nonshared.bb
@@ -30,6 +30,6 @@ do_install() {
 # We will skip parsing for non-musl systems
 #
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = ".*-musl.*"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-staticdev = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-staticdev = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = ""
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-dbg = "${PN}-staticdev (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-dbg = "${PN}-staticdev (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-utils.bb b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-utils.bb
index dd0ce33061..4f99d4324f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-utils.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-utils.bb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-iconv"
-FILES_${PN}-iconv = "${bindir}/iconv"
+FILES:${PN}-iconv = "${bindir}/iconv"
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = ".*-musl.*"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl.inc b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl.inc
index 54edfc88e5..66468e92ff 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl.inc
@@ -14,16 +14,16 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT;md5=b03f1cc25363d094011f8f4fd8bcfb68"
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
 FILES_SOLIBSDEV = ""
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV}"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV}"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "dev-so"
 # Doesn't compile in MIPS16e mode due to use of hand-written
 # assembly
 MIPS_INSTRUCTION_SET = "mips"
 # thumb1 is unsupported
-ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv5 = "arm"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET:armv5 = "arm"
-ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv4 = "arm"
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET:armv4 = "arm"
 # Enable out of tree build
 B = "${WORKDIR}/build"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl_git.bb b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl_git.bb
index bd9d5f1d4b..f9c174d9c1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl_git.bb
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ LDFLAGS += "-Wl,-soname,libc.so"
 # disabled automatically due to the optimisation level, but append an explicit
 # -fomit-frame-pointer to handle cases where optimisation is set to -O0 or frame
 # pointers have been enabled by -fno-omit-frame-pointer earlier in CFLAGS, etc.
-CFLAGS_append_arm = " ${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_CCARGS', '-mthumb', '-fomit-frame-pointer', '', d)}"
+CFLAGS:append:arm = " ${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_CCARGS', '-mthumb', '-fomit-frame-pointer', '', d)}"
 CONFIGUREOPTS = " \
    --prefix=${prefix} \
@@ -70,19 +70,19 @@ do_install() {
        lnr ${D}${libdir}/libc.so ${D}${bindir}/ldd
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "/lib/ld-musl-${MUSL_LDSO_ARCH}.so.1 ${sysconfdir}/ld-musl-${MUSL_LDSO_ARCH}.path"
+FILES:${PN} += "/lib/ld-musl-${MUSL_LDSO_ARCH}.so.1 ${sysconfdir}/ld-musl-${MUSL_LDSO_ARCH}.path"
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev = "${libdir}/libc.a"
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev = "${libdir}/libc.a"
-FILES_${PN}-dev =+ "${libdir}/libcrypt.a ${libdir}/libdl.a ${libdir}/libm.a \
+FILES:${PN}-dev =+ "${libdir}/libcrypt.a ${libdir}/libdl.a ${libdir}/libm.a \
                    ${libdir}/libpthread.a ${libdir}/libresolv.a \
                    ${libdir}/librt.a ${libdir}/libutil.a ${libdir}/libxnet.a \
                   "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev += "linux-libc-headers-dev bsd-headers-dev libssp-nonshared-staticdev"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev += "linux-libc-headers-dev bsd-headers-dev libssp-nonshared-staticdev"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-dev += "libc-dev virtual-libc-dev"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-dev += "libc-dev virtual-libc-dev"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "ldd libsegfault rtld(GNU_HASH)"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "ldd libsegfault rtld(GNU_HASH)"
 LEAD_SONAME = "libc.so"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-dev = "staticdev"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-dev = "staticdev"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "libdir"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "libdir"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS = "1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
index ef59bc3b0a..cbb12ca275 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://ncurses/base/version.c;beginline=1;endline=27;md5=5526f2f3a29edc95538b368a4771edda"
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses-native"
-DEPENDS_class-native = ""
+DEPENDS:class-native = ""
 BINCONFIG = "${bindir}/ncurses5-config ${bindir}/ncursesw5-config \
        ${bindir}/ncurses6-config ${bindir}/ncursesw6-config"
@@ -32,17 +32,17 @@ ENABLE_WIDEC ?= "true"
 BUILD_CPPFLAGS += "-D_GNU_SOURCE"
 # natives don't generally look in base_libdir
-base_libdir_class-native = "${libdir}"
+base_libdir:class-native = "${libdir}"
 # Display corruption occurs on 64 bit hosts without these settings
 # This was derrived from the upstream debian ncurses which uses
 # these settings for 32 and 64 bit hosts.
 EXCONFIG_ARGS = ""
-EXCONFIG_ARGS_class-native = " \
+EXCONFIG_ARGS:class-native = " \
                --disable-lp64 \
                --with-chtype='long' \
                --with-mmask-t='long'"
-EXCONFIG_ARGS_class-nativesdk = " \
+EXCONFIG_ARGS:class-nativesdk = " \
                --disable-lp64 \
                --with-chtype='long' \
                --with-mmask-t='long'"
@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "^${PN}-lib.*"
 # because the sstate had a hard coded search path.  Until this is fixed
 # another way this is deemed good enough.
 EX_TERMCAP = ""
-EX_TERMCAP_class-native = ":/etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap"
+EX_TERMCAP:class-native = ":/etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap"
-EX_TERMCAP_class-nativesdk = ":/etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap"
+EX_TERMCAP:class-nativesdk = ":/etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap"
 EX_TERMINFO = ""
-EX_TERMINFO_class-native = ":/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo:/usr/share/misc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo"
+EX_TERMINFO:class-native = ":/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo:/usr/share/misc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo"
-EX_TERMINFO_class-nativesdk = ":/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo:/usr/share/misc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo"
+EX_TERMINFO:class-nativesdk = ":/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo:/usr/share/misc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo"
 EX_TERMLIB ?= "tinfo"
 # Helper function for do_configure to allow multiple configurations
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ do_install() {
        oe_multilib_header curses.h
 }
-python populate_packages_prepend () {
+python populate_packages:prepend () {
    libdir = d.expand("${libdir}")
    base_libdir = d.expand("${base_libdir}")
    pnbase = d.expand("${PN}-lib%s")
@@ -272,8 +272,8 @@ inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_ncurses-tools_class-target = "clear reset"
+ALTERNATIVE:ncurses-tools:class-target = "clear reset"
-ALTERNATIVE_ncurses-terminfo_class-target = "st st-256color"
+ALTERNATIVE:ncurses-terminfo:class-target = "st st-256color"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[st] = "${datadir}/terminfo/s/st"
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ PACKAGES += " \
  ${PN}-terminfo \
 "
-FILES_${PN} = "\
+FILES:${PN} = "\
  ${bindir}/tput \
  ${bindir}/tset \
  ${bindir}/ncurses5-config \
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ FILES_${PN} = "\
 # This keeps only tput/tset in ncurses
 # clear/reset are in already busybox
-FILES_${PN}-tools = "\
+FILES:${PN}-tools = "\
  ${bindir}/tic \
  ${bindir}/toe \
  ${bindir}/infotocap \
@@ -312,20 +312,20 @@ FILES_${PN}-tools = "\
 "
 # 'reset' is a symlink to 'tset' which is in the 'ncurses' package
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-tools = "${PN} ${PN}-terminfo-base"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-tools = "${PN} ${PN}-terminfo-base"
-FILES_${PN}-terminfo = "\
+FILES:${PN}-terminfo = "\
  ${datadir}/terminfo \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-terminfo-base = "\
+FILES:${PN}-terminfo-base = "\
  ${sysconfdir}/terminfo \
 "
-RSUGGESTS_${PN}-libtinfo = "${PN}-terminfo"
+RSUGGESTS:${PN}-libtinfo = "${PN}-terminfo"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-libtinfo = "${PN}-terminfo-base"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-libtinfo = "${PN}-terminfo-base"
 # Putting terminfo into the sysroot adds around 2800 files to
 # each recipe specific sysroot. We can live without this, particularly
 # as many recipes may have native and target copies.
-SYSROOT_DIRS_remove = "${datadir}"
+SYSROOT_DIRS:remove = "${datadir}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/newlib/libgloss_4.1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/newlib/libgloss_4.1.0.bb
index c9ed30d988..8c8ee91395 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/newlib/libgloss_4.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/newlib/libgloss_4.1.0.bb
@@ -2,21 +2,21 @@ require newlib.inc
 DEPENDS += "newlib"
-FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/libgloss:"
+FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/libgloss:"
-SRC_URI_append_powerpc = " file://fix-rs6000-crt0.patch"
+SRC_URI:append:powerpc = " file://fix-rs6000-crt0.patch"
-SRC_URI_append_arm = " file://fix_makefile_include_arm_h.patch"
+SRC_URI:append:arm = " file://fix_makefile_include_arm_h.patch"
 do_configure() {
        ${S}/libgloss/configure ${EXTRA_OECONF}
 }
-do_install_prepend() {
+do_install:prepend() {
        # install doesn't create this itself, avoid install error
        install -d ${D}${prefix}/${TARGET_SYS}/lib
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        # Move libs to default directories so they can be picked up later
        install -d ${D}${libdir}
        mv -v ${D}${prefix}/${TARGET_SYS}/lib/* ${D}${libdir}
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ do_install_append() {
 }
 # Split packages correctly
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/*.ld ${libdir}/*.specs"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/*.ld ${libdir}/*.specs"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/cpu-init/*"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/cpu-init/*"
 INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP = "1"
 INHIBIT_PACKAGE_DEBUG_SPLIT = "1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib.inc
index 0aba21fae7..23cd172008 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib.inc
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/newlib-${PV}"
 B = "${WORKDIR}/build"
 ## disable stdlib
-TARGET_CC_ARCH_append = " -nostdlib"
+TARGET_CC_ARCH:append = " -nostdlib"
 EXTRA_OECONF = " \
                --build=${BUILD_SYS}  \
@@ -50,5 +50,5 @@ do_install() {
        oe_runmake install DESTDIR='${D}'
 }
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_libc-musl_class-target = "null"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl:class-target = "null"
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_libc-glibc_class-target = "null"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-glibc:class-target = "null"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib_4.1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib_4.1.0.bb
index 7ab5b2b94e..0542c596ba 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib_4.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib_4.1.0.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ do_configure() {
    ${S}/configure ${EXTRA_OECONF}
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        # Move include files and libs to default directories so they can be picked up later
        mv -v ${D}${prefix}/${TARGET_SYS}/lib ${D}${libdir}
        mv -v ${D}${prefix}/${TARGET_SYS}/include ${D}${includedir}
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ do_install_append() {
 }
 # No rpm package is actually created but -dev depends on it, avoid dnf error
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev_libc-newlib = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev:libc-newlib = ""
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb b/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb
index a29d678125..38ee4f993b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/os-release/os-release.bb
@@ -50,4 +50,4 @@ do_install () {
    lnr ${D}${nonarch_libdir}/os-release ${D}${sysconfdir}/os-release
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${nonarch_libdir}/os-release"
+FILES:${PN} += "${nonarch_libdir}/os-release"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf-shell-image.bb b/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf-shell-image.bb
index fd4fb5b732..50c4517da3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf-shell-image.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf-shell-image.bb
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "boot image with UEFI shell and tools"
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_class-target='(i.86|x86_64).*'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:class-target='(i.86|x86_64).*'
 # For this image recipe, only the wic format with a
 # single vfat partition makes sense. Because we have no
 # boot loader and no rootfs partition, not additional
 # tools are needed for this .wks file.
-IMAGE_FSTYPES_forcevariable = 'wic'
+IMAGE_FSTYPES:forcevariable = 'wic'
 WKS_FILE = "ovmf/ovmf-shell-image.wks"
 WKS_FILE_DEPENDS = ""
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb b/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb
index 90dae2aed0..145240e77e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ovmf/ovmf_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "OVMF is an EDK II based project to enable UEFI support for \
 Virtual Machines. OVMF contains sample UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/OVMF"
 LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"
-LICENSE_class-target = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'secureboot', 'BSD & OpenSSL', 'BSD', d)}"
+LICENSE:class-target = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'secureboot', 'BSD & OpenSSL', 'BSD', d)}"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://OvmfPkg/License.txt;md5=06357ddc23f46577c2aeaeaf7b776d65"
 # Enabling Secure Boot adds a dependency on OpenSSL and implies
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ EDK_TOOLS_DIR="edk2_basetools"
 BUILD_OPTIMIZATION="-pipe"
 # OVMF supports IA only, although it could conceivably support ARM someday.
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_class-target='(i.86|x86_64).*'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:class-target='(i.86|x86_64).*'
 # Additional build flags for OVMF with Secure Boot.
 # Fedora also uses "-D SMM_REQUIRE -D EXCLUDE_SHELL_FROM_FD".
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ export PYTHON_COMMAND = "${HOSTTOOLS_DIR}/python3"
 do_patch[postfuncs] += "fix_basetools_location"
 fix_basetools_location () {
 }
-fix_basetools_location_class-target() {
+fix_basetools_location:class-target() {
    # Replaces the fake path inserted by 0002-ovmf-update-path-to-native-BaseTools.patch.
    # Necessary for finding the actual BaseTools from ovmf-native.
    sed -i -e 's#BBAKE_EDK_TOOLS_PATH#${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/${EDK_TOOLS_DIR}#' ${S}/OvmfPkg/build.sh
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ fix_basetools_location_class-target() {
 do_patch[postfuncs] += "fix_iasl"
 fix_iasl() {
 }
-fix_iasl_class-native() {
+fix_iasl:class-native() {
    # iasl is not installed under /usr/bin when building with OE.
    sed -i -e 's#/usr/bin/iasl#${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/iasl#' ${S}/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template
 }
@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ fix_toolchain() {
        -e '/^VFR_CPPFLAGS/a CC = ${CC}\nCXX = ${CXX}\nAS = ${AS}\nAR = ${AR}\nLD = ${LD}' \
        ${S}/BaseTools/Source/C/VfrCompile/GNUmakefile
 }
-fix_toolchain_append_class-native() {
+fix_toolchain:append:class-native() {
    # This tools_def.template is going to be used by the target ovmf and
    # defines which compilers to use. For the GCC toolchain definitions,
    # that will be ${HOST_PREFIX}gcc. However, "make" doesn't need that
    # prefix.
    #
    # Injecting ENV(HOST_PREFIX) matches exporting that value as env
-    # variable in do_compile_class-target.
+    # variable in do_compile:class-target.
    sed -i \
        -e 's#\(ENV\|DEF\)(GCC.*_PREFIX)#ENV(HOST_PREFIX)#' \
        -e 's#ENV(HOST_PREFIX)make#make#' \
@@ -150,11 +150,11 @@ fixup_target_tools() {
    echo ${FIXED_GCCVER}
 }
-do_compile_class-native() {
+do_compile:class-native() {
    oe_runmake -C ${S}/BaseTools
 }
-do_compile_class-target() {
+do_compile:class-target() {
    export LFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"
    PARALLEL_JOBS="${@oe.utils.parallel_make_argument(d, '-n %d')}"
    OVMF_ARCH="X64"
@@ -203,12 +203,12 @@ do_compile_class-target() {
    fi
 }
-do_install_class-native() {
+do_install:class-native() {
    install -d ${D}/${bindir}/edk2_basetools
    cp -r ${S}/BaseTools ${D}/${bindir}/${EDK_TOOLS_DIR}
 }
-do_install_class-target() {
+do_install:class-target() {
    # Content for UEFI shell iso. We install the EFI shell as
    # bootx64/ia32.efi because then it can be started even when the
    # firmware itself does not contain it.
@@ -225,19 +225,19 @@ do_install_class-target() {
 #
 # However, EnrollDefaultKeys.efi is only included when Secure Boot is enabled.
 PACKAGES =+ "ovmf-shell-efi"
-FILES_ovmf-shell-efi = " \
+FILES:ovmf-shell-efi = " \
    EnrollDefaultKeys.efi \
    efi/ \
 "
 DEPLOYDEP = ""
-DEPLOYDEP_class-target = "qemu-system-native:do_populate_sysroot"
+DEPLOYDEP:class-target = "qemu-system-native:do_populate_sysroot"
-DEPLOYDEP_class-target += " ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'secureboot', 'openssl-native:do_populate_sysroot', '', d)}"
+DEPLOYDEP:class-target += " ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'secureboot', 'openssl-native:do_populate_sysroot', '', d)}"
 do_deploy[depends] += "${DEPLOYDEP}"
 do_deploy() {
 }
-do_deploy_class-target() {
+do_deploy:class-target() {
    # For use with "runqemu ovmf".
    for i in \
        ovmf \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host.bb
index ae989011f4..64e5883f95 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ inherit packagegroup nativesdk
 PACKAGEGROUP_DISABLE_COMPLEMENTARY = "1"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    nativesdk-pkgconfig \
    nativesdk-qemu \
    nativesdk-qemu-helper \
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
    nativesdk-flex \
    "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_darwin = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:darwin = "\
    nativesdk-pkgconfig \
    nativesdk-opkg \
    nativesdk-libtool \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb
index 6d4d7e6f7e..7489ef61b0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_keymaps ?= "keymaps"
 #
 # packagegroup-base contain stuff needed for base system (machine related)
 #
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base = "\
    packagegroup-distro-base \
    packagegroup-machine-base \
    \
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base = "\
    "
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base = "\
    kernel-module-nls-utf8 \
    kernel-module-input \
    kernel-module-uinput \
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base = "\
    kernel-module-rtc-sysfs \
    kernel-module-unix"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-extended = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-extended = "\
    packagegroup-base \
    ${ADD_WIFI} \
    ${ADD_BT} \
@@ -124,69 +124,69 @@ python __anonymous () {
 #
 # packages added by distribution
 #
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-distro-base = "${DISTRO} extras"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-distro-base = "${DISTRO} extras"
 DEPENDS_packagegroup-distro-base = "${DISTRO_EXTRA_DEPENDS}"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-distro-base = "${DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-distro-base = "${DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-distro-base = "${DISTRO_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS}"
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-distro-base = "${DISTRO_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS}"
 #
 # packages added by machine config
 #
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-machine-base = "${MACHINE} extras"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-machine-base = "${MACHINE} extras"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-machine-base = "Extra packages required to fully support ${MACHINE} hardware"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-machine-base = "Extra packages required to fully support ${MACHINE} hardware"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-machine-base = "${MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-machine-base = "${MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-machine-base = "${MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS}"
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-machine-base = "${MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS}"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-keyboard = "Keyboard support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-keyboard = "Keyboard support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-keyboard = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-keyboard = "\
    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_keymaps}"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-pci = "PCI bus support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-pci = "PCI bus support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-pci = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-pci = "\
    pciutils"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-acpi = "ACPI support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-acpi = "ACPI support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-acpi = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-acpi = "\
    acpid"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-apm = "APM support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-apm = "APM support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-apm = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-apm = "\
    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_apm} \
    apmd"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-ext2 = "ext2 filesystem support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-ext2 = "ext2 filesystem support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-ext2 = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-ext2 = "\
    e2fsprogs-e2fsck \
    e2fsprogs-mke2fs"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-ext2 = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-ext2 = "\
    hdparm \
    e2fsprogs"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-vfat = "FAT filesystem support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-vfat = "FAT filesystem support"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-vfat = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-vfat = "\
    kernel-module-msdos \
    kernel-module-vfat \
    kernel-module-nls-iso8859-1 \
    kernel-module-nls-cp437 \
    dosfstools"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-alsa = "ALSA sound support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-alsa = "ALSA sound support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-alsa = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-alsa = "\
    alsa-utils-alsactl \
    alsa-utils-amixer \
    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_alsa-state}"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-alsa = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-alsa = "\
    kernel-module-snd-mixer-oss \
    kernel-module-snd-pcm-oss"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-pcmcia = "PC card slot support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-pcmcia = "PC card slot support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-pcmcia = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-pcmcia = "\
    pcmciautils \
    "
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-pcmcia = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-pcmcia = "\
    kernel-module-pcmcia \
    kernel-module-airo-cs \
    kernel-module-pcnet-cs \
@@ -197,12 +197,12 @@ RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-pcmcia = "\
    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'wifi', 'kernel-module-orinoco-cs', '',d)} \
    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'wifi', 'kernel-module-spectrum-cs', '',d)}"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-bluetooth = "Bluetooth support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-bluetooth = "Bluetooth support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-bluetooth = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-bluetooth = "\
    bluez5 \
    "
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-bluetooth = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-bluetooth = "\
    kernel-module-bluetooth \
    kernel-module-l2cap \
    kernel-module-rfcomm \
@@ -218,19 +218,19 @@ RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-bluetooth = "\
    ${@bb.utils.contains('COMBINED_FEATURES', 'pcmcia', 'kernel-module-dtl1-cs', '',d)} \
    "
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-usbgadget = "USB gadget support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-usbgadget = "USB gadget support"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-usbgadget = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-usbgadget = "\
    kernel-module-pxa27x_udc \
    kernel-module-gadgetfs \
    kernel-module-g-file-storage \
    kernel-module-g-serial \
    kernel-module-g-ether"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-usbhost = "USB host support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-usbhost = "USB host support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-usbhost = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-usbhost = "\
    usbutils "
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-usbhost = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-usbhost = "\
    kernel-module-uhci-hcd \
    kernel-module-ohci-hcd \
    kernel-module-ehci-hcd \
@@ -244,36 +244,36 @@ RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-usbhost = "\
    kernel-module-usbserial \
    kernel-module-usb-storage "
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-ppp = "PPP dial-up protocol support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-ppp = "PPP dial-up protocol support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-ppp = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-ppp = "\
    ppp \
    ppp-dialin"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-ppp = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-ppp = "\
    kernel-module-ppp-async \
    kernel-module-ppp-deflate \
    kernel-module-ppp-generic \
    kernel-module-ppp-mppe \
    kernel-module-slhc"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-ipsec = "IPSEC support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-ipsec = "IPSEC support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-ipsec = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-ipsec = "\
    "
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-ipsec = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-ipsec = "\
    kernel-module-ipsec"
 #
 # packagegroup-base-wifi contain everything needed to get WiFi working
 # WEP/WPA connection needs to be supported out-of-box
 #
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-wifi = "WiFi support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-wifi = "WiFi support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-wifi = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-wifi = "\
    iw \
    wireless-regdb-static \
    wpa-supplicant"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-wifi = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-wifi = "\
    ${@bb.utils.contains('COMBINED_FEATURES', 'usbhost', 'kernel-module-zd1211rw', '',d)} \
    kernel-module-ieee80211-crypt \
    kernel-module-ieee80211-crypt-ccmp \
@@ -287,59 +287,59 @@ RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-wifi = "\
    kernel-module-aes-generic \
    kernel-module-aes"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-nfc = "Near Field Communication support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-nfc = "Near Field Communication support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-nfc = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-nfc = "\
    neard"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-nfc = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-nfc = "\
    kernel-module-nfc"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-3g = "Cellular data support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-3g = "Cellular data support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-3g = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-3g = "\
    ofono"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-3g = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-3g = "\
    kernel-module-cdc-acm \
    kernel-module-cdc-wdm"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-smbfs = "SMB network filesystem support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-smbfs = "SMB network filesystem support"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-smbfs = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-smbfs = "\
    kernel-module-cifs \
    kernel-module-smbfs"
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-cramfs = "cramfs filesystem support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-cramfs = "cramfs filesystem support"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-cramfs = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-cramfs = "\
    kernel-module-cramfs"
 #
 # packagegroup-base-nfs provides ONLY client support - server is in nfs-utils package
 #
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-nfs = "NFS network filesystem support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-nfs = "NFS network filesystem support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-nfs = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-nfs = "\
    rpcbind"
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-nfs = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-nfs = "\
    kernel-module-nfs "
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-zeroconf = "Zeroconf support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-zeroconf = "Zeroconf support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-zeroconf = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-zeroconf = "\
    avahi-daemon"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-zeroconf_append_libc-glibc = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-zeroconf:append:libc-glibc = "\
    libnss-mdns \
    "
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-ipv6 = "IPv6 support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-ipv6 = "IPv6 support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-ipv6 = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-ipv6 = "\
    "
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-base-ipv6 = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-base-ipv6 = "\
    kernel-module-ipv6 "
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-serial = "Serial port support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-serial = "Serial port support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-serial = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-serial = "\
    setserial \
    lrzsz "
-SUMMARY_packagegroup-base-phone = "Cellular telephony (voice) support"
+SUMMARY:packagegroup-base-phone = "Cellular telephony (voice) support"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-base-phone = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-base-phone = "\
    ofono"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-boot.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-boot.bb
index abbee14bd4..faf7bc0026 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-boot.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-boot.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ SYSVINIT_SCRIPTS = "${@bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES', 'rtc', '${VIRTUAL-R
                    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts} \
                   "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    base-files \
    base-passwd \
    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} \
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_update-alternatives} \
    ${MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "\
    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog} \
    ${MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-buildessential.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-buildessential.bb
index 78cc65db87..32f4ac3586 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-buildessential.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-buildessential.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Essential build dependencies"
 inherit packagegroup
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-buildessential = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-buildessential = "\
    autoconf \
    automake \
    binutils \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-eclipse-debug.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-eclipse-debug.bb
index c45463fc6c..4e91aaf47b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-eclipse-debug.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-eclipse-debug.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Remote debugging tools for Eclipse integration"
 inherit packagegroup
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    gdbserver \
    tcf-agent \
    openssh-sftp-server \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-nfs.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-nfs.bb
index 20fe6fc092..35beb3fc05 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-nfs.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-nfs.bb
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ inherit packagegroup
 PACKAGES = "${PN}-server ${PN}-client"
-SUMMARY_${PN}-client = "NFS client"
+SUMMARY:${PN}-client = "NFS client"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-client = "nfs-utils-client"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-client = "nfs-utils-client"
-SUMMARY_${PN}-server = "NFS server"
+SUMMARY:${PN}-server = "NFS server"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-server = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-server = "\
    nfs-utils \
    nfs-utils-client \
    "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-sdk.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-sdk.bb
index 03fa5296c1..d70aff22c7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-sdk.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-sdk.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ inherit packagegroup
 #PACKAGEFUNCS =+ 'generate_sdk_pkgs'
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-sdk = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-sdk = "\
    packagegroup-core-buildessential \
    coreutils \
    ccache \
@@ -26,15 +26,15 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-sdk = "\
    tcl"
 SANITIZERS = "libasan-dev libubsan-dev"
-SANITIZERS_arc = ""
+SANITIZERS:arc = ""
-SANITIZERS_microblaze = ""
+SANITIZERS:microblaze = ""
-SANITIZERS_mipsarch = ""
+SANITIZERS:mipsarch = ""
-SANITIZERS_nios2 = ""
+SANITIZERS:nios2 = ""
-SANITIZERS_riscv64 = ""
+SANITIZERS:riscv64 = ""
-SANITIZERS_riscv32 = ""
+SANITIZERS:riscv32 = ""
-SANITIZERS_libc-musl = ""
+SANITIZERS:libc-musl = ""
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-core-sdk = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-core-sdk = "\
    libgomp \
    libgomp-dev \
    ${SANITIZERS}"
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-core-sdk = "\
 #        # the package depchain code
 #        spkgdata = read_subpkgdata(pkg, d)
 #
-#        rdepends = explode_deps(spkgdata.get('RDEPENDS_%s' % pkg) or '')
+#        rdepends = explode_deps(spkgdata.get('RDEPENDS:%s' % pkg) or '')
 #        rreclist = []
 #
 #        for depend in rdepends:
@@ -63,16 +63,16 @@ RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-core-sdk = "\
 #                rreclist.append('%s-dev' % name)
 #            else:
 #                deppkgdata = read_subpkgdata(name, d)
-#                rdepends2 = explode_deps(deppkgdata.get('RDEPENDS_%s' % name) or '')
+#                rdepends2 = explode_deps(deppkgdata.get('RDEPENDS:%s' % name) or '')
 #                for depend in rdepends2:
 #                    split_depend = depend.split(' (')
 #                    name = split_depend[0].strip()
 #                    if packaged('%s-dev' % name, d):
 #                        rreclist.append('%s-dev' % name)
 #
-#            oldrrec = d.getVar('RRECOMMENDS_%s' % newpkg, False) or ''
+#            oldrrec = d.getVar('RRECOMMENDS:%s' % newpkg, False) or ''
-#            d.setVar('RRECOMMENDS_%s' % newpkg, oldrrec + ' ' + ' '.join(rreclist))
+#            d.setVar('RRECOMMENDS:%s' % newpkg, oldrrec + ' ' + ' '.join(rreclist))
-#            # bb.note('RRECOMMENDS_%s = "%s"' % (newpkg, d.getVar('RRECOMMENDS_%s' % newpkg, False)))
+#            # bb.note('RRECOMMENDS:%s = "%s"' % (newpkg, d.getVar('RRECOMMENDS:%s' % newpkg, False)))
 #
 #    # bb.note('pkgs is %s' % pkgs)
 #    d.setVar('PACKAGES', ' '.join(pkgs))
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-ssh-dropbear.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-ssh-dropbear.bb
index 5ec3f6c927..4f844ad925 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-ssh-dropbear.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-ssh-dropbear.bb
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ PR = "r1"
 inherit packagegroup
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "dropbear"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "dropbear"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh.bb
index 703f956aea..846df12bc7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh.bb
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ PR = "r1"
 inherit packagegroup
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "openssh"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "openssh"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bb
index 2a54f1ca3e..5ebcbcec82 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ PACKAGE_ARCH = "${TUNE_PKGARCH}"
 inherit packagegroup
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    libgcc \
    libgcc-dev \
    libatomic \
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
    ${LIBC_DEPENDENCIES} \
    "
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_mingw32 = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}:mingw32 = "\
    libssp \
    libssp-dev \
    "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-debug.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-debug.bb
index 542a02057c..c75850aa64 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-debug.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-debug.bb
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ inherit packagegroup
 PR = "r3"
 MTRACE = ""
-MTRACE_libc-glibc = "libc-mtrace"
+MTRACE:libc-glibc = "libc-mtrace"
 STRACE = "strace"
-STRACE_riscv32 = ""
+STRACE:riscv32 = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    gdb \
    gdbserver \
    ${MTRACE} \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-profile.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-profile.bb
index 194dca76d0..663a9cd57b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-profile.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-profile.bb
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ inherit packagegroup
 PROFILE_TOOLS_X = ""
 # sysprof doesn't support aarch64 and nios2
-PROFILE_TOOLS_X_aarch64 = ""
+PROFILE_TOOLS_X:aarch64 = ""
-PROFILE_TOOLS_X_nios2 = ""
+PROFILE_TOOLS_X:nios2 = ""
 PROFILE_TOOLS_SYSTEMD = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'systemd-analyze', '', d)}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "\
    ${PERF} \
    blktrace \
    ${PROFILE_TOOLS_X} \
@@ -27,19 +27,19 @@ PROFILETOOLS = "\
    powertop \
    "
 PERF = "perf"
-PERF_libc-musl = ""
+PERF:libc-musl = ""
-PERF_libc-musl_arm = "perf"
+PERF:libc-musl:arm = "perf"
-PERF_riscv32 = ""
+PERF:riscv32 = ""
 # systemtap needs elfutils which is not fully buildable on some arches/libcs
 SYSTEMTAP = "systemtap"
-SYSTEMTAP_libc-musl = ""
+SYSTEMTAP:libc-musl = ""
-SYSTEMTAP_nios2 = ""
+SYSTEMTAP:nios2 = ""
-SYSTEMTAP_riscv64 = ""
+SYSTEMTAP:riscv64 = ""
 LTTNGTOOLS = "lttng-tools"
-LTTNGTOOLS_arc = ""
+LTTNGTOOLS:arc = ""
-LTTNGTOOLS_riscv32 = ""
+LTTNGTOOLS:riscv32 = ""
 BABELTRACE = "babeltrace"
 BABELTRACE2 = "babeltrace2"
@@ -47,22 +47,22 @@ BABELTRACE2 = "babeltrace2"
 # valgrind does not work on the following configurations/architectures
 VALGRIND = "valgrind"
-VALGRIND_libc-musl = ""
+VALGRIND:libc-musl = ""
-VALGRIND_mipsarch = ""
+VALGRIND:mipsarch = ""
-VALGRIND_nios2 = ""
+VALGRIND:nios2 = ""
-VALGRIND_arc = ""
+VALGRIND:arc = ""
-VALGRIND_armv4 = ""
+VALGRIND:armv4 = ""
-VALGRIND_armv5 = ""
+VALGRIND:armv5 = ""
-VALGRIND_armv6 = ""
+VALGRIND:armv6 = ""
-VALGRIND_armeb = ""
+VALGRIND:armeb = ""
-VALGRIND_aarch64 = ""
+VALGRIND:aarch64 = ""
-VALGRIND_riscv64 = ""
+VALGRIND:riscv64 = ""
-VALGRIND_riscv32 = ""
+VALGRIND:riscv32 = ""
-VALGRIND_powerpc = "${@bb.utils.contains('TARGET_FPU', 'soft', '', 'valgrind', d)}"
+VALGRIND:powerpc = "${@bb.utils.contains('TARGET_FPU', 'soft', '', 'valgrind', d)}"
-VALGRIND_linux-gnux32 = ""
+VALGRIND:linux-gnux32 = ""
-VALGRIND_linux-gnun32 = ""
+VALGRIND:linux-gnun32 = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    ${PROFILETOOLS} \
    ${LTTNGTOOLS} \
    ${BABELTRACE} \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-testapps.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-testapps.bb
index 015810cb6b..94405fd8fe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-testapps.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-testapps.bb
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@ inherit packagegroup
 # kexec-tools doesn't work on e5500-64b, microblaze and nios2 yet
 KEXECTOOLS ?= "kexec"
-KEXECTOOLS_e5500-64b ?= ""
+KEXECTOOLS:e5500-64b ?= ""
-KEXECTOOLS_microblaze ?= ""
+KEXECTOOLS:microblaze ?= ""
-KEXECTOOLS_nios2 ?= ""
+KEXECTOOLS:nios2 ?= ""
-KEXECTOOLS_riscv64 ?= ""
+KEXECTOOLS:riscv64 ?= ""
-KEXECTOOLS_riscv32 ?= ""
+KEXECTOOLS:riscv32 ?= ""
 GSTEXAMPLES ?= "gst-examples"
-GSTEXAMPLES_riscv64 = ""
+GSTEXAMPLES:riscv64 = ""
 X11GLTOOLS = "\
    mesa-demos \
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ X11TOOLS = "\
    xprop \
    "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    blktool \
    ${KEXECTOOLS} \
    alsa-utils-amixer \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-cross-canadian.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-cross-canadian.bb
index 3b430c0814..49c075eb11 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-cross-canadian.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-cross-canadian.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ BINUTILS = "binutils-cross-canadian-${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH}"
 GCC = "gcc-cross-canadian-${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH}"
 GDB = "gdb-cross-canadian-${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    ${@all_multilib_tune_values(d, 'BINUTILS')} \
    ${@all_multilib_tune_values(d, 'GCC')} \
    ${@all_multilib_tune_values(d, 'GDB')} \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-go-cross-canadian.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-go-cross-canadian.bb
index 3daace1a40..d0596efe7a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-go-cross-canadian.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-go-cross-canadian.bb
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ PACKAGEGROUP_DISABLE_COMPLEMENTARY = "1"
 GO = "go-cross-canadian-${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
    ${@all_multilib_tune_values(d, 'GO')} \
 "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-go-sdk-target.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-go-sdk-target.bb
index 9a52b0781c..61629d273c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-go-sdk-target.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-go-sdk-target.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Target packages for the Go SDK"
 inherit packagegroup goarch
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
    go \
    go-runtime \
    go-runtime-dev \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-self-hosted.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-self-hosted.bb
index 9a70b189a4..9523aadd15 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-self-hosted.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-self-hosted.bb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ PACKAGES = "\
    packagegroup-self-hosted-host-tools \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-self-hosted = "\
    packagegroup-self-hosted-debug \
    packagegroup-self-hosted-sdk \
    packagegroup-self-hosted-extended \
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted = "\
    packagegroup-self-hosted-host-tools \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-host-tools = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-self-hosted-host-tools = "\
    e2fsprogs \
    e2fsprogs-e2fsck \
    e2fsprogs-mke2fs \
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-host-tools = "\
    screen \
    "
 PSEUDO = "pseudo"
-PSEUDO_libc-musl = ""
+PSEUDO:libc-musl = ""
-RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-host-tools = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:packagegroup-self-hosted-host-tools = "\
    kernel-module-tun \
    kernel-module-iptable-raw \
    kernel-module-iptable-nat \
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ RRECOMMENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-host-tools = "\
    kernel-module-iptable-filter \
        "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-sdk = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-self-hosted-sdk = "\
    autoconf \
    automake \
    binutils \
@@ -87,18 +87,18 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-sdk = "\
    quilt \
    sed \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-sdk_append_mingw32 = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-self-hosted-sdk:append:mingw32 = "\
    libssp \
    libssp-dev \
    libssp-staticdev \
    "
 # rpcsvc-proto: for rpcgen
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-sdk_append_libc-glibc = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-self-hosted-sdk:append:libc-glibc = "\
    glibc-gconv-ibm850 \
    glibc-utils \
    rpcsvc-proto \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-debug = " \
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-self-hosted-debug = " \
    gdb \
    gdbserver \
    rsync \
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-debug = " \
    tcf-agent"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-extended = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-self-hosted-extended = "\
    bzip2 \
    chrpath \
    cpio \
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-extended = "\
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-self-hosted-graphics = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-self-hosted-graphics = "\
    builder \
    libgl \
    libgl-dev \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb b/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb
index 59e1e3f194..e9789c4ce0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ python __anonymous() {
            pkgs.append(outname)
        localpaths.append(flocal)
-    # Set these so that we have less work to do in do_compile and do_install_append
+    # Set these so that we have less work to do in do_compile and do_install:append
    d.setVar("SPLASH_INSTALL", " ".join(pkgs))
    d.setVar("SPLASH_LOCALPATHS", " ".join(localpaths))
    for p in pkgs:
@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ python __anonymous() {
    for p in pkgs:
        ep = '%s%s' % (mlprefix, p)
        epsplash = '%s%s' % (mlprefix, 'psplash')
-        d.setVar("FILES_%s" % ep, "${bindir}/%s" % p)
+        d.setVar("FILES:%s" % ep, "${bindir}/%s" % p)
-        d.setVar("ALTERNATIVE_%s" % ep, 'psplash')
+        d.setVar("ALTERNATIVE:%s" % ep, 'psplash')
        d.setVarFlag("ALTERNATIVE_TARGET_%s" % ep, 'psplash', '${bindir}/%s' % p)
-        d.appendVar("RDEPENDS_%s" % ep, " %s" % pn)
+        d.appendVar("RDEPENDS:%s" % ep, " %s" % pn)
        if p == "psplash-default":
-            d.appendVar("RRECOMMENDS_%s" % pn, " %s" % ep)
+            d.appendVar("RRECOMMENDS:%s" % pn, " %s" % ep)
 }
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ python do_compile () {
        shutil.copyfile("psplash", outputfile)
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
                install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/
                install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/psplash-init ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/psplash.sh
@@ -122,9 +122,9 @@ do_install_append() {
 }
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','${PN}','',d)}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'systemd', 'psplash-start.service psplash-systemd.service', '', d)}"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'systemd', 'psplash-start.service psplash-systemd.service', '', d)}"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "psplash.sh"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 0 S . stop 20 0 1 6 ."
-FILES_${PN} += "/mnt"
+FILES:${PN} += "/mnt"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
index 039ffdee00..7f7f5ad2ee 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "--exclude=autoheader"
 LEAD_SONAME = "libreadline.so"
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
        if [ ! -e ${S}/acinclude.m4 ]; then
                cat ${S}/aclocal.m4 > ${S}/acinclude.m4
        fi
 }
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        # Make install doesn't properly install these
        oe_libinstall -so -C shlib libhistory ${D}${libdir}
        oe_libinstall -so -C shlib libreadline ${D}${libdir}
@@ -42,15 +42,15 @@ do_install_append () {
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
-CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/inputrc"
+CONFFILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/inputrc"
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "history.3"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "history.3"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[history.3] = "${mandir}/man3/history.3"
 # OpenSuse injects versions into libreadline leading to conficits between our native one and theirs
 # see their spec file for where this is injected. Extra versioning is harmless so we just do the same.
-SRC_URI_append_class-native = " file://rl-native.map"
+SRC_URI:append:class-native = " file://rl-native.map"
-LDFLAGS_append_class-native = " -Wl,--version-script=${WORKDIR}/rl-native.map"
+LDFLAGS:append:class-native = " -Wl,--version-script=${WORKDIR}/rl-native.map"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb
index 34bf431f40..72f8069e61 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Tools for working with the sysfs virtual filesystem.  The tool 's
 HOMEPAGE = "http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsutils.html"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
-LICENSE_${PN} = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE:${PN} = "GPLv2"
-LICENSE_libsysfs = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE:libsysfs = "LGPLv2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3d06403ea54c7574a9e581c6478cc393 \
                    file://cmd/GPL;md5=d41d4e2e1e108554e0388ea4aecd8d27 \
                    file://lib/LGPL;md5=b75d069791103ffe1c0d6435deeff72e"
@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/sysfsutils-${PV}"
 inherit autotools
 PACKAGES =+ "libsysfs"
-FILES_libsysfs = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:libsysfs = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
 export libdir = "${base_libdir}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_249.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_249.1.bb
index 2c0bec4eda..d767b5bf8d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_249.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_249.1.bb
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ DEPENDS = "intltool-native libcap util-linux gnu-efi gperf-native python3-jinja2
 inherit meson pkgconfig gettext
 inherit deploy
-LDFLAGS_prepend = "${@ " ".join(d.getVar('LD').split()[1:])} "
+LDFLAGS:prepend = "${@ " ".join(d.getVar('LD').split()[1:])} "
 do_write_config[vardeps] += "CC OBJCOPY"
-do_write_config_append() {
+do_write_config:append() {
    cat >${WORKDIR}/meson-${PN}.cross <<EOF
 [binaries]
 efi_cc = ${@meson_array('CC', d)}
@@ -41,15 +41,15 @@ python __anonymous () {
    d.setVar("SYSTEMD_BOOT_IMAGE_PREFIX", prefix)
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "${EFI_FILES_PATH}/${SYSTEMD_BOOT_IMAGE}"
+FILES:${PN} = "${EFI_FILES_PATH}/${SYSTEMD_BOOT_IMAGE}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "virtual/systemd-bootconf"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "virtual/systemd-bootconf"
 # Imported from the old gummiboot recipe
-TUNE_CCARGS_remove = "-mfpmath=sse"
+TUNE_CCARGS:remove = "-mfpmath=sse"
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(aarch64.*|arm.*|x86_64.*|i.86.*)-linux"
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_x86-x32 = "null"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:x86-x32 = "null"
 do_compile() {
        ninja \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-bootconf_1.00.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-bootconf_1.00.bb
index d13b8c518f..12c4447f37 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-bootconf_1.00.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-bootconf_1.00.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 SUMMARY = "Basic systemd-boot configuration files"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "virtual/systemd-bootconf"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "virtual/systemd-bootconf"
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
 inherit systemd-boot-cfg
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}"
 LABELS = "boot"
 ROOT ?= "root=/dev/sda2"
-APPEND_append = " ${ROOT}"
+APPEND:append = " ${ROOT}"
 python do_configure() {
    bb.build.exec_func('build_efi_cfg', d)
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ do_install() {
        install *.conf ${D}/boot/loader/entries/
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "/boot/loader/* /boot/loader/entries/*"
+FILES:${PN} = "/boot/loader/* /boot/loader/entries/*"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-compat-units.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-compat-units.bb
index 361dc1cbb4..f7505f1eb8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-compat-units.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-compat-units.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ inherit features_check
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "systemd"
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ SYSTEMD_DISABLED_SYSV_SERVICES = " \
  syslog.busybox \
 "
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
        cd $D${sysconfdir}/init.d  ||  exit 0
@@ -46,4 +46,4 @@ pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
        echo
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "systemd"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "systemd"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-conf_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-conf_1.0.bb
index 235923be85..61ce7939d3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-conf_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-conf_1.0.bb
@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ do_install() {
 }
 # Based on change from YP bug 8141, OE commit 5196d7bacaef1076c361adaa2867be31759c1b52
-do_install_append_qemuall() {
+do_install:append:qemuall() {
        install -D -m0644 ${WORKDIR}/system.conf-qemuall ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system.conf.d/01-${PN}.conf
 }
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
-FILES_${PN} = "\
+FILES:${PN} = "\
    ${systemd_unitdir}/journald.conf.d/ \
    ${systemd_unitdir}/logind.conf.d/ \
    ${systemd_unitdir}/system.conf.d/ \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-machine-units_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-machine-units_1.0.bb
index 02756f43d7..12f27d6ae3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-machine-units_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-machine-units_1.0.bb
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
 PR = "r19"
 inherit systemd
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = ""
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = ""
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb
index 34defeb3b1..92d35ebcf7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ do_install() {
 }
 # This is a machine specific file
-FILES_${PN} = "${systemd_unitdir}/system/*.service ${sysconfdir}"
+FILES:${PN} = "${systemd_unitdir}/system/*.service ${sysconfdir}"
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_249.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_249.1.bb
index 9bfb12249c..5d472027c9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_249.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_249.1.bb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ SRC_URI += "file://touchscreen.rules \
           "
 # patches needed by musl
-SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = " ${SRC_URI_MUSL}"
+SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = " ${SRC_URI_MUSL}"
 SRC_URI_MUSL = "\
               file://0002-don-t-use-glibc-specific-qsort_r.patch \
               file://0003-missing_type.h-add-__compare_fn_t-and-comparison_fn_.patch \
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= " \
    xz \
 "
-PACKAGECONFIG_remove_libc-musl = " \
+PACKAGECONFIG:remove:libc-musl = " \
    gshadow \
    idn \
    localed \
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG_remove_libc-musl = " \
    utmp \
 "
-CFLAGS_append_libc-musl = " -D__UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR=0 "
+CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = " -D__UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR=0 "
 # Some of the dependencies are weak-style recommends - if not available at runtime,
 # systemd won't fail but the library-related feature will be skipped with a warning.
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ do_install() {
        install -Dm 0644 ${WORKDIR}/systemd-pager.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/profile.d/systemd-pager.sh
 }
-python populate_packages_prepend (){
+python populate_packages:prepend (){
    systemdlibdir = d.getVar("rootlibdir")
    do_split_packages(d, systemdlibdir, '^lib(.*)\.so\.*', 'lib%s', 'Systemd %s library', extra_depends='', allow_links=True)
 }
@@ -359,96 +359,96 @@ PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN = "\
    udev-hwdb \
 "
-SUMMARY_${PN}-container = "Tools for containers and VMs"
+SUMMARY:${PN}-container = "Tools for containers and VMs"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-container = "Systemd tools to spawn and manage containers and virtual machines."
+DESCRIPTION:${PN}-container = "Systemd tools to spawn and manage containers and virtual machines."
-SUMMARY_${PN}-journal-gatewayd = "HTTP server for journal events"
+SUMMARY:${PN}-journal-gatewayd = "HTTP server for journal events"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-journal-gatewayd = "systemd-journal-gatewayd serves journal events over the network. Clients must connect using HTTP. The server listens on port 19531 by default."
+DESCRIPTION:${PN}-journal-gatewayd = "systemd-journal-gatewayd serves journal events over the network. Clients must connect using HTTP. The server listens on port 19531 by default."
-SUMMARY_${PN}-journal-upload = "Send journal messages over the network"
+SUMMARY:${PN}-journal-upload = "Send journal messages over the network"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-journal-upload = "systemd-journal-upload uploads journal entries to a specified URL."
+DESCRIPTION:${PN}-journal-upload = "systemd-journal-upload uploads journal entries to a specified URL."
-SUMMARY_${PN}-journal-remote = "Receive journal messages over the network"
+SUMMARY:${PN}-journal-remote = "Receive journal messages over the network"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-journal-remote = "systemd-journal-remote is a command to receive serialized journal events and store them to journal files."
+DESCRIPTION:${PN}-journal-remote = "systemd-journal-remote is a command to receive serialized journal events and store them to journal files."
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'binfmt', '${PN}-binfmt', '', d)} \
                    ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'microhttpd', '${PN}-journal-gatewayd', '', d)} \
                    ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'microhttpd', '${PN}-journal-remote', '', d)} \
                    ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'journal-upload', '${PN}-journal-upload', '', d)} \
 "
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-binfmt = "systemd-binfmt.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-binfmt = "systemd-binfmt.service"
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-extra-utils \
                    ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'microhttpd', '${PN}-journal-gateway', '', d)} \
                    ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'microhttpd', '${PN}-journal-remote', '', d)} \
                    ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'journal-upload', '${PN}-journal-upload', '', d)} \
 "
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "-r systemd-journal;"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "-r systemd-journal;"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'polkit_hostnamed_fallback', '-r systemd-hostname;', '', d)}"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'polkit_hostnamed_fallback', '-r systemd-hostname;', '', d)}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'coredump', '--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-coredump;', '', d)}"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'coredump', '--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-coredump;', '', d)}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'networkd', '--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-network;', '', d)}"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'networkd', '--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-network;', '', d)}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'polkit', '--system --no-create-home --user-group --home-dir ${sysconfdir}/polkit-1 polkitd;', '', d)}"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'polkit', '--system --no-create-home --user-group --home-dir ${sysconfdir}/polkit-1 polkitd;', '', d)}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'resolved', '--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-resolve;', '', d)}"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'resolved', '--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-resolve;', '', d)}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'timesyncd', '--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-timesync;', '', d)}"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'timesyncd', '--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-timesync;', '', d)}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN}-extra-utils = "--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-bus-proxy"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN}-extra-utils = "--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-bus-proxy"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN}-journal-gateway = "--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-journal-gateway"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN}-journal-gateway = "--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-journal-gateway"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN}-journal-remote = "--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-journal-remote"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN}-journal-remote = "--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-journal-remote"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN}-journal-upload = "--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-journal-upload"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN}-journal-upload = "--system -d / -M --shell /sbin/nologin systemd-journal-upload"
-FILES_${PN}-analyze = "${bindir}/systemd-analyze"
+FILES:${PN}-analyze = "${bindir}/systemd-analyze"
-FILES_${PN}-initramfs = "/init"
+FILES:${PN}-initramfs = "/init"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-initramfs = "${PN}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-initramfs = "${PN}"
-FILES_${PN}-gui = "${bindir}/systemadm"
+FILES:${PN}-gui = "${bindir}/systemadm"
-FILES_${PN}-vconsole-setup = "${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup \
+FILES:${PN}-vconsole-setup = "${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup \
                              ${systemd_unitdir}/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service \
                              ${systemd_unitdir}/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-vconsole-setup.service"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-kernel-install += "bash"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-kernel-install += "bash"
-FILES_${PN}-kernel-install = "${bindir}/kernel-install \
+FILES:${PN}-kernel-install = "${bindir}/kernel-install \
                              ${sysconfdir}/kernel/ \
                              ${exec_prefix}/lib/kernel \
                             "
-FILES_${PN}-rpm-macros = "${exec_prefix}/lib/rpm \
+FILES:${PN}-rpm-macros = "${exec_prefix}/lib/rpm \
                         "
-FILES_${PN}-zsh-completion = "${datadir}/zsh/site-functions"
+FILES:${PN}-zsh-completion = "${datadir}/zsh/site-functions"
-FILES_${PN}-binfmt = "${sysconfdir}/binfmt.d/ \
+FILES:${PN}-binfmt = "${sysconfdir}/binfmt.d/ \
                      ${exec_prefix}/lib/binfmt.d \
                      ${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-binfmt \
                      ${systemd_unitdir}/system/proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.* \
                      ${systemd_unitdir}/system/systemd-binfmt.service"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-binfmt = "kernel-module-binfmt-misc"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-binfmt = "kernel-module-binfmt-misc"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-vconsole-setup = "kbd kbd-consolefonts kbd-keymaps"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-vconsole-setup = "kbd kbd-consolefonts kbd-keymaps"
-FILES_${PN}-journal-gatewayd = "${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-journal-gatewayd \
+FILES:${PN}-journal-gatewayd = "${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-journal-gatewayd \
                                ${systemd_system_unitdir}/systemd-journal-gatewayd.service \
                                ${systemd_system_unitdir}/systemd-journal-gatewayd.socket \
                                ${systemd_system_unitdir}/sockets.target.wants/systemd-journal-gatewayd.socket \
                                ${datadir}/systemd/gatewayd/browse.html \
                               "
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-journal-gatewayd = "systemd-journal-gatewayd.socket"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-journal-gatewayd = "systemd-journal-gatewayd.socket"
-FILES_${PN}-journal-upload = "${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-journal-upload \
+FILES:${PN}-journal-upload = "${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-journal-upload \
                              ${systemd_system_unitdir}/systemd-journal-upload.service \
                              ${sysconfdir}/systemd/journal-upload.conf \
                             "
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-journal-upload = "systemd-journal-upload.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-journal-upload = "systemd-journal-upload.service"
-FILES_${PN}-journal-remote = "${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-journal-remote \
+FILES:${PN}-journal-remote = "${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-journal-remote \
                              ${sysconfdir}/systemd/journal-remote.conf \
                              ${systemd_system_unitdir}/systemd-journal-remote.service \
                              ${systemd_system_unitdir}/systemd-journal-remote.socket \
                             "
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-journal-remote = "systemd-journal-remote.socket"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-journal-remote = "systemd-journal-remote.socket"
-FILES_${PN}-container = "${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.import1.conf \
+FILES:${PN}-container = "${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.import1.conf \
                         ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf \
                         ${sysconfdir}/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/machines.target \
                         ${base_bindir}/machinectl \
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ FILES_${PN}-container = "${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.import1.c
                        "
 # "machinectl import-tar" uses "tar --numeric-owner", not supported by busybox.
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-container += "\
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-container += "\
                         ${PN}-journal-gatewayd \
                         ${PN}-journal-remote \
                         ${PN}-journal-upload \
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-container += "\
                         tar \
                        "
-FILES_${PN}-extra-utils = "\
+FILES:${PN}-extra-utils = "\
                        ${base_bindir}/systemd-escape \
                        ${base_bindir}/systemd-inhibit \
                        ${bindir}/systemd-detect-virt \
@@ -538,14 +538,14 @@ FILES_${PN}-extra-utils = "\
                        ${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-udev-rules = "\
+FILES:${PN}-udev-rules = "\
                        ${rootlibexecdir}/udev/rules.d/70-uaccess.rules \
                        ${rootlibexecdir}/udev/rules.d/71-seat.rules \
                        ${rootlibexecdir}/udev/rules.d/73-seat-late.rules \
                        ${rootlibexecdir}/udev/rules.d/99-systemd.rules \
 "
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/systemd/coredump.conf \
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/systemd/coredump.conf \
        ${sysconfdir}/systemd/journald.conf \
        ${sysconfdir}/systemd/logind.conf \
        ${sysconfdir}/systemd/networkd.conf \
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/systemd/coredump.conf \
        ${sysconfdir}/systemd/user.conf \
 "
-FILES_${PN} = " ${base_bindir}/* \
+FILES:${PN} = " ${base_bindir}/* \
                ${base_sbindir}/shutdown \
                ${base_sbindir}/halt \
                ${base_sbindir}/poweroff \
@@ -619,13 +619,13 @@ FILES_${PN} = " ${base_bindir}/* \
                ${datadir}/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.oom1.conf \
               "
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${base_libdir}/security/*.la ${datadir}/dbus-1/interfaces/ ${sysconfdir}/rpm/macros.systemd"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${base_libdir}/security/*.la ${datadir}/dbus-1/interfaces/ ${sysconfdir}/rpm/macros.systemd"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "kmod dbus util-linux-mount util-linux-umount udev (= ${EXTENDPKGV}) systemd-udev-rules util-linux-agetty util-linux-fsck"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "kmod dbus util-linux-mount util-linux-umount udev (= ${EXTENDPKGV}) systemd-udev-rules util-linux-agetty util-linux-fsck"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'serial-getty-generator', '', 'systemd-serialgetty', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'serial-getty-generator', '', 'systemd-serialgetty', d)}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "volatile-binds"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "volatile-binds"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "systemd-extra-utils \
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "systemd-extra-utils \
                      udev-hwdb \
                      e2fsprogs-e2fsck \
                      kernel-module-autofs4 kernel-module-unix kernel-module-ipv6 kernel-module-sch-fq-codel \
@@ -633,15 +633,15 @@ RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "systemd-extra-utils \
                      systemd-conf \
 "
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "dev-so libdir"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} += "dev-so libdir"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-dbg += "libdir"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-dbg += "libdir"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-doc += " libdir"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-doc += " libdir"
-RPROVIDES_udev = "hotplug"
+RPROVIDES:udev = "hotplug"
-RDEPENDS_udev-hwdb += "udev"
+RDEPENDS:udev-hwdb += "udev"
-FILES_udev += "${base_sbindir}/udevd \
+FILES:udev += "${base_sbindir}/udevd \
               ${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/network/99-default.link \
               ${rootlibexecdir}/systemd/systemd-udevd \
               ${rootlibexecdir}/udev/accelerometer \
@@ -700,14 +700,14 @@ FILES_udev += "${base_sbindir}/udevd \
               ${systemd_unitdir}/system/systemd-hwdb-update.service \
              "
-FILES_udev-hwdb = "${rootlibexecdir}/udev/hwdb.d \
+FILES:udev-hwdb = "${rootlibexecdir}/udev/hwdb.d \
                   "
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "tiny-init ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'resolved', 'resolvconf', '', d)}"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "tiny-init ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'resolved', 'resolvconf', '', d)}"
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "udev"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_udev = "systemd-udevd"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:udev = "systemd-udevd"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_udev = "start 03 S ."
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:udev = "start 03 S ."
 python __anonymous() {
    if not bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', True, False, d):
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ python do_warn_musl() {
 }
 addtask warn_musl before do_configure
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "halt reboot shutdown poweroff runlevel ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'resolved', 'resolv-conf', '', d)}"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "halt reboot shutdown poweroff runlevel ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'resolved', 'resolv-conf', '', d)}"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[resolv-conf] = "${sysconfdir}/resolv-conf.systemd"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[resolv-conf] = "${sysconfdir}/resolv.conf"
@@ -746,20 +746,20 @@ ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[runlevel] = "${base_bindir}/systemctl"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[runlevel] = "${base_sbindir}/runlevel"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[runlevel] ?= "300"
-pkg_postinst_${PN}_libc-glibc () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN}:libc-glibc () {
        sed -e '/^hosts:/s/\s*\<myhostname\>//' \
                -e 's/\(^hosts:.*\)\(\<files\>\)\(.*\)\(\<dns\>\)\(.*\)/\1\2 myhostname \3\4\5/' \
                -i $D${sysconfdir}/nsswitch.conf
 }
-pkg_prerm_${PN}_libc-glibc () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN}:libc-glibc () {
        sed -e '/^hosts:/s/\s*\<myhostname\>//' \
                -e '/^hosts:/s/\s*myhostname//' \
                -i $D${sysconfdir}/nsswitch.conf
 }
 PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS += "qemu-native"
-pkg_postinst_udev-hwdb () {
+pkg_postinst:udev-hwdb () {
        if test -n "$D"; then
                $INTERCEPT_DIR/postinst_intercept update_udev_hwdb ${PKG} mlprefix=${MLPREFIX} binprefix=${MLPREFIX} rootlibexecdir="${rootlibexecdir}" PREFERRED_PROVIDER_udev="${PREFERRED_PROVIDER_udev}"
        else
@@ -767,6 +767,6 @@ pkg_postinst_udev-hwdb () {
        fi
 }
-pkg_prerm_udev-hwdb () {
+pkg_prerm:udev-hwdb () {
        rm -f $D${sysconfdir}/udev/hwdb.bin
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
index d95d1a63f5..bfcf51c35a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
@@ -53,14 +53,14 @@ EOF
    fi
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
 # run this on host and on target
 if [ "${SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK}" = "" ]; then
       exit 0
 fi
 }
-pkg_postinst_ontarget_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst_ontarget:${PN} () {
 # run this on the target
 if [ -e /proc/consoles ]; then
        tmp="${SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK}"
@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ fi
 # Set PACKAGE_ARCH appropriately.
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
-FILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/inittab ${base_bindir}/start_getty"
+FILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/inittab ${base_bindir}/start_getty"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/inittab"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/inittab"
 USE_VT ?= "1"
 SYSVINIT_ENABLED_GETTYS ?= "1"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "busybox-inittab"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "busybox-inittab"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.99.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.99.bb
index e39f22a8bb..9ba9652f94 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.99.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.99.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe \
                    file://COPYRIGHT;endline=15;md5=a1d3b3526501d3546d530bbe6ab6cdbe \
                    "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "${PN}-inittab"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "${PN}-inittab"
 SRC_URI = "${SAVANNAH_GNU_MIRROR}/sysvinit/sysvinit-${PV}.tar.xz \
           file://install.patch \
@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b05c3677bb698afe64c997968b00c49b2a9bd320ce963523230ee7ea41
 S = "${WORKDIR}/sysvinit-${PV}"
 inherit update-alternatives features_check
-DEPENDS_append = " update-rc.d-native base-passwd virtual/crypt"
+DEPENDS:append = " update-rc.d-native base-passwd virtual/crypt"
 do_package_setscene[depends] = "${MLPREFIX}base-passwd:do_populate_sysroot"
 PACKAGECONFIG[psplash-text-updates] = ",,"
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "sysvinit"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "init mountpoint halt reboot runlevel shutdown poweroff last lastb mesg utmpdump wall"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "init mountpoint halt reboot runlevel shutdown poweroff last lastb mesg utmpdump wall"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "200"
@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[runlevel] = "${base_sbindir}/runlevel"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[shutdown] = "${base_sbindir}/shutdown"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[poweroff] = "${base_sbindir}/poweroff"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-pidof = "pidof"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-pidof = "pidof"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[pidof] = "${base_bindir}/pidof"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-sulogin = "sulogin"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-sulogin = "sulogin"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sulogin] = "${base_sbindir}/sulogin"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "mountpoint.1 last.1 lastb.1 mesg.1 wall.1 sulogin.8 utmpdump.1"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "mountpoint.1 last.1 lastb.1 mesg.1 wall.1 sulogin.8 utmpdump.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[last.1] = "${mandir}/man1/last.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[lastb.1] = "${mandir}/man1/lastb.1"
@@ -66,13 +66,13 @@ ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[utmpdump.1] = "${mandir}/man1/utmpdump.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[wall.1] = "${mandir}/man1/wall.1"
 PACKAGES =+ "sysvinit-pidof sysvinit-sulogin"
-FILES_${PN} += "${base_sbindir}/* ${base_bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN} += "${base_sbindir}/* ${base_bindir}/*"
-FILES_sysvinit-pidof = "${base_bindir}/pidof.sysvinit ${base_sbindir}/killall5"
+FILES:sysvinit-pidof = "${base_bindir}/pidof.sysvinit ${base_sbindir}/killall5"
-FILES_sysvinit-sulogin = "${base_sbindir}/sulogin.sysvinit"
+FILES:sysvinit-sulogin = "${base_sbindir}/sulogin.sysvinit"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "sysvinit-pidof initd-functions base-passwd"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "sysvinit-pidof initd-functions base-passwd"
-CFLAGS_prepend = "-D_GNU_SOURCE "
+CFLAGS:prepend = "-D_GNU_SOURCE "
 export LCRYPT = "-lcrypt"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += "'base_bindir=${base_bindir}' \
                 'base_sbindir=${base_sbindir}' \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev/permissions.rules b/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev/permissions.rules
index 205b733292..bfdff4f8ce 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev/permissions.rules
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev/permissions.rules
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ SUBSYSTEM=="net",				WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="address"
 SUBSYSTEM=="net", ENV{DRIVER}=="?*",            WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="device/driver"
 # devices needed to load the drivers providing them
-KERNEL=="tun",                                  OPTIONS+="ignore_remove"
+KERNEL=="tun",                                  OPTIONS+="ignore:remove"
-KERNEL=="ppp",                                  OPTIONS+="ignore_remove"
+KERNEL=="ppp",                                  OPTIONS+="ignore:remove"
-KERNEL=="loop[0-9]*",                           OPTIONS+="ignore_remove"
+KERNEL=="loop[0-9]*",                           OPTIONS+="ignore:remove"
 # default permissions for block devices
 SUBSYSTEM=="block",                             GROUP="disk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev_3.2.10.bb b/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev_3.2.10.bb
index a5d2115f80..347495cbdb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev_3.2.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev_3.2.10.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "eudev is a fork of systemd's udev"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eudev"
 DESCRIPTION = "eudev is Gentoo's fork of udev, systemd's device file manager for the Linux kernel. It manages device nodes in /dev and handles all user space actions when adding or removing devices."
 LICENSE = "GPLv2.0+ & LGPL-2.1+"
-LICENSE_libudev = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE:libudev = "LGPL-2.1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 glib-2.0-native gperf-native kmod libxslt-native util-linux"
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = " \
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "hwdb"
 PACKAGECONFIG[hwdb] = "--enable-hwdb,--disable-hwdb"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
        install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/init ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/udev
        sed -i s%@UDEVD@%${base_sbindir}/udevd% ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/udev
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ do_install_append() {
        ln ${D}${bindir}/udevadm ${D}${libexecdir}/${MLPREFIX}udevadm
 }
-do_install_prepend_class-target () {
+do_install:prepend:class-target () {
        # Remove references to buildmachine
        sed -i -e 's:${RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE}::g' \
                ${B}/src/udev/keyboard-keys-from-name.h
@@ -70,21 +70,21 @@ PACKAGES =+ "libudev"
 PACKAGES =+ "eudev-hwdb"
-FILES_${PN} += "${libexecdir} ${nonarch_base_libdir}/udev ${bindir}/udevadm"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libexecdir} ${nonarch_base_libdir}/udev ${bindir}/udevadm"
-FILES_${PN}-dev = "${datadir}/pkgconfig/udev.pc \
+FILES:${PN}-dev = "${datadir}/pkgconfig/udev.pc \
                   ${includedir}/libudev.h ${libdir}/libudev.so \
                   ${includedir}/udev.h ${libdir}/libudev.la \
                   ${libdir}/libudev.a ${libdir}/pkgconfig/libudev.pc"
-FILES_libudev = "${base_libdir}/libudev.so.*"
+FILES:libudev = "${base_libdir}/libudev.so.*"
-FILES_eudev-hwdb = "${sysconfdir}/udev/hwdb.d"
+FILES:eudev-hwdb = "${sysconfdir}/udev/hwdb.d"
-RDEPENDS_eudev-hwdb += "eudev"
+RDEPENDS:eudev-hwdb += "eudev"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = "hotplug udev"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "hotplug udev"
-RPROVIDES_eudev-hwdb += "udev-hwdb"
+RPROVIDES:eudev-hwdb += "udev-hwdb"
 PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS += "qemu-native"
-pkg_postinst_eudev-hwdb () {
+pkg_postinst:eudev-hwdb () {
    if test -n "$D"; then
        $INTERCEPT_DIR/postinst_intercept update_udev_hwdb ${PKG} mlprefix=${MLPREFIX} binprefix=${MLPREFIX}
    else
@@ -92,6 +92,6 @@ pkg_postinst_eudev-hwdb () {
    fi
 }
-pkg_prerm_eudev-hwdb () {
+pkg_prerm:eudev-hwdb () {
        rm -f $D${sysconfdir}/udev/hwdb.bin
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf_1.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf_1.1.bb
index 90f933d981..2ba35b0df6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf_1.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf_1.1.bb
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ do_install() {
    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/network.sh ${D}${sysconfdir}/udev/scripts
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/udev"
+FILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/udev"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "udev"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "udev"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/udev/mount.blacklist"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/udev/mount.blacklist"
 # to replace udev-extra-rules from meta-oe
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = "udev-extra-rules"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "udev-extra-rules"
-RREPLACES_${PN} = "udev-extra-rules"
+RREPLACES:${PN} = "udev-extra-rules"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "udev-extra-rules"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "udev-extra-rules"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux-libuuid_2.37.bb b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux-libuuid_2.37.bb
index 9612c491cd..5d759aed94 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux-libuuid_2.37.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux-libuuid_2.37.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/util-linux-${PV}"
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-all-programs --enable-libuuid"
 LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        rm -rf ${D}${datadir} ${D}${bindir} ${D}${base_bindir} ${D}${sbindir} ${D}${base_sbindir} ${D}${exec_prefix}/sbin
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
index 0648366baf..d07f648041 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ disk partitioning, kernel message management, filesystem creation, and system lo
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-4-Clause"
-LICENSE_${PN}-libblkid = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-libblkid = "LGPLv2.1+"
-LICENSE_${PN}-libfdisk = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-libfdisk = "LGPLv2.1+"
-LICENSE_${PN}-libmount = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-libmount = "LGPLv2.1+"
-LICENSE_${PN}-libsmartcols = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-libsmartcols = "LGPLv2.1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.licensing;md5=0fd5c050c6187d2bf0a4492b7f4e33da \
                    file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.licensing;md5=0fd5c050c6187d2bf0a4492b7f4e33da
                    file://libsmartcols/COPYING;md5=693bcbbe16d3a4a4b37bc906bc01cc04 \
 "
-FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/util-linux:"
+FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/util-linux:"
 MAJOR_VERSION = "${@'.'.join(d.getVar('PV').split('.')[0:2])}"
 SRC_URI = "${KERNELORG_MIRROR}/linux/utils/util-linux/v${MAJOR_VERSION}/util-linux-${PV}.tar.xz \
           file://configure-sbindir.patch \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.37.bb b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.37.bb
index 2548b7210b..b67c3dcb53 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.37.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.37.bb
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ PACKAGES += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'pylibmount', '${PN}-pylibmou
 python util_linux_binpackages () {
    def pkg_hook(f, pkg, file_regex, output_pattern, modulename):
        pn = d.getVar('PN')
-        d.appendVar('RRECOMMENDS_%s' % pn, ' %s' % pkg)
+        d.appendVar('RRECOMMENDS:%s' % pn, ' %s' % pkg)
-        if d.getVar('ALTERNATIVE_' + pkg):
+        if d.getVar('ALTERNATIVE:' + pkg):
            return
        if d.getVarFlag('ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME', modulename):
-            d.setVar('ALTERNATIVE_' + pkg, modulename)
+            d.setVar('ALTERNATIVE:' + pkg, modulename)
    bindirs = sorted(list(set(d.expand("${base_sbindir} ${base_bindir} ${sbindir} ${bindir}").split())))
    for dir in bindirs:
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ python util_linux_binpackages () {
    pn = d.getVar('PN')
    for pkg, links in extras.items():
-        of = d.getVar('FILES_' + pn + '-' + pkg)
+        of = d.getVar('FILES:' + pn + '-' + pkg)
        links = of + links
-        d.setVar('FILES_' + pn + '-' + pkg, links)
+        d.setVar('FILES:' + pn + '-' + pkg, links)
 }
 # we must execute before update-alternatives PACKAGE_PREPROCESS_FUNCS
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "^${PN}-.*"
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "scanf_cv_alloc_modifier=ms"
 UTIL_LINUX_LIBDIR = "${libdir}"
-UTIL_LINUX_LIBDIR_class-target = "${base_libdir}"
+UTIL_LINUX_LIBDIR:class-target = "${base_libdir}"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "\
    --enable-libuuid --enable-libblkid \
    \
@@ -81,17 +81,17 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "\
    --libdir='${UTIL_LINUX_LIBDIR}' \
 "
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-target = " --enable-setpriv"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:class-target = " --enable-setpriv"
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-native = " --without-cap-ng --disable-setpriv"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:class-native = " --without-cap-ng --disable-setpriv"
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-nativesdk = " --without-cap-ng --disable-setpriv"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:class-nativesdk = " --without-cap-ng --disable-setpriv"
-EXTRA_OECONF_append = " --disable-hwclock-gplv3"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append = " --disable-hwclock-gplv3"
 # enable pcre2 for native/nativesdk to match host distros
 # this helps to keep same expectations when using the SDK or
 # build host versions during development
 #
 PACKAGECONFIG ?= "pcre2"
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-target ?= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'chfn-chsh pam', '', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-target ?= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'chfn-chsh pam', '', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[pam] = "--enable-su --enable-runuser,--disable-su --disable-runuser, libpam,"
 # Respect the systemd feature for uuidd
 PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-systemd --with-systemdsystemunitdir=${systemd_system_unitdir}, --without-systemd --without-systemdsystemunitdir,systemd"
@@ -106,43 +106,43 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[chfn-chsh] = "--enable-chfn-chsh,--disable-chfn-chsh,"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "ARCH=${TARGET_ARCH} CPU= CPUOPT= 'OPT=${CFLAGS}'"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
-FILES_${PN} = ""
+FILES:${PN} = ""
-FILES_${PN}-doc += "${datadir}/getopt/getopt-*.*"
+FILES:${PN}-doc += "${datadir}/getopt/getopt-*.*"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/libmount/pylibmount.la"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/libmount/pylibmount.la"
-FILES_${PN}-mount = "${sysconfdir}/default/mountall"
+FILES:${PN}-mount = "${sysconfdir}/default/mountall"
-FILES_${PN}-runuser = "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/runuser*"
+FILES:${PN}-runuser = "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/runuser*"
-FILES_${PN}-su = "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/su-l"
+FILES:${PN}-su = "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/su-l"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-su = "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/su-l"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-su = "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/su-l"
-FILES_${PN}-pylibmount = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/libmount/pylibmount.so \
+FILES:${PN}-pylibmount = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/libmount/pylibmount.so \
                          ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/libmount/__init__.* \
                          ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/libmount/__pycache__/*"
 # Util-linux' blkid replaces the e2fsprogs one
-RCONFLICTS_${PN}-blkid = "${MLPREFIX}e2fsprogs-blkid"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN}-blkid = "${MLPREFIX}e2fsprogs-blkid"
-RREPLACES_${PN}-blkid = "${MLPREFIX}e2fsprogs-blkid"
+RREPLACES:${PN}-blkid = "${MLPREFIX}e2fsprogs-blkid"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}:class-native = ""
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_class-nativesdk = ""
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}:class-nativesdk = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-native = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-nativesdk = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-nativesdk = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " util-linux-libuuid"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " util-linux-libuuid"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev += " util-linux-libuuid-dev"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev += " util-linux-libuuid-dev"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-dev = "${PN}-libblkid-dev ${PN}-libmount-dev"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-dev = "${PN}-libblkid-dev ${PN}-libmount-dev"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-bash-completion += "${PN}-lsblk"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-bash-completion += "${PN}-lsblk"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "bash bc btrfs-tools coreutils e2fsprogs findutils grep iproute2 kmod mdadm procps sed socat which xz"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash bc btrfs-tools coreutils e2fsprogs findutils grep iproute2 kmod mdadm procps sed socat which xz"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-ptest += "kernel-module-scsi-debug kernel-module-sd-mod kernel-module-loop"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest += "kernel-module-scsi-debug kernel-module-sd-mod kernel-module-loop"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-swaponoff = "${PN}-swapon ${PN}-swapoff"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-swaponoff = "${PN}-swapon ${PN}-swapoff"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-swaponoff = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-swaponoff = "1"
 #SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}-uuidd ${PN}-fstrim"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-uuidd = "uuidd.socket uuidd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-uuidd = "uuidd.socket uuidd.service"
-SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN}-uuidd = "disable"
+SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:${PN}-uuidd = "disable"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-fstrim = "fstrim.timer fstrim.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-fstrim = "fstrim.timer fstrim.service"
-SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN}-fstrim = "disable"
+SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:${PN}-fstrim = "disable"
 do_install () {
        # with ccache the timestamps on compiled files may
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ do_install () {
        rm -f ${D}${bindir}/chkdupexe
 }
-do_install_append_class-target () {
+do_install:append:class-target () {
        if [ "${@bb.utils.filter('PACKAGECONFIG', 'pam', d)}" ]; then
                install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/pam.d
                install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/runuser.pamd ${D}${sysconfdir}/pam.d/runuser
@@ -194,14 +194,14 @@ do_install_append_class-target () {
 }
 # nologin causes a conflict with shadow-native
 # kill causes a conflict with coreutils-native (if ${bindir}==${base_bindir})
-do_install_append_class-native () {
+do_install:append:class-native () {
        rm -f ${D}${base_sbindir}/nologin
        rm -f ${D}${base_bindir}/kill
 }
 # dm-verity support introduces a circular build dependency, so util-linux-libuuid is split out for target builds
 # Need to build libuuid for uuidgen, but then delete it and let the other recipe ship it
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        rm -rf ${D}${includedir}/uuid ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig/uuid.pc ${D}${libdir}/libuuid* ${D}${base_libdir}/libuuid*
 }
@@ -222,14 +222,14 @@ ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[fsck] = "${base_sbindir}/fsck"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[fsfreeze] = "${sbindir}/fsfreeze"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[fstrim] = "${base_sbindir}/fstrim"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[getopt] = "${base_bindir}/getopt"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-agetty = "getty"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-agetty = "getty"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[getty] = "${base_sbindir}/getty"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[getty] = "${base_sbindir}/agetty"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[hexdump] = "${bindir}/hexdump"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[hwclock] = "${base_sbindir}/hwclock"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[ionice] = "${bindir}/ionice"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[kill] = "${base_bindir}/kill"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-last = "last lastb"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-last = "last lastb"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[last] = "${bindir}/last"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[lastb] = "${bindir}/lastb"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[logger] = "${bindir}/logger"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/volatile-binds/volatile-binds.bb b/meta/recipes-core/volatile-binds/volatile-binds.bb
index 3c8b18291e..5eeb651330 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/volatile-binds/volatile-binds.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/volatile-binds/volatile-binds.bb
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ def volatile_systemd_services(d):
        services.append("%s.service" % what[1:].replace("/", "-"))
    return " ".join(services)
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "${@volatile_systemd_services(d)}"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "${@volatile_systemd_services(d)}"
-FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/*.service ${servicedir}"
+FILES:${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/*.service ${servicedir}"
 do_compile () {
    while read spec mountpoint; do
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.11.bb b/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.11.bb
index ef9431ae47..1c06aa0ab5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.11.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.11.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "4ff941449631ace0d4d203e3483be9dbc9da454084111f97ea0a2114e1
 CFLAGS += "-D_REENTRANT"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make"
 inherit ptest
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ do_install_ptest() {
 # Move zlib shared libraries for target builds to $base_libdir so the library
 # can be used in early boot before $prefix is mounted.
-do_install_append_class-target() {
+do_install:append:class-target() {
        if [ ${base_libdir} != ${libdir} ]
        then
                mkdir -p ${D}/${base_libdir}