83 files changed, 469 insertions, 469 deletions
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/acpica/acpica_20210331.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/acpica/acpica_20210331.bb
index e17bc94c39..35f8ecd85c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/acpica/acpica_20210331.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/acpica/acpica_20210331.bb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/acpica-unix-${PV}"
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "acpixtract acpidump"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "acpixtract acpidump"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "CC='${CC}' \
                OPT_CFLAGS=-Wall \
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ do_install() {
 # iasl*.bb is a subset of this recipe, so RREPLACE it
 PROVIDES = "iasl"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "iasl"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "iasl"
-RREPLACES_${PN} += "iasl"
+RREPLACES:${PN} += "iasl"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "iasl"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} += "iasl"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/asciidoc/asciidoc_9.1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/asciidoc/asciidoc_9.1.0.bb
index 523bf33f42..dd9f8e32c4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/asciidoc/asciidoc_9.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/asciidoc/asciidoc_9.1.0.bb
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ inherit autotools-brokensep
 CLEANBROKEN = "1"
 # target and nativesdk needs python3, but for native we can use the host.
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python3"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "python3"
-RDEPENDS_remove_class-native = "python3"
+RDEPENDS:remove:class-native = "python3"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/at/at_3.2.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/at/at_3.2.2.bb
index 5c2018774c..efe569479b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/at/at_3.2.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/at/at_3.2.2.bb
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ?= "\
 PACKAGECONFIG[selinux] = "--with-selinux,--without-selinux,libselinux,"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '${PAM_DEPS}', '', d)} \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '${PAM_DEPS}', '', d)} \
 "
 PAM_DEPS = "libpam libpam-runtime pam-plugin-env pam-plugin-limits"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "atd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "atd"
-RREPLACES_${PN} = "atd"
+RREPLACES:${PN} = "atd"
 SRC_URI = "http://software.calhariz.com/at/${BPN}_${PV}.orig.tar.gz \
    file://fix_parallel_build_error.patch \
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ inherit autotools-brokensep systemd update-rc.d
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "atd"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "atd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "atd.service"
 copy_sources() {
        cp -f ${WORKDIR}/posixtm.[ch] ${S}
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
index 7350601c65..ca788e1672 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
@@ -22,18 +22,18 @@ CFLAGS += "-DHEREDOC_PIPESIZE=65536"
 # causes a lot of garbage in non-interactive shells
 CFLAGS += "-DBRACKETED_PASTE_DEFAULT=0"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "bash sh"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "bash sh"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[bash] = "${base_bindir}/bash"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[bash] = "${base_bindir}/bash"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sh] = "${base_bindir}/sh"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[sh] = "${base_bindir}/bash.${BPN}"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "base-files"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "base-files"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-nativesdk = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-nativesdk = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make coreutils perl sed shadow util-linux-setpriv"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make coreutils perl sed shadow util-linux-setpriv"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = " \
        glibc-gconv-big5hkscs \
        glibc-gconv-iso8859-1 \
        glibc-utils \
@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = " \
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "headersdir=${includedir}/${PN}"
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
    if [ ! -e ${S}/acinclude.m4 ]; then
       cat ${S}/aclocal.m4 > ${S}/acinclude.m4
    fi
 }
-do_compile_prepend() {
+do_compile:prepend() {
    # Remove any leftover .build files. This ensures that bash always has the
    # same version number and keeps builds reproducible
    rm -f ${B}/.build
@@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ do_compile_ptest () {
        oe_runmake buildtest
 }
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        # Move /usr/bin/bash to /bin/bash, if need
        if [ "${base_bindir}" != "${bindir}" ]; then
                mkdir -p ${D}${base_bindir}
                mv ${D}${bindir}/bash ${D}${base_bindir}
        fi
 }
-do_install_append_class-target () {
+do_install:append:class-target () {
        # Clean buildhost references in bashbug
        sed -i -e "s,--sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET},,g" \
                -e "s,-I${WORKDIR}/\S* ,,g" \
@@ -107,20 +107,20 @@ do_install_ptest () {
 # hash
 do_install_ptest[vardepsexclude] += "UNINATIVE_LOADER"
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
        grep -q "^${base_bindir}/bash$" $D${sysconfdir}/shells || echo ${base_bindir}/bash >> $D${sysconfdir}/shells
 }
-pkg_postrm_${PN} () {
+pkg_postrm:${PN} () {
        printf "$(grep -v "^${base_bindir}/bash$" $D${sysconfdir}/shells)\n" > $D${sysconfdir}/shells
 }
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-bashbug"
-FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/bash ${base_bindir}/bash.bash"
+FILES:${PN} = "${bindir}/bash ${base_bindir}/bash.bash"
-FILES_${PN}-bashbug = "${bindir}/bashbug"
+FILES:${PN}-bashbug = "${bindir}/bashbug"
 PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN += "${PN}-loadable"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-loadable += "${PN}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-loadable += "${PN}"
-FILES_${PN}-loadable += "${libdir}/bash/*"
+FILES:${PN}-loadable += "${libdir}/bash/*"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '/bin/sh /bin/bash', '', d)}"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '/bin/sh /bin/bash', '', d)}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.1.8.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.1.8.bb
index 5d7704af17..9400835b8a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.1.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.1.8.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/bash/${BP}.tar.gz;name=tarball \
 SRC_URI[tarball.sha256sum] = "0cfb5c9bb1a29f800a97bd242d19511c997a1013815b805e0fdd32214113d6be"
-DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION_append_armv4 = " ${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_CCARGS', '-mthumb', '-fomit-frame-pointer', '', d)}"
+DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION:append:armv4 = " ${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_CCARGS', '-mthumb', '-fomit-frame-pointer', '', d)}"
-DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION_append_armv5 = " ${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_CCARGS', '-mthumb', '-fomit-frame-pointer', '', d)}"
+DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION:append:armv5 = " ${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_CCARGS', '-mthumb', '-fomit-frame-pointer', '', d)}"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.07.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.07.1.bb
index ff3e8f4409..37f06b72c2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.07.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.07.1.bb
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline"
 PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--with-readline,--without-readline,readline"
 PACKAGECONFIG[libedit] = "--with-libedit,--without-libedit,libedit"
-do_compile_prepend() {
+do_compile:prepend() {
    cp -f ${WORKDIR}/libmath.h ${B}/bc/libmath.h
 }
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "bc dc"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "bc dc"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
index 70eb67f1f2..296bc68d41 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of
 HOMEPAGE = "https://sourceware.org/bzip2/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "bzip2-1.0.6 & GPLv3+ & Apache-2.0 & MS-PL & BSD-3-Clause & Zlib"
-LICENSE_${PN} = "bzip2-1.0.6"
+LICENSE:${PN} = "bzip2-1.0.6"
-LICENSE_${PN}-dev = "bzip2-1.0.6"
+LICENSE:${PN}-dev = "bzip2-1.0.6"
-LICENSE_${PN}-dbg = "bzip2-1.0.6"
+LICENSE:${PN}-dbg = "bzip2-1.0.6"
-LICENSE_${PN}-doc = "bzip2-1.0.6"
+LICENSE:${PN}-doc = "bzip2-1.0.6"
-LICENSE_${PN}-src = "bzip2-1.0.6"
+LICENSE:${PN}-src = "bzip2-1.0.6"
-LICENSE_libbz2 = "bzip2-1.0.6"
+LICENSE:libbz2 = "bzip2-1.0.6"
-LICENSE_${PN}-ptest = "bzip2-1.0.6 & GPLv3+ & Apache-2.0 & MS-PL & BSD-3-Clause & Zlib"
+LICENSE:${PN}-ptest = "bzip2-1.0.6 & GPLv3+ & Apache-2.0 & MS-PL & BSD-3-Clause & Zlib"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;beginline=4;endline=37;md5=600af43c50f1fcb82e32f19b32df4664 \
                    file://${WORKDIR}/git/commons-compress/LICENSE.txt;md5=86d3f3a95c324c9479bd8986968f4327 \
@@ -36,17 +36,17 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://www.sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/"
 PACKAGES =+ "libbz2"
-CFLAGS_append = " -fPIC -fpic -Winline -fno-strength-reduce -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+CFLAGS:append = " -fPIC -fpic -Winline -fno-strength-reduce -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
 inherit autotools update-alternatives ptest relative_symlinks
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "bunzip2 bzcat bzip2"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "bunzip2 bzcat bzip2"
 #install binaries to bzip2-native under sysroot for replacement-native
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-native = " --bindir=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/${PN}"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:class-native = " --bindir=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/${PN}"
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
    sed -i -e "s|%BZIP2_VERSION%|${PV}|" ${S}/configure.ac
 }
@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ do_install_ptest () {
        sed -i -e "s|^Makefile:|_Makefile:|" ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
 }
-FILES_libbz2 = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:libbz2 = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make bash"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make bash"
-PROVIDES_append_class-native = " bzip2-replacement-native"
+PROVIDES:append:class-native = " bzip2-replacement-native"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/cpio/cpio_2.13.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/cpio/cpio_2.13.bb
index f4df826ed9..20ea3c25e3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/cpio/cpio_2.13.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/cpio/cpio_2.13.bb
@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ do_install () {
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-rmt"
-FILES_${PN}-rmt = "${sbindir}/rmt*"
+FILES:${PN}-rmt = "${sbindir}/rmt*"
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "cpio"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "cpio"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-rmt = "rmt"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-rmt = "rmt"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[cpio] = "${base_bindir}/cpio"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/cracklib/cracklib_2.9.5.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/cracklib/cracklib_2.9.5.bb
index 9cdb71f1a1..c2677184b4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/cracklib/cracklib_2.9.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/cracklib/cracklib_2.9.5.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "/cracklib/(?P<pver>(\d+[\.\-_]*)+)/"
 inherit autotools gettext
-do_install_append_class-target() {
+do_install:append:class-target() {
        create-cracklib-dict -o ${D}${datadir}/cracklib/pw_dict ${D}${datadir}/cracklib/cracklib-small
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/cronie/cronie_1.5.7.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/cronie/cronie_1.5.7.bb
index d0abdd8398..2cbae591b0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/cronie/cronie_1.5.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/cronie/cronie_1.5.7.bb
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ INITSCRIPT_NAME = "crond"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 90 2 3 4 5 . stop 60 0 1 6 ."
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system crontab"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system crontab"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "crond.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "crond.service"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/
        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/
        install -m 0644 ${S}/crond.sysconfig ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/crond
@@ -79,5 +79,5 @@ do_install_append () {
        chmod 600 ${D}${sysconfdir}/crontab
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/cron*"
+FILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/cron*"
-CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/crontab"
+CONFFILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/crontab"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/cups/cups.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/cups/cups.inc
index df23825466..f6f8637a43 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/cups/cups.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/cups/cups.inc
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ CLEANBROKEN = "1"
 inherit autotools-brokensep binconfig useradd systemd pkgconfig multilib_script
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system lpadmin"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system lpadmin"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "cups.socket cups.path cups.service cups-lpd.socket"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "cups.socket cups.path cups.service cups-lpd.socket"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'zeroconf', 'avahi', '', d)} \
                   ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam systemd', d)}"
@@ -91,21 +91,21 @@ do_install () {
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-lib ${PN}-libimage"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', 'procps', '', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', 'procps', '', d)}"
-FILES_${PN} += "${libexecdir}/cups/"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libexecdir}/cups/"
-FILES_${PN}-lib = "${libdir}/libcups.so.*"
+FILES:${PN}-lib = "${libdir}/libcups.so.*"
-FILES_${PN}-libimage = "${libdir}/libcupsimage.so.*"
+FILES:${PN}-libimage = "${libdir}/libcupsimage.so.*"
 #package the html for the webgui inside the main packages (~1MB uncompressed)
-FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/doc/cups/images \
+FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/doc/cups/images \
                ${datadir}/doc/cups/*html \
                ${datadir}/doc/cups/*.css \
                ${datadir}/icons/ \
               "
-CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/cups/cupsd.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/cups/cupsd.conf"
 MULTILIB_SCRIPTS = "${PN}-dev:${bindir}/cups-config"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils.inc
index c9e3130587..194d6e5a1b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils.inc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SECTION = "base"
 inherit autotools texinfo update-alternatives gettext
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "diff cmp"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "diff cmp"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils_3.7.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils_3.7.bb
index b9a54fea54..7b4ae160f9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils_3.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils_3.7.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ acpaths = "-I ./m4"
 inherit ptest
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make perl"
 do_install_ptest() {
        t=${D}${PTEST_PATH}
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_5.13.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_5.13.bb
index 8f6a7904a2..3c99debc99 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_5.13.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_5.13.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/"
 inherit autotools ptest bash-completion pkgconfig
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make"
 PACKAGECONFIG ?= "netlink"
 PACKAGECONFIG[netlink] = "--enable-netlink,--disable-netlink,libmnl,"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils.inc
index 9aa7239825..ea8a1b7afe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils.inc
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.xz"
 inherit autotools gettext texinfo update-alternatives
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "find xargs"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "find xargs"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.1.0.bb
index ae897be62e..3c801e8bcc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.1.0.bb
@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "03a0360edcd84bec156fe211bbc4fc8c78790973ce4e8b990a11d778d4
 inherit autotools gettext texinfo update-alternatives
-FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/awk"
+FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/awk"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/${BPN}/*.la"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/${BPN}/*.la"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "awk"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "awk"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[awk] = "${bindir}/gawk"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        # remove the link since we don't package it
        rm ${D}${bindir}/awk
 }
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ do_install_ptest() {
        sed -i -e "s|GAWKLOCALE|LANG|g" ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/Maketests
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = "\
     locale-base-en-us.iso-8859-1 \
 "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ghostscript/ghostscript_9.54.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/ghostscript/ghostscript_9.54.0.bb
index 81f8d615ae..59cc560cf8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ghostscript/ghostscript_9.54.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ghostscript/ghostscript_9.54.0.bb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=70dc2bac4d0ce4448da873cd86b123fc"
 DEPENDS = "ghostscript-native tiff jpeg fontconfig cups libpng"
-DEPENDS_class-native = "libpng-native"
+DEPENDS:class-native = "libpng-native"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)\.tar"
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${SRC_URI_BASE} \
           file://cups-no-gcrypt.patch \
           "
-SRC_URI_class-native = "${SRC_URI_BASE} \
+SRC_URI:class-native = "${SRC_URI_BASE} \
                        file://ghostscript-9.21-native-fix-disable-system-libtiff.patch \
                        file://base-genht.c-add-a-preprocessor-define-to-allow-fope.patch \
                        "
@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0646bb97f6f4d10a763f4919c54fa28b4fbdd3dff8e7de3410431c8176
 # Put something like
 #
-#   PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-ghostscript = " x11"
+#   PACKAGECONFIG:append:pn-ghostscript = " x11"
 #
 # in local.conf to enable building with X11.  Be careful.  The order
 # of the overrides matters!
 #
 #PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', 'x11', '', d)}"
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-native = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-native = ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[x11] = "--with-x --x-includes=${STAGING_INCDIR} --x-libraries=${STAGING_LIBDIR}, \
                      --without-x, virtual/libx11 libxext libxt gtk+3\
@@ -68,11 +68,11 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--without-libpaper --with-system-libtiff --without-jbig2dec \
                CUPSCONFIG="${STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS}/cups-config" \
                "
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_mipsarcho32 = " --with-large_color_index=0"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:mipsarcho32 = " --with-large_color_index=0"
 # Explicity disable libtiff, fontconfig,
 # freetype, cups for ghostscript-native
-EXTRA_OECONF_class-native = "--without-x --with-system-libtiff=no \
+EXTRA_OECONF:class-native = "--without-x --with-system-libtiff=no \
                             --without-jbig2dec --without-libpaper \
                             --with-fontpath=${datadir}/fonts \
                             --without-libidn --disable-fontconfig \
@@ -86,11 +86,11 @@ BUILD_CFLAGS += "-DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1"
 inherit autotools-brokensep
-do_configure_prepend_class-target () {
+do_configure:prepend:class-target () {
        rm -rf ${S}/jpeg/
 }
-do_configure_append () {
+do_configure:append () {
        # copy tools from the native ghostscript build
        if [ "${PN}" != "ghostscript-native" ]; then
                mkdir -p obj/aux soobj
@@ -100,20 +100,20 @@ do_configure_append () {
        fi
 }
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    mkdir -p ${D}${datadir}/ghostscript/${PV}/
    cp -r ${S}/Resource ${D}${datadir}/ghostscript/${PV}/
    cp -r ${S}/iccprofiles ${D}${datadir}/ghostscript/${PV}/
 }
-do_compile_class-native () {
+do_compile:class-native () {
    mkdir -p obj
    for i in genarch genconf mkromfs echogs gendev genht packps; do
        oe_runmake obj/aux/$i
    done
 }
-do_install_class-native () {
+do_install:class-native () {
    install -d ${D}${bindir}/ghostscript-${PV}
    for i in genarch genconf mkromfs echogs gendev genht packps; do
        install -m 755 obj/aux/$i ${D}${bindir}/ghostscript-${PV}/$i
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/go-helloworld_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/go-helloworld_0.1.bb
index c51f163e9b..aeff482f3b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/go-helloworld_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/go-helloworld_0.1.bb
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ export GO111MODULE="off"
 inherit go
 # This is just to make clear where this example is
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    mv ${D}${bindir}/hello ${D}${bindir}/${BPN}
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_3.6.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_3.6.bb
index c17b96d7bd..750575ec22 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_3.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_3.6.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ inherit autotools gettext texinfo pkgconfig
 # Fix "Argument list too long" error when len(TMPDIR) = 410
 acpaths = "-I ./m4"
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
        sed -i -e '1s,#!@SHELL@,#!/bin/sh,' ${S}/src/egrep.sh
        rm -f ${S}/m4/init.m4
 }
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[pcre] = "--enable-perl-regexp,--disable-perl-regexp,libpcre"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "grep egrep fgrep"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "grep egrep fgrep"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[grep] = "${base_bindir}/grep"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[egrep] = "${base_bindir}/egrep"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[fgrep] = "${base_bindir}/fgrep"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff_1.22.4.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff_1.22.4.bb
index f0e9eb6a8a..d0b543ab6e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff_1.22.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff_1.22.4.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "e78e7b4cb7dec310849004fa88847c44701e8d133b5d4c13057d876c1b
 PR = "r1"
 DEPENDS = "bison-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl sed"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl sed"
 inherit autotools-brokensep texinfo multilib_script pkgconfig
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PERL='/usr/bin/env perl' ac_cv_path_BASH_PRO
 # Delete these generated files since we depend on bison-native
 # and regenerate them. Do it deterministically (always).
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
        rm -f ${S}/src/preproc/eqn/eqn.cpp
        rm -f ${S}/src/preproc/eqn/eqn.hpp
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        # Some distros have both /bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl, but we set perl location
        # for target as /usr/bin/perl, so fix it to /usr/bin/perl.
        for i in afmtodit mmroff gropdf pdfmom grog; do
@@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ do_install_append() {
        rm -rf ${D}${mandir}/man1/grap2graph*
 }
-do_install_append_class-native() {
+do_install:append:class-native() {
        create_cmdline_wrapper ${D}/${bindir}/groff \
                -F${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${datadir_native}/groff/${PV}/font \
                -M${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${datadir_native}/groff/${PV}/tmac
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/${BPN}/site-tmac \
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/${BPN}/site-tmac \
                ${libdir}/${BPN}/groffer/"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
index 04f8f95dd5..15fd665ac8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ SECTION = "console/utils"
 inherit autotools texinfo
 export DEFS="NO_ASM"
-EXTRA_OEMAKE_class-target = "GREP=${base_bindir}/grep"
+EXTRA_OEMAKE:class-target = "GREP=${base_bindir}/grep"
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_libc-musl = " gl_cv_func_fflush_stdin=yes "
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:libc-musl = " gl_cv_func_fflush_stdin=yes "
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        if [ "${base_bindir}" != "${bindir}" ]; then
                # Rename and move files into /bin (FHS), which is typical place for gzip
                install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ do_install_append () {
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "gunzip gzip zcat"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "gunzip gzip zcat"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[gunzip] = "${base_bindir}/gunzip"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[gzip] = "${base_bindir}/gzip"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[zcat] = "${base_bindir}/zcat"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip_1.10.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip_1.10.bb
index 9778e687e1..120e1d4580 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip_1.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip_1.10.bb
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gzip/${BP}.tar.gz \
           file://run-ptest \
          "
-SRC_URI_append_class-target = " file://wrong-path-fix.patch"
+SRC_URI:append:class-target = " file://wrong-path-fix.patch"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
                    file://gzip.h;beginline=8;endline=20;md5=6e47caaa630e0c8bf9f1bc8d94a8ed0e"
-PROVIDES_append_class-native = " gzip-replacement-native"
+PROVIDES:append:class-native = " gzip-replacement-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make perl grep diffutils"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make perl grep diffutils"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/hdparm/hdparm_9.62.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/hdparm/hdparm_9.62.bb
index 026772351d..3d4081c2b3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/hdparm/hdparm_9.62.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/hdparm/hdparm_9.62.bb
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ and manipulating various IDE drive and driver parameters."
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "BSD & GPLv2"
-LICENSE_${PN} = "BSD"
+LICENSE:${PN} = "BSD"
-LICENSE_${PN}-dbg = "BSD"
+LICENSE:${PN}-dbg = "BSD"
-LICENSE_wiper = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE:wiper = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.TXT;md5=495d03e50dc6c89d6a30107ab0df5b03 \
                    file://debian/copyright;md5=a82d7ba3ade9e8ec902749db98c592f3 \
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.TXT;md5=495d03e50dc6c89d6a30107ab0df5b03 \
 PACKAGES =+ "wiper"
-FILES_wiper = "${bindir}/wiper.sh"
+FILES:wiper = "${bindir}/wiper.sh"
-RDEPENDS_wiper = "bash gawk coreutils"
+RDEPENDS:wiper = "bash gawk coreutils"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/hdparm/${BP}.tar.gz \
           file://wiper.sh-fix-stat-path.patch \
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE = 'STRIP="echo" LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"'
 inherit update-alternatives
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "hdparm"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "hdparm"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[hdparm] = "${base_sbindir}/hdparm"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-kernel-dev.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-kernel-dev.bb
index 4d16da1ea8..4018af7a3a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-kernel-dev.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-kernel-dev.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "${KERNEL_DEV_MODULE} \
                            "
 # We need extra space for things like kernel builds, etc.
-IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE_append = " + 3000000"
+IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE:append = " + 3000000"
 # Let's define our own subset to test, we can later add a on-target kernel build even!
 DEFAULT_TEST_SUITES = "ping ssh df connman syslog scp date parselogs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/iptables/iptables_1.8.7.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/iptables/iptables_1.8.7.bb
index 621f87ff87..93af96b77d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/iptables/iptables_1.8.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/iptables/iptables_1.8.7.bb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://netfilter.org/projects/iptables/files/iptables-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
           "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c109c96bb04998cd44156622d36f8e04b140701ec60531a10668cfdff5e8d8f0"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "\
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "\
    iptables.service \
    ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'ipv6', 'ip6tables.service', '', d)} \
 "
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[libnfnetlink] = "--enable-libnfnetlink,--disable-libnfnetlink,libn
 # libnftnl recipe is in meta-networking layer(previously known as libnftables)
 PACKAGECONFIG[libnftnl] = "--enable-nftables,--disable-nftables,libnftnl"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    # Remove some libtool m4 files
    # Keep ax_check_linker_flags.m4 which belongs to autoconf-archive.
    rm -f libtool.m4 lt~obsolete.m4 ltoptions.m4 ltsugar.m4 ltversion.m4
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ do_configure_prepend() {
 IPTABLES_RULES_DIR ?= "${sysconfdir}/${BPN}"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${IPTABLES_RULES_DIR}
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/iptables.rules ${D}${IPTABLES_RULES_DIR}
@@ -70,15 +70,15 @@ do_install_append() {
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-modules ${PN}-apply"
 PACKAGES_DYNAMIC += "^${PN}-module-.*"
-python populate_packages_prepend() {
+python populate_packages:prepend() {
    modules = do_split_packages(d, '${libdir}/xtables', r'lib(.*)\.so$', '${PN}-module-%s', '${PN} module %s', extra_depends='')
    if modules:
        metapkg = d.getVar('PN') + '-modules'
-        d.appendVar('RDEPENDS_' + metapkg, ' ' + ' '.join(modules))
+        d.appendVar('RDEPENDS:' + metapkg, ' ' + ' '.join(modules))
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "${PN}-module-xt-standard"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "${PN}-module-xt-standard"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = " \
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = " \
    ${PN}-modules \
    kernel-module-x-tables \
    kernel-module-ip-tables \
@@ -95,16 +95,16 @@ RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = " \
    ', '', d)} \
 "
-FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/xtables"
+FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/xtables"
-FILES_${PN}-apply = "${sbindir}/ip*-apply"
+FILES:${PN}-apply = "${sbindir}/ip*-apply"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-apply = "${PN} bash"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-apply = "${PN} bash"
 # Include the symlinks as well in respective packages
-FILES_${PN}-module-xt-conntrack += "${libdir}/xtables/libxt_state.so"
+FILES:${PN}-module-xt-conntrack += "${libdir}/xtables/libxt_state.so"
-FILES_${PN}-module-xt-ct += "${libdir}/xtables/libxt_NOTRACK.so"
+FILES:${PN}-module-xt-ct += "${libdir}/xtables/libxt_NOTRACK.so"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-modules = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-modules = "1"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-module-xt-conntrack = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-module-xt-conntrack = "dev-so"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-module-xt-ct = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-module-xt-ct = "dev-so"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/iputils/iputils_20210202.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/iputils/iputils_20210202.bb
index 02a303782e..b8596ddf6a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/iputils/iputils_20210202.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/iputils/iputils_20210202.bb
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ EXTRA_OEMESON += "--prefix=${root_prefix}/"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-ping = "ping"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-ping = "ping"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[ping] = "${base_bindir}/ping"
 SPLITPKGS = "${PN}-ping ${PN}-arping ${PN}-tracepath ${PN}-clockdiff ${PN}-rdisc \
@@ -51,21 +51,21 @@ SPLITPKGS = "${PN}-ping ${PN}-arping ${PN}-tracepath ${PN}-clockdiff ${PN}-rdisc
             ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ipv6', '${PN}-traceroute6 ${PN}-ninfod', '', d)}"
 PACKAGES += "${SPLITPKGS}"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${SPLITPKGS}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${SPLITPKGS}"
-FILES_${PN} = ""
+FILES:${PN} = ""
-FILES_${PN}-ping = "${base_bindir}/ping.${BPN}"
+FILES:${PN}-ping = "${base_bindir}/ping.${BPN}"
-FILES_${PN}-arping = "${base_bindir}/arping"
+FILES:${PN}-arping = "${base_bindir}/arping"
-FILES_${PN}-tracepath = "${base_bindir}/tracepath"
+FILES:${PN}-tracepath = "${base_bindir}/tracepath"
-FILES_${PN}-traceroute6 = "${base_bindir}/traceroute6"
+FILES:${PN}-traceroute6 = "${base_bindir}/traceroute6"
-FILES_${PN}-clockdiff = "${base_bindir}/clockdiff"
+FILES:${PN}-clockdiff = "${base_bindir}/clockdiff"
-FILES_${PN}-tftpd = "${base_bindir}/tftpd ${sysconfdir}/xinetd.d/tftp"
+FILES:${PN}-tftpd = "${base_bindir}/tftpd ${sysconfdir}/xinetd.d/tftp"
-FILES_${PN}-rarpd = "${base_sbindir}/rarpd  ${systemd_unitdir}/system/rarpd@.service"
+FILES:${PN}-rarpd = "${base_sbindir}/rarpd  ${systemd_unitdir}/system/rarpd@.service"
-FILES_${PN}-rdisc = "${base_sbindir}/rdisc"
+FILES:${PN}-rdisc = "${base_sbindir}/rdisc"
-FILES_${PN}-ninfod = "${base_sbindir}/ninfod ${sysconfdir}/init.d/ninfod.sh"
+FILES:${PN}-ninfod = "${base_sbindir}/ninfod ${sysconfdir}/init.d/ninfod.sh"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ipv6', '${PN}-ninfod', '', d)} \
                    ${PN}-rdisc"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-ninfod = "ninfod.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-ninfod = "ninfod.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-rdisc = "rdisc.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-rdisc = "rdisc.service"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_590.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_590.bb
index 82a2312642..5d0d0a5afe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_590.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_590.bb
@@ -38,5 +38,5 @@ do_install () {
        oe_runmake 'bindir=${D}${bindir}' 'mandir=${D}${mandir}' install
 }
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "less"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "less"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.5.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.5.1.bb
index ebecee1f3e..7d98e573b8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.5.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libarchive/libarchive_3.5.1.bb
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ DEPENDS = "e2fsprogs-native"
 PACKAGECONFIG ?= "zlib bz2 xz lzo zstd"
-PACKAGECONFIG_append_class-target = "\
+PACKAGECONFIG:append:class-target = "\
        ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'acl xattr', d)} \
 "
 DEPENDS_BZIP2 = "bzip2-replacement-native"
-DEPENDS_BZIP2_class-target = "bzip2"
+DEPENDS_BZIP2:class-target = "bzip2"
 PACKAGECONFIG[acl] = "--enable-acl,--disable-acl,acl,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[xattr] = "--enable-xattr,--disable-xattr,attr,"
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ inherit autotools update-alternatives pkgconfig
 CPPFLAGS += "-I${WORKDIR}/extra-includes"
 do_configure[cleandirs] += "${WORKDIR}/extra-includes"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
        # We just need the headers for some type constants, so no need to
        # build all of e2fsprogs for the target
        cp -R ${STAGING_INCDIR_NATIVE}/ext2fs ${WORKDIR}/extra-includes/
@@ -50,16 +50,16 @@ do_configure_prepend() {
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "80"
 PACKAGES =+ "bsdtar"
-FILES_bsdtar = "${bindir}/bsdtar"
+FILES:bsdtar = "${bindir}/bsdtar"
-ALTERNATIVE_bsdtar = "tar"
+ALTERNATIVE:bsdtar = "tar"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[tar] = "${base_bindir}/tar"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[tar] = "${bindir}/bsdtar"
 PACKAGES =+ "bsdcpio"
-FILES_bsdcpio = "${bindir}/bsdcpio"
+FILES:bsdcpio = "${bindir}/bsdcpio"
-ALTERNATIVE_bsdcpio = "cpio"
+ALTERNATIVE:bsdcpio = "cpio"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[cpio] = "${base_bindir}/cpio"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[cpio] = "${bindir}/bsdcpio"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn2_2.3.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn2_2.3.1.bb
index d33d6a7dab..07781940af 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn2_2.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn2_2.3.1.bb
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-rpath \
                 --with-libunistring-prefix=${STAGING_EXECPREFIXDIR} \
                 "
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        # Need to remove any duplicate whitespace too for reproducibility
        sed -i -e 's|-L${STAGING_LIBDIR}||' -e 's/  */ /g' ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig/libidn2.pc
 }
-LICENSE_${PN} = "(GPLv2+ | LGPLv3)"
+LICENSE:${PN} = "(GPLv2+ | LGPLv3)"
-LICENSE_${PN}-bin = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-bin = "GPLv3+"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libnss-nis/libnss-nis.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libnss-nis/libnss-nis.bb
index a1d914e871..34103428e9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/libnss-nis/libnss-nis.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libnss-nis/libnss-nis.bb
@@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ BBCLASSEXTEND += "native nativesdk"
 #
 # We will skip parsing this packagegeoup for non-glibc systems
 #
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_libc-musl = 'null'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = 'null'
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libsolv/libsolv_0.7.19.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libsolv/libsolv_0.7.19.bb
index 0c69636323..bb925073ed 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/libsolv/libsolv_0.7.19.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libsolv/libsolv_0.7.19.bb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = "-DMULTI_SEMANTICS=ON -DENABLE_COMPLEX_DEPS=ON"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-tools ${PN}ext"
-FILES_${PN}-tools = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-tools = "${bindir}/*"
-FILES_${PN}ext = "${libdir}/${PN}ext.so.*"
+FILES:${PN}ext = "${libdir}/${PN}ext.so.*"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libtirpc/libtirpc_1.3.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libtirpc/libtirpc_1.3.2.bb
index b666263280..45b3d2befc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/libtirpc/libtirpc_1.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libtirpc/libtirpc_1.3.2.bb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-gssapi"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        chown root:root ${D}${sysconfdir}/netconfig
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.59.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.59.bb
index cf7f478915..f97c5913b8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.59.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.59.bb
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=e4dac5c6ab169aa212feb5028853a579"
 SECTION = "net"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "lighttpd-module-dirlisting \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "lighttpd-module-dirlisting \
                  lighttpd-module-indexfile \
                  lighttpd-module-staticfile"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "lighttpd-module-access \
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "lighttpd-module-access \
                     lighttpd-module-accesslog"
 SRC_URI = "http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/releases-1.4.x/lighttpd-${PV}.tar.xz \
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig update-rc.d gettext systemd
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "lighttpd"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults 70"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "lighttpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "lighttpd.service"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d ${D}${sysconfdir}/lighttpd ${D}${sysconfdir}/lighttpd.d ${D}/www/pages/dav
        install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/lighttpd ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/lighttpd.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/lighttpd
@@ -71,13 +71,13 @@ do_install_append() {
        ln -sf ${localstatedir}/tmp ${D}/www/var
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir} /www"
+FILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir} /www"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf"
 PACKAGES_DYNAMIC += "^lighttpd-module-.*"
-python populate_packages_prepend () {
+python populate_packages:prepend () {
    lighttpd_libdir = d.expand('${libdir}')
    do_split_packages(d, lighttpd_libdir, r'^mod_(.*)\.so$', 'lighttpd-module-%s', 'Lighttpd module for %s', extra_depends='')
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.18.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.18.1.bb
index d853f7bec9..bca47872c5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.18.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.18.1.bb
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ?= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'acl selinux', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[acl] = ",,acl"
 PACKAGECONFIG[selinux] = ",,libselinux"
-CONFFILES_${PN} += "${localstatedir}/lib/logrotate.status \
+CONFFILES:${PN} += "${localstatedir}/lib/logrotate.status \
                    ${sysconfdir}/logrotate.conf \
                    ${sysconfdir}/logrotate.d/btmp \
                    ${sysconfdir}/logrotate.d/wtmp"
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ OS_NAME = "Linux"
 inherit autotools systemd
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "\
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "\
    ${BPN}.service \
    ${BPN}.timer \
 "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb-release_1.4.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb-release_1.4.bb
index bafc18fcc0..a3bcaf51c3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb-release_1.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb-release_1.4.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsb/files"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 # lsb_release needs getopt
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_getopt}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_getopt}"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;md5=12da544b1a3a5a1795a21160b49471cf"
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ do_install() {
        echo "DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=\"${DISTRO_NAME} ${DISTRO_VERSION}\"" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/lsb-release
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${base_libdir}"
+FILES:${PN} += "${base_libdir}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20210524.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20210524.bb
index 26fd9ac049..702fa62b66 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20210524.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20210524.bb
@@ -15,18 +15,18 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
 "
 DEPENDS = "attr libaio libcap acl openssl zip-native"
-DEPENDS_append_libc-musl = " fts "
+DEPENDS:append:libc-musl = " fts "
-EXTRA_OEMAKE_append_libc-musl = " LIBC=musl "
+EXTRA_OEMAKE:append:libc-musl = " LIBC=musl "
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_libc-musl = " LIBS=-lfts "
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:libc-musl = " LIBS=-lfts "
 # since ltp contains x86-64 assembler which uses the frame-pointer register,
 # set -fomit-frame-pointer x86-64 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_x86-64 = " -fomit-frame-pointer"
+CFLAGS:append:x86-64 = " -fomit-frame-pointer"
-CFLAGS_append_powerpc64 = " -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__"
+CFLAGS:append:powerpc64 = " -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__"
-CFLAGS_append_mipsarchn64 = " -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__"
+CFLAGS:append:mipsarchn64 = " -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__"
 SRCREV = "0fb171f2beddaf64bd27597577c206c0f892b3cd"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp.git \
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ do_install(){
    sed -e '/^memcg_stress/d' -i ${D}${prefix}/runtest/controllers
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    attr \
    bash \
    bc \
@@ -105,11 +105,11 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
    tar \
 "
-FILES_${PN} += "${prefix}/* ${prefix}/runtest/* ${prefix}/scenario_groups/* ${prefix}/testcases/bin/* ${prefix}/testcases/bin/*/bin/* ${prefix}/testscripts/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/Documentation/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/functional/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/include/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/scripts/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/stress/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/tools/* ${prefix}/testcases/data/nm01/lib.a ${prefix}/lib/libmem.a"
+FILES:${PN} += "${prefix}/* ${prefix}/runtest/* ${prefix}/scenario_groups/* ${prefix}/testcases/bin/* ${prefix}/testcases/bin/*/bin/* ${prefix}/testscripts/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/Documentation/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/functional/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/include/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/scripts/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/stress/* ${prefix}/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/tools/* ${prefix}/testcases/data/nm01/lib.a ${prefix}/lib/libmem.a"
 # Avoid stripping some generated binaries otherwise some of the ltp tests such as ldd01 & nm01 fail
 INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP_FILES = "${prefix}/testcases/bin/nm01 ${prefix}/testcases/bin/ldd01"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "already-stripped staticdev"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} += "already-stripped staticdev"
 remove_broken_musl_sources() {
        [ "${TCLIBC}" = "musl" ] || return 0
@@ -135,4 +135,4 @@ do_patch[postfuncs] += "remove_broken_musl_sources"
 # exist on the running system.  For instance it has specific checks for
 # csh and ksh which are not typically part of OpenEmbedded systems (but
 # can be added via additional layers.)
-SKIP_FILEDEPS_${PN} = '1'
+SKIP_FILEDEPS:${PN} = '1'
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.9.4.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.9.4.bb
index cfa6561769..c4cdbcc3b4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.9.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.9.4.bb
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ SRC_URI = "${SAVANNAH_NONGNU_MIRROR}/man-db/man-db-${PV}.tar.xz \
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b66c99edfad16ad928c889f87cf76380263c1609323c280b3a9e6963fdb16756"
 DEPENDS = "libpipeline gdbm groff-native base-passwd"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "base-passwd"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "base-passwd"
 PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS += "base-passwd"
 # | /usr/src/debug/man-db/2.8.0-r0/man-db-2.8.0/src/whatis.c:939: undefined reference to `_nl_msg_cat_cntr'
-USE_NLS_libc-musl = "no"
+USE_NLS:libc-musl = "no"
 inherit gettext pkgconfig autotools systemd
@@ -31,17 +31,17 @@ do_install() {
        fi
 }
-do_install_append_libc-musl() {
+do_install:append:libc-musl() {
        rm -f ${D}${libdir}/charset.alias
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d"
+FILES:${PN} += "${prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/man-db/libman.so ${libdir}/${BPN}/libmandb.so"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/man-db/libman.so ${libdir}/${BPN}/libmandb.so"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "groff"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "groff"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "less"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "less"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += " man"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += " man"
 def compress_pkg(d):
    if bb.utils.contains("INHERIT", "compress_doc", True, False, d):
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def compress_pkg(d):
             return "xz"
    return ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${@compress_pkg(d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${@compress_pkg(d)}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "man-db.timer man-db.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "man-db.timer man-db.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE ?= "disable"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man-pages/man-pages_5.12.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/man-pages/man-pages_5.12.bb
index a5b2c30305..ed30103ccd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man-pages/man-pages_5.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man-pages/man-pages_5.12.bb
@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ do_install() {
        oe_runmake install prefix=${prefix} DESTDIR=${D}
 }
-# Only deliveres man-pages so FILES_${PN} gets everything
+# Only deliveres man-pages so FILES:${PN} gets everything
-FILES_${PN}-doc = ""
+FILES:${PN}-doc = ""
-FILES_${PN} = "${mandir}/*"
+FILES:${PN} = "${mandir}/*"
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "passwd.5 getspnam.3 crypt.3"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "passwd.5 getspnam.3 crypt.3"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[passwd.5] = "${mandir}/man5/passwd.5"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[getspnam.3] = "${mandir}/man3/getspnam.3"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[crypt.3] = "${mandir}/man3/crypt.3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.26.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.26.bb
index 5c5e6790d8..d5619675ef 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.26.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.26.bb
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=270bbafe360e73f9840bd7981621f9c2"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses glib-2.0 util-linux"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "ncurses-terminfo-base"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "ncurses-terminfo-base"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "ncurses-terminfo"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "ncurses-terminfo"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
           file://0001-mc-replace-perl-w-with-use-warnings.patch \
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[smb] = "--enable-vfs-smb,--disable-vfs-smb,samba,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[sftp] = "--enable-vfs-sftp,--disable-vfs-sftp,libssh2,"
-CFLAGS_append_libc-musl = ' -DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1 '
+CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = ' -DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1 '
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-screen=ncurses --without-gpm-mouse --without-x --disable-configure-args"
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PERL='/usr/bin/env perl'"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PYTHON='/usr/bin/env python'"
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_GREP='/usr/bin/env grep'"
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "mc_cv_have_zipinfo=yes"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        sed -i -e '1s,#!.*perl,#!${bindir}/env perl,' ${D}${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/*
        
        rm ${D}${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/s3+ ${D}${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/uc1541
@@ -39,17 +39,17 @@ do_install_append () {
 PACKAGES =+ "${BPN}-helpers-perl ${BPN}-helpers ${BPN}-fish"
-SUMMARY_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "Midnight Commander Perl-based helper scripts"
+SUMMARY:${BPN}-helpers-perl = "Midnight Commander Perl-based helper scripts"
-FILES_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/a+ ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/apt+ \
+FILES:${BPN}-helpers-perl = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/a+ ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/apt+ \
                             ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/deb ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/deba \
                             ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/debd ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/dpkg+ \
                             ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/mailfs ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/patchfs \ 
                             ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/rpms+ ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/ulib \ 
                             ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/uzip"
-RDEPENDS_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${BPN}-helpers-perl = "perl"
-SUMMARY_${BPN}-helpers = "Midnight Commander shell helper scripts"
+SUMMARY:${BPN}-helpers = "Midnight Commander shell helper scripts"
-FILES_${BPN}-helpers = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/* ${libexecdir}/mc/ext.d/*"
+FILES:${BPN}-helpers = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/* ${libexecdir}/mc/ext.d/*"
-SUMMARY_${BPN}-fish = "Midnight Commander Fish scripts"
+SUMMARY:${BPN}-fish = "Midnight Commander Fish scripts"
-FILES_${BPN}-fish = "${libexecdir}/mc/fish"
+FILES:${BPN}-fish = "${libexecdir}/mc/fish"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_4.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_4.1.bb
index bb77759cf9..062797afe6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_4.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_4.1.bb
@@ -31,23 +31,23 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ab7688842908d3583a704d491956f31324c3a5fc9f6a04653cb75d19f1
 inherit autotools-brokensep ptest systemd
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "mdmonitor.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "mdmonitor.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
-CFLAGS_append_toolchain-clang = " -Wno-error=address-of-packed-member"
+CFLAGS:append:toolchain-clang = " -Wno-error=address-of-packed-member"
 # PPC64 and MIPS64 uses long long for u64 in the kernel, but powerpc's asm/types.h
 # prevents 64-bit userland from seeing this definition, instead defaulting
 # to u64 == long in userspace. Define __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ to get
 # int-ll64.h included
-CFLAGS_append_powerpc64 = ' -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__'
+CFLAGS:append:powerpc64 = ' -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__'
-CFLAGS_append_mipsarchn64 = ' -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__'
+CFLAGS:append:mipsarchn64 = ' -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__'
-CFLAGS_append_mipsarchn32 = ' -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__'
+CFLAGS:append:mipsarchn32 = ' -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__'
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = 'CHECK_RUN_DIR=0 CXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" SYSTEMD_DIR=${systemd_unitdir}/system \
                BINDIR="${base_sbindir}" UDEVDIR="${nonarch_base_libdir}/udev"'
-DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION_append = " -Wno-error"
+DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION:append = " -Wno-error"
 do_compile() {
        oe_runmake SYSROOT="${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}"
@@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ do_install() {
        autotools_do_install
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/
        install -m 644 ${S}/mdadm.conf-example ${D}${sysconfdir}/mdadm.conf
        install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/init.d
        install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/mdadm.init ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/mdmonitor
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        oe_runmake install-systemd DESTDIR=${D}
 }
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ do_install_ptest() {
        done
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "bash e2fsprogs-mke2fs"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash e2fsprogs-mke2fs"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
    coreutils \
    util-linux \
    kernel-module-loop \
@@ -105,4 +105,4 @@ RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
    kernel-module-raid456 \
 "
-FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/*"
+FILES:${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/*"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb
index 9822e86b0e..27feaa8cde 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ do_install(){
 inherit update-alternatives
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "getty"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "getty"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[getty] = "${base_sbindir}/getty"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[getty] = "${base_sbindir}/mingetty"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "10"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/minicom/minicom_2.7.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/minicom/minicom_2.7.1.bb
index 12003ff49e..4f715cbc71 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/minicom/minicom_2.7.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/minicom/minicom_2.7.1.bb
@@ -28,6 +28,6 @@ do_install() {
        for d in doc extras man lib src; do make -C $d DESTDIR=${D} install; done
 }
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "lrzsz"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "lrzsz"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "ncurses-terminfo-base"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "ncurses-terminfo-base"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/msmtp/msmtp_1.8.15.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/msmtp/msmtp_1.8.15.bb
index e85873e90f..bb56a2e347 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/msmtp/msmtp_1.8.15.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/msmtp/msmtp_1.8.15.bb
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ inherit gettext autotools update-alternatives pkgconfig
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--without-libsecret --without-libgsasl --without-libidn"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "sendmail"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "sendmail"
 # /usr/lib/sendmial is required by LSB core test
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}_linuxstdbase = "sendmail usr-lib-sendmail"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}:linuxstdbase = "sendmail usr-lib-sendmail"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[sendmail] = "${bindir}/msmtp"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sendmail] = "${sbindir}/sendmail"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[usr-lib-sendmail] = "${bindir}/msmtp"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/net-tools/net-tools_2.10.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/net-tools/net-tools_2.10.bb
index de4a715971..00caccd4b8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/net-tools/net-tools_2.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/net-tools/net-tools_2.10.bb
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ base_bindir_progs  = "ifconfig netstat route \
    ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'hostname', 'dnsdomainname domainname hostname nisdomainname ypdomainname', '', d)} \
 "
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "${base_sbindir_progs} ${base_bindir_progs}"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "${base_sbindir_progs} ${base_bindir_progs}"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'hostname', 'hostname.1 dnsdomainname.1', '', d)}"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'hostname', 'hostname.1 dnsdomainname.1', '', d)}"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[hostname.1] = "${mandir}/man1/hostname.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[dnsdomainname.1] = "${mandir}/man1/dnsdomainname.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[hostname.1] = "10"
@@ -105,16 +105,16 @@ python __anonymous() {
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
 NETTOOLS_PACKAGES = "${PN}-mii-tool"
-NETTOOLS_PACKAGES_class-native = ""
+NETTOOLS_PACKAGES:class-native = ""
 PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN = "${NETTOOLS_PACKAGES}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${NETTOOLS_PACKAGES}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${NETTOOLS_PACKAGES}"
-FILES_${PN}-mii-tool = "${base_sbindir}/mii-tool"
+FILES:${PN}-mii-tool = "${base_sbindir}/mii-tool"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}_remove = "mii-tool"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}:remove = "mii-tool"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-mii-tool = "mii-tool"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-mii-tool = "mii-tool"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[mii-tool] = "${base_sbindir}/mii-tool"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[mii-tool] = "${base_sbindir}/mii-tool"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/newt/libnewt_0.52.21.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/newt/libnewt_0.52.21.bb
index 88b4cf4a03..84d327ca88 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/newt/libnewt_0.52.21.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/newt/libnewt_0.52.21.bb
@@ -39,20 +39,20 @@ CLEANBROKEN = "1"
 export CPPFLAGS
-PACKAGES_prepend = "whiptail ${PN}-python "
+PACKAGES:prepend = "whiptail ${PN}-python "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-python += "python3-core"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-python += "python3-core"
-FILES_${PN}-python = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-python = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/*"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    sh autogen.sh
 }
-do_compile_prepend() {
+do_compile:prepend() {
    # Make sure the recompile is OK
    rm -f ${B}/.depend
 }
-FILES_whiptail = "${bindir}/whiptail"
+FILES:whiptail = "${bindir}/whiptail"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb
index 1e63da7f16..b17cba4a78 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-base-utils.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_vim ?= "vim-tiny"
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    base-passwd \
    bash \
    bind-utils \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-full-cmdline.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-full-cmdline.bb
index 16c2f9f2aa..14a7bded95 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-full-cmdline.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-full-cmdline.bb
@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ python __anonymous () {
        if mapped:
            oldtaskname = mapped.replace("packagegroup-core", "task-core")
            mapstr = " %s%s %s%s" % (mlprefix, mapped, mlprefix, oldtaskname)
-            d.appendVar("RPROVIDES_%s" % pkg, mapstr)
+            d.appendVar("RPROVIDES:%s" % pkg, mapstr)
-            d.appendVar("RREPLACES_%s" % pkg, mapstr)
+            d.appendVar("RREPLACES:%s" % pkg, mapstr)
-            d.appendVar("RCONFLICTS_%s" % pkg, mapstr)
+            d.appendVar("RCONFLICTS:%s" % pkg, mapstr)
 }
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-full-cmdline = "\
    packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-libs \
    packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-utils \
    packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-extended \
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline = "\
    packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-sys-services \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-libs = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-libs = "\
    glib-2.0 \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-utils = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-utils = "\
    bash \
    acl \
    attr \
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-utils = "\
    util-linux \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-extended = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-extended = "\
    iproute2 \
    iputils \
    iptables \
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-extended = "\
    openssl \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-dev-utils = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-dev-utils = "\
    diffutils \
    m4 \
    make \
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-dev-utils = "\
    "
 VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog ?= "sysklogd"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-initscripts = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-initscripts = "\
    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts} \
    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager} \
    ethtool \
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-initscripts = "\
    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog} \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-multiuser = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-multiuser = "\
    bzip2 \
    cracklib \
    gzip \
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-multiuser = "\
    sudo \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-sys-services = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-core-full-cmdline-sys-services = "\
    at \
    cronie \
    logrotate \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.1.bb
index f0c8caaac2..a349d8ac96 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.1.bb
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--includedir=${includedir}/security \
                --disable-doc \
                --disable-prelude"
-CFLAGS_append = " -fPIC "
+CFLAGS:append = " -fPIC "
 S = "${WORKDIR}/Linux-PAM-${PV}"
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[audit] = "--enable-audit,--disable-audit,audit,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[userdb] = "--enable-db=db,--enable-db=no,db,"
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-runtime ${PN}-xtests"
-FILES_${PN} = "${base_libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:${PN} = "${base_libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${base_libdir}/security/*.la ${base_libdir}/*.la ${base_libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV}"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${base_libdir}/security/*.la ${base_libdir}/*.la ${base_libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV}"
-FILES_${PN}-runtime = "${sysconfdir} ${sbindir} ${systemd_system_unitdir}"
+FILES:${PN}-runtime = "${sysconfdir} ${sbindir} ${systemd_system_unitdir}"
-FILES_${PN}-xtests = "${datadir}/Linux-PAM/xtests"
+FILES:${PN}-xtests = "${datadir}/Linux-PAM/xtests"
 PACKAGES_DYNAMIC += "^${MLPREFIX}pam-plugin-.*"
@@ -62,16 +62,16 @@ def get_multilib_bit(d):
 libpam_suffix = "suffix${@get_multilib_bit(d)}"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${PN}-${libpam_suffix}"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${PN}-${libpam_suffix}"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-runtime += "${PN}-runtime-${libpam_suffix}"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-runtime += "${PN}-runtime-${libpam_suffix}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-runtime = "${PN}-${libpam_suffix} \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-runtime = "${PN}-${libpam_suffix} \
    ${MLPREFIX}pam-plugin-deny-${libpam_suffix} \
    ${MLPREFIX}pam-plugin-permit-${libpam_suffix} \
    ${MLPREFIX}pam-plugin-warn-${libpam_suffix} \
    ${MLPREFIX}pam-plugin-unix-${libpam_suffix} \
    "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-xtests = "${PN}-${libpam_suffix} \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-xtests = "${PN}-${libpam_suffix} \
    ${MLPREFIX}pam-plugin-access-${libpam_suffix} \
    ${MLPREFIX}pam-plugin-debug-${libpam_suffix} \
    ${MLPREFIX}pam-plugin-pwhistory-${libpam_suffix} \
@@ -80,27 +80,27 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}-xtests = "${PN}-${libpam_suffix} \
    bash coreutils"
 # FIXME: Native suffix breaks here, disable it for now
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${PN}-runtime-${libpam_suffix}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${PN}-runtime-${libpam_suffix}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}:class-native = ""
-python populate_packages_prepend () {
+python populate_packages:prepend () {
    def pam_plugin_hook(file, pkg, pattern, format, basename):
        pn = d.getVar('PN')
        libpam_suffix = d.getVar('libpam_suffix')
-        rdeps = d.getVar('RDEPENDS_' + pkg)
+        rdeps = d.getVar('RDEPENDS:' + pkg)
        if rdeps:
            rdeps = rdeps + " " + pn + "-" + libpam_suffix
        else:
            rdeps = pn + "-" + libpam_suffix
-        d.setVar('RDEPENDS_' + pkg, rdeps)
+        d.setVar('RDEPENDS:' + pkg, rdeps)
-        provides = d.getVar('RPROVIDES_' + pkg)
+        provides = d.getVar('RPROVIDES:' + pkg)
        if provides:
            provides = provides + " " + pkg + "-" + libpam_suffix
        else:
            provides = pkg + "-" + libpam_suffix
-        d.setVar('RPROVIDES_' + pkg, provides)
+        d.setVar('RPROVIDES:' + pkg, provides)
    mlprefix = d.getVar('MLPREFIX') or ''
    dvar = d.expand('${WORKDIR}/package')
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ do_install_ptest() {
    fi
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN}() {
+pkg_postinst:${PN}() {
         if [ -z "$D" ] && [ -e /etc/init.d/populate-volatile.sh ] ; then
                 /etc/init.d/populate-volatile.sh update
         fi
@@ -169,12 +169,12 @@ REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "pam"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "nativesdk native"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/common-session"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/common-session"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/common-auth"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/common-auth"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/common-password"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/common-password"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/common-account"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/pam.d/common-account"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/security/limits.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-runtime += "${sysconfdir}/security/limits.conf"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/releases"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/parted/parted_3.4.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/parted/parted_3.4.bb
index d9b3ffb852..8924bdb478 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/parted/parted_3.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/parted/parted_3.4.bb
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ do_install_ptest() {
        sed -e 's| ../parted||' -i $t/tests/*.sh
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = "bash coreutils perl util-linux-losetup util-linux-mkswap python3 make gawk e2fsprogs-mke2fs e2fsprogs-tune2fs python3-core dosfstools"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = "bash coreutils perl util-linux-losetup util-linux-mkswap python3 make gawk e2fsprogs-mke2fs e2fsprogs-tune2fs python3-core dosfstools"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-ptest += "kernel-module-scsi-debug kernel-module-loop kernel-module-vfat"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest += "kernel-module-scsi-debug kernel-module-loop kernel-module-vfat"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = "\
        glibc-utils \
        locale-base-en-us \
        "
@@ -59,5 +59,5 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = "\
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "partprobe"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "partprobe"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[partprobe] = "${sbindir}/partprobe"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/pbzip2/pbzip2_1.1.13.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/pbzip2/pbzip2_1.1.13.bb
index ed21d81179..3fa89dec9a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/pbzip2/pbzip2_1.1.13.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/pbzip2/pbzip2_1.1.13.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LICENSE = "bzip2-1.0.6"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=398b8832c6f840cfebd20ab2be6a3743"
 DEPENDS = "bzip2"
-DEPENDS_append_class-native = " bzip2-replacement-native"
+DEPENDS:append:class-native = " bzip2-replacement-native"
 SRC_URI = "https://launchpad.net/${BPN}/1.1/${PV}/+download/${BP}.tar.gz \
           file://0001-pbzip2-Fix-invalid-suffix-on-literal-C-11-warning.patch \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libconvert-asn1-perl_0.27.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libconvert-asn1-perl_0.27.bb
index 409a8f3896..cdc43b5fb9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libconvert-asn1-perl_0.27.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libconvert-asn1-perl_0.27.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ inherit cpan ptest-perl
 EXTRA_PERLFLAGS = "-I ${PERLHOSTLIB}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-exporter perl-module-constant perl-module-encode perl-module-encode-encoding perl-module-utf8 perl-module-socket perl-module-time-local perl-module-posix"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-exporter perl-module-constant perl-module-encode perl-module-encode-encoding perl-module-utf8 perl-module-socket perl-module-time-local perl-module-posix"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-math-bigint perl-module-io-socket perl-module-data-dumper perl-module-math-bigint-calc"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-math-bigint perl-module-io-socket perl-module-data-dumper perl-module-math-bigint-calc"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libtimedate-perl_2.30.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libtimedate-perl_2.30.bb
index 46843bfc8a..7c5e99063c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libtimedate-perl_2.30.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libtimedate-perl_2.30.bb
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ inherit cpan ptest-perl
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-carp perl-module-exporter perl-module-strict perl-module-time-local"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-carp perl-module-exporter perl-module-strict perl-module-time-local"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-test-more perl-module-utf8"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-test-more perl-module-utf8"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b1d91153ac971347aee84292ed886c1c"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "75bd254871cb5853a6aa0403ac0be270cdd75c9d1b6639f18ecba63c15298e86"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-namespacesupport-perl_1.12.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-namespacesupport-perl_1.12.bb
index 57c407e0f8..03bf0b6ff8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-namespacesupport-perl_1.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-namespacesupport-perl_1.12.bb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}"
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-test-more"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-test-more"
 BBCLASSEXTEND="native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-sax-base-perl_1.09.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-sax-base-perl_1.09.bb
index 2bff65a082..790ff51558 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-sax-base-perl_1.09.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-sax-base-perl_1.09.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ implement the characters() callback."
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-extutils-makemaker"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-extutils-makemaker"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://dist.ini;endline=5;md5=8f9c9a55340aefaee6e9704c88466446"
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/XML-SAX-Base-${PV}"
 inherit cpan ptest-perl
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-test perl-module-test-more"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "perl-module-test perl-module-test-more"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-sax-perl_1.02.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-sax-perl_1.02.bb
index 02ee34ee17..9aa6fd050d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-sax-perl_1.02.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-sax-perl_1.02.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ javaness."
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
 DEPENDS += "libxml-namespacesupport-perl-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-sax-base-perl perl-module-file-temp"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-sax-base-perl perl-module-file-temp"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=65c4cd8f39c24c7135ed70dacbcb09e3"
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ do_install_ptest() {
        chown -R root:root ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testfiles
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl-module-encode perl-module-perlio"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl-module-encode perl-module-perlio"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
    perl-module-base  \
    perl-module-encode-byte \
    perl-module-encode-unicode \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz_2.6.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz_2.6.bb
index 05be9b733f..3566e18b7e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz_2.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/pigz/pigz_2.6.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://pigz.c;md5=9ae6dee8ceba9610596ed0ada493d142;beginline
 SRC_URI = "http://zlib.net/${BPN}/fossils/${BP}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "2eed7b0d7449d1d70903f2a62cd6005d262eb3a8c9e98687bc8cbb5809db2a7d"
-PROVIDES_class-native += "gzip-native"
+PROVIDES:class-native += "gzip-native"
 # Point this at the homepage in case /fossils/ isn't updated
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://zlib.net/${BPN}/"
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ do_install() {
        ln -nsf pigz ${D}${base_bindir}/pigzcat
 }
-do_install_append_class-native() {
+do_install:append:class-native() {
        install -d ${D}${bindir}
        install ${B}/pigz ${D}${bindir}/gzip
        ln -nsf gzip ${D}${bindir}/gunzip
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ do_install_append_class-native() {
 }
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "110"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "gunzip gzip zcat"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "gunzip gzip zcat"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}_class-nativesdk = ""
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}:class-nativesdk = ""
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[gunzip] = "${base_bindir}/gunzip"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[gzip] = "${base_bindir}/gzip"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[zcat] = "${base_bindir}/zcat"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.17.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.17.bb
index c74a901d9a..64a2d154b6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.17.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.17.bb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 # Upstream has a custom autogen.sh which invokes po/update-potfiles as they
 # don't ship a po/POTFILES.in (which is silly).  Without that file gettext
 # doesn't believe po/ is a gettext directory and won't generate po/Makefile.
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    ( cd ${S} && po/update-potfiles )
 }
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-skill --disable-modern-top"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-systemd,--without-systemd,systemd"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
        [ "${bindir}" != "${base_bindir}" ] && for i in ${base_bindir_progs}; do mv ${D}${bindir}/$i ${D}${base_bindir}/$i; done
        install -d ${D}${base_sbindir}
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ do_install_append () {
        fi
 }
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/sysctl.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/sysctl.conf"
 bindir_progs = "free pkill pmap pgrep pwdx skill snice top uptime w"
 base_bindir_progs += "kill pidof ps watch"
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ base_sbindir_progs += "sysctl"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "200"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[pidof] = "150"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "${bindir_progs} ${base_bindir_progs} ${base_sbindir_progs}"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "${bindir_progs} ${base_bindir_progs} ${base_sbindir_progs}"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "kill.1 uptime.1"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "kill.1 uptime.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[kill.1] = "${mandir}/man1/kill.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[uptime.1] = "${mandir}/man1/uptime.1"
@@ -82,22 +82,22 @@ PROCPS_PACKAGES = "${PN}-lib \
                   ${PN}-sysctl"
 PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN = "${PROCPS_PACKAGES}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PROCPS_PACKAGES}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${PROCPS_PACKAGES}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ps += "${PN}-lib"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ps += "${PN}-lib"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-sysctl += "${PN}-lib"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-sysctl += "${PN}-lib"
-FILES_${PN}-lib = "${libdir}"
+FILES:${PN}-lib = "${libdir}"
-FILES_${PN}-ps = "${base_bindir}/ps.${BPN}"
+FILES:${PN}-ps = "${base_bindir}/ps.${BPN}"
-FILES_${PN}-sysctl = "${base_sbindir}/sysctl.${BPN} ${sysconfdir}/sysctl.conf ${sysconfdir}/sysctl.d"
+FILES:${PN}-sysctl = "${base_sbindir}/sysctl.${BPN} ${sysconfdir}/sysctl.conf ${sysconfdir}/sysctl.d"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}_remove = "ps"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}:remove = "ps"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}_remove = "sysctl"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}:remove = "sysctl"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-ps = "ps"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-ps = "ps"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[ps] = "${base_bindir}/ps"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[ps] = "${base_bindir}/ps"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-sysctl = "sysctl"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-sysctl = "sysctl"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[sysctl] = "${base_sbindir}/sysctl"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sysctl] = "${base_sbindir}/sysctl"
 \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/psmisc/psmisc.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/psmisc/psmisc.inc
index 6ab1288152..ad6263ed94 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/psmisc/psmisc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/psmisc/psmisc.inc
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ inherit autotools gettext
 # Upstream has a custom autogen.sh which invokes po/update-potfiles as they 
 # don't ship a po/POTFILES.in (which is silly).  Without that file gettext 
 # doesn't believe po/ is a gettext directory and won't generate po/Makefile.
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    ( cd ${S} && po/update-potfiles )
 }
@@ -27,30 +27,30 @@ do_configure_prepend() {
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ipv6', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[ipv6] = "--enable-ipv6,--disable-ipv6,"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
 PACKAGES =+ "fuser fuser-doc killall killall-doc pstree pstree-doc"
 PACKAGES += "psmisc-extras"
-FILES_${PN} = ""
+FILES:${PN} = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "fuser killall pstree"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "fuser killall pstree"
-FILES_fuser = "${bindir}/fuser.${BPN}"
+FILES:fuser = "${bindir}/fuser.${BPN}"
-FILES_fuser-doc = "${mandir}/man1/fuser*"
+FILES:fuser-doc = "${mandir}/man1/fuser*"
-FILES_killall = "${bindir}/killall.${BPN}"
+FILES:killall = "${bindir}/killall.${BPN}"
-FILES_killall-doc = "${mandir}/man1/killall*"
+FILES:killall-doc = "${mandir}/man1/killall*"
-FILES_pstree = "${bindir}/pstree"
+FILES:pstree = "${bindir}/pstree"
-FILES_pstree-doc = "${mandir}/man1/pstree*"
+FILES:pstree-doc = "${mandir}/man1/pstree*"
-FILES_psmisc-extras = "${bindir}"
+FILES:psmisc-extras = "${bindir}"
-FILES_psmisc-extras-doc = "${mandir}"
+FILES:psmisc-extras-doc = "${mandir}"
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "90"
-ALTERNATIVE_killall = "killall"
+ALTERNATIVE:killall = "killall"
-ALTERNATIVE_fuser = "fuser"
+ALTERNATIVE:fuser = "fuser"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/quota/quota_4.06.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/quota/quota_4.06.bb
index 027b0811f7..5115cb389a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/quota/quota_4.06.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/quota/quota_4.06.bb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ LDFLAGS += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'rpc', '-ltirpc', '', d)}"
 ASNEEDED = ""
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "tcp-wrappers rpc bsd"
-PACKAGECONFIG_libc-musl = "tcp-wrappers rpc"
+PACKAGECONFIG:libc-musl = "tcp-wrappers rpc"
 PACKAGECONFIG[tcp-wrappers] = "--enable-libwrap,--disable-libwrap,tcp-wrappers"
 PACKAGECONFIG[rpc] = "--enable-rpc,--disable-rpc,libtirpc"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/rpcbind/rpcbind_1.2.6.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/rpcbind/rpcbind_1.2.6.bb
index b02638b2ce..e58214d55a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/rpcbind/rpcbind_1.2.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/rpcbind/rpcbind_1.2.6.bb
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[tcp-wrappers] = "--enable-libwrap,--disable-libwrap,tcp-wrappers"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "rpcbind"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 12 2 3 4 5 . stop 60 0 1 6 ."
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "rpcbind.service rpcbind.socket"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "rpcbind.service rpcbind.socket"
 inherit useradd
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system --no-create-home --home-dir / \
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system --no-create-home --home-dir / \
                       --shell /bin/false --user-group rpc"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', d)}"
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-systemdsystemunitdir=${systemd_unitdir}/system/
 EXTRA_OECONF += " --enable-warmstarts --with-rpcuser=rpc"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
        sed -e 's,/etc/,${sysconfdir}/,g' \
                -e 's,/sbin/,${sbindir}/,g' \
@@ -50,5 +50,5 @@ do_install_append () {
        chmod 0755 ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/rpcbind
 }
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "rpcinfo"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "rpcinfo"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[rpcinfo] = "${bindir}/rpcinfo"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/rpcsvc-proto/rpcsvc-proto.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/rpcsvc-proto/rpcsvc-proto.bb
index 5aff2b56a6..678632a814 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/rpcsvc-proto/rpcsvc-proto.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/rpcsvc-proto/rpcsvc-proto.bb
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 inherit autotools gettext
-EXTRA_OEMAKE_class-native = " -C rpcgen"
+EXTRA_OEMAKE:class-native = " -C rpcgen"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
        touch ${S}/ABOUT-NLS
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        # They come from quota recipe
        rm -rf ${D}${includedir}/rpcsvc/rquota.[hx]
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/screen/screen_4.8.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/screen/screen_4.8.0.bb
index fe640c262b..6d307d5abc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/screen/screen_4.8.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/screen/screen_4.8.0.bb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
 DEPENDS = "ncurses virtual/crypt \
          ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'libpam', '', d)}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "base-files"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "base-files"
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/screen/screen-${PV}.tar.gz \
           ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'file://screen.pam', '', d)} \
@@ -35,17 +35,17 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[utempter] = "ac_cv_header_utempter_h=yes,ac_cv_header_utempter_h=n
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-pty-mode=0620 --with-pty-group=5 --with-sys-screenrc=${sysconfdir}/screenrc \
               ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '--enable-pam', '--disable-pam', d)}"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        install -D -m 644 ${S}/etc/etcscreenrc ${D}/${sysconfdir}/screenrc
        if [ "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', d)}" ]; then
                install -D -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/screen.pam ${D}/${sysconfdir}/pam.d/screen
        fi
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
        grep -q "^${bindir}/screen$" $D${sysconfdir}/shells || echo ${bindir}/screen >> $D${sysconfdir}/shells
 }
-pkg_postrm_${PN} () {
+pkg_postrm:${PN} () {
        printf "$(grep -v "^${bindir}/screen$" $D${sysconfdir}/shells)\n" > $D${sysconfdir}/shells
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.8.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.8.bb
index 57a769e8c9..1f68214ae4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.8.bb
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ inherit autotools texinfo update-alternatives gettext ptest
 PACKAGECONFIG[selinux] = "--with-selinux,--without-selinux,libselinux"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make gawk perl perl-module-filehandle perl-module-file-compare perl-module-file-find perl-module-file-temp perl-module-file-stat"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make gawk perl perl-module-filehandle perl-module-file-compare perl-module-file-find perl-module-file-temp perl-module-file-stat"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = " locale-base-ru-ru locale-base-en-us locale-base-el-gr.iso-8859-7"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = " locale-base-ru-ru locale-base-en-us locale-base-el-gr.iso-8859-7"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-acl \
               "
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ do_install () {
        fi
 }
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "sed"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "sed"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sed] = "${base_bindir}/sed"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@ do_install_ptest() {
            -i ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
 }
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '/bin/sed', '', d)}"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'usrmerge', '/bin/sed', '', d)}"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
index 2cbdfbc1cf..a5d77ebfe2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
@@ -16,17 +16,17 @@ SRC_URI = "https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/releases/download/${PV}/${BP}.
           file://shadow-relaxed-usernames.patch \
           "
-SRC_URI_append_class-target = " \
+SRC_URI:append:class-target = " \
           file://login_defs_pam.sed \
           file://shadow-update-pam-conf.patch \
           "
-SRC_URI_append_class-native = " \
+SRC_URI:append:class-native = " \
           file://0001-Disable-use-of-syslog-for-sysroot.patch \
           file://0002-Allow-for-setting-password-in-clear-text.patch \
           file://commonio.c-fix-unexpected-open-failure-in-chroot-env.patch \
           "
-SRC_URI_append_class-nativesdk = " \
+SRC_URI:append:class-nativesdk = " \
           file://0001-Disable-use-of-syslog-for-sysroot.patch \
           "
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "--without-audit \
                 ${NSCDOPT}"
 NSCDOPT = ""
-NSCDOPT_class-native = "--without-nscd"
+NSCDOPT:class-native = "--without-nscd"
-NSCDOPT_class-nativesdk = "--without-nscd"
+NSCDOPT:class-nativesdk = "--without-nscd"
-NSCDOPT_libc-glibc = "--with-nscd"
+NSCDOPT:libc-glibc = "--with-nscd"
 PAM_PLUGINS = "libpam-runtime \
               pam-plugin-faildelay \
@@ -72,21 +72,21 @@ PAM_PLUGINS = "libpam-runtime \
               pam-plugin-shells \
               pam-plugin-rootok"
-PAM_PLUGINS_remove_libc-musl = "pam-plugin-lastlog"
+PAM_PLUGINS:remove:libc-musl = "pam-plugin-lastlog"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', d)} \
                   ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'xattr', 'attr', '', d)}"
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-native ??= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'xattr', 'attr', '', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-native ??= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'xattr', 'attr', '', d)}"
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-nativesdk = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-nativesdk = ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[pam] = "--with-libpam,--without-libpam,libpam,${PAM_PLUGINS}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[attr] = "--with-attr,--without-attr,attr"
 PACKAGECONFIG[acl] = "--with-acl,--without-acl,acl"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "shadow-securetty \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "shadow-securetty \
                  base-passwd \
                  util-linux-sulogin"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-native = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-nativesdk = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-nativesdk = ""
 do_install() {
        oe_runmake DESTDIR="${D}" sbindir="${base_sbindir}" usbindir="${sbindir}" install
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ do_install() {
        sed -i 's,^GROUP=1000,GROUP=100,g' ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/useradd
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        # Ensure that the image has as a /var/spool/mail dir so shadow can
        # put mailboxes there if the user reconfigures shadow to its
        # defaults (see sed below).
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ do_install_append() {
 }
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-base"
-FILES_${PN}-base = "\
+FILES:${PN}-base = "\
    ${base_bindir}/login.shadow \
    ${base_bindir}/su.shadow \
    ${bindir}/sg \
@@ -166,13 +166,13 @@ FILES_${PN}-base = "\
    ${sysconfdir}/pam.d/su \
    ${sysconfdir}/login.defs \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-base"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${PN}-base"
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "200"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "passwd chfn chsh chpasswd vipw vigr nologin"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "passwd chfn chsh chpasswd vipw vigr nologin"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[chfn] = "${bindir}/chfn"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[chsh] = "${bindir}/chsh"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[chpasswd] = "${sbindir}/chpasswd"
@@ -180,11 +180,11 @@ ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[vipw] = "${base_sbindir}/vipw"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[vigr] = "${base_sbindir}/vigr"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[nologin] = "${base_sbindir}/nologin"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-base = "newgrp groups login su"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-base = "newgrp groups login su"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[login] = "${base_bindir}/login"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[su] = "${base_bindir}/su"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "passwd.5 getspnam.3 groups.1 su.1 nologin.8"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "passwd.5 getspnam.3 groups.1 su.1 nologin.8"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[passwd.5] = "${mandir}/man5/passwd.5"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[getspnam.3] = "${mandir}/man3/getspnam.3"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[groups.1] = "${mandir}/man1/groups.1"
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[su.1] = "${mandir}/man1/su.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[nologin.8] = "${mandir}/man8/nologin.8"
 PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS += "shadow-native"
-pkg_postinst_${PN}_class-target () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN}:class-target () {
        if [ "x$D" != "x" ]; then
          rootarg="--root $D"
        else
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.8.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.8.1.bb
index ff4aad926f..2fbd81bf72 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.8.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.8.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require shadow.inc
 # Build falsely assumes that if --enable-libpam is set, we don't need to link against
 # libcrypt. This breaks chsh.
-BUILD_LDFLAGS_append_class-target = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '-lcrypt', '', d)}"
+BUILD_LDFLAGS:append:class-target = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '-lcrypt', '', d)}"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/slang/slang_2.3.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/slang/slang_2.3.2.bb
index 99efb16da6..81d152f000 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/slang/slang_2.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/slang/slang_2.3.2.bb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c2d5a7aa0246627da490be4e399c87cb"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "fc9e3b0fc4f67c3c1f6d43c90c16a5c42d117b8e28457c5b46831b8b5d3ae31a"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://www.jedsoft.org/releases/slang/"
-PREMIRRORS_append = "\n http://www.jedsoft.org/releases/slang/.* http://www.jedsoft.org/releases/slang/old/ \n"
+PREMIRRORS:append = "\n http://www.jedsoft.org/releases/slang/.* http://www.jedsoft.org/releases/slang/old/ \n"
 inherit autotools-brokensep ptest
 CLEANBROKEN = "1"
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[pcre] = "--with-pcre=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix},--without-pcre,p
 PACKAGECONFIG[png] = "--with-png=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix},--without-png,libpng"
 PACKAGECONFIG[zlib] = "--with-z=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix},--without-z,zlib"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    cd ${S}/autoconf
    # slang keeps configure.ac and rest of autoconf files in autoconf/ directory
    # we have to go there to be able to run gnu-configize cause it expects configure.{in,ac}
@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ do_install_ptest() {
        sed -i 's/\.\.\/\.\.\/doc\/text\/slangfun\.txt/slangfun\.txt/' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/docfun.sl
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/${BPN}/v2/modules/ ${datadir}/slsh/"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/${BPN}/v2/modules/ ${datadir}/slsh/"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make"
 PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
 PARALLEL_MAKEINST = ""
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng_0.12.12.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng_0.12.12.bb
index 430eac0d87..32c2d2b6a7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng_0.12.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng_0.12.12.bb
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f27af50f6f2308e707fef927674bdd209a046b116734281b792aeca35a
 DEPENDS = "coreutils-native"
 PROVIDES = "stress"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = "stress"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "stress"
-RREPLACES_${PN} = "stress"
+RREPLACES:${PN} = "stress"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "stress"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "stress"
 inherit bash-completion
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo.inc
index 0bea35a0a3..f109672b7e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo.inc
@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[zlib] = "--enable-zlib,--disable-zlib,zlib"
 PACKAGECONFIG[pam-wheel] = ",,,pam-plugin-wheel"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/sudoers"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/sudoers"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-editor=${base_bindir}/vi --with-env-editor"
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_libc-musl = " --disable-hardening "
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:libc-musl = " --disable-hardening "
 # mksigname/mksiglist are used on build host to generate source files
-do_compile_prepend () {
+do_compile:prepend () {
        # Remove build host references from sudo_usage.h
        sed -i  \
            -e 's,--with-libtool-sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET},,g' \
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ do_compile_prepend () {
 # script (from sudo) will recursively create ${localstatedir}/lib/sudo
 # and then chmod each directory with 0700 permissions, which isn't what
 # we want (i.e, users would not be able to access /var/lib).
-do_install_prepend (){
+do_install:prepend (){
        mkdir -p ${D}/${localstatedir}/lib
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo_1.9.7p1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo_1.9.7p1.bb
index aba6f4a595..8d47c01706 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo_1.9.7p1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo_1.9.7p1.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ PAM_SRC_URI = "file://sudo.pam"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "391431f454e55121b60c6ded0fcf30ddb80d623d7d16a6d1907cfa6a0b91d8cf"
 DEPENDS += " virtual/crypt ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'libpam', '', d)}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'pam-plugin-limits pam-plugin-keyinit', '', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'pam-plugin-limits pam-plugin-keyinit', '', d)}"
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS = " \
        ac_cv_type_rsize_t=no \
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += " \
             --libexecdir=${libdir} \
             "
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        if [ "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', d)}" ]; then
                install -D -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/sudo.pam ${D}/${sysconfdir}/pam.d/sudo
                if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'pam-wheel', 'true', 'false', d)} ; then
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ do_install_append () {
        rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty ${D}/run/sudo
 }
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/${BPN}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} ${libdir}/${BPN}/*.la \
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/${BPN}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} ${libdir}/${BPN}/*.la \
                    ${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} ${libdir}/*.la"
 SUDO_PACKAGES = "${PN}-sudo\
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ SUDO_PACKAGES = "${PN}-sudo\
 PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN = "${SUDO_PACKAGES}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-sudo = "${PN}-lib"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-sudo = "${PN}-lib"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${SUDO_PACKAGES}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${SUDO_PACKAGES}"
-FILES_${PN}-sudo = "${bindir}/sudo ${bindir}/sudoedit"
+FILES:${PN}-sudo = "${bindir}/sudo ${bindir}/sudoedit"
-FILES_${PN}-lib = "${localstatedir} ${libexecdir} ${sysconfdir} ${libdir} ${nonarch_libdir}"
+FILES:${PN}-lib = "${localstatedir} ${libexecdir} ${sysconfdir} ${libdir} ${nonarch_libdir}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd_2.2.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd_2.2.3.bb
index be34ec7b38..eca531d05d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd_2.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd_2.2.3.bb
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-systemd=${systemd_system_unitdir} --without-logger"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
       install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}
       install -m 644 ${S}/syslog.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/syslog.conf
       install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
@@ -28,21 +28,21 @@ do_install_append () {
 }
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "syslogd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "syslogd.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "enable"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "syslog"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/syslog.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/syslog.conf"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "rsyslog busybox-syslog syslog-ng"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "rsyslog busybox-syslog syslog-ng"
-FILES_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','${exec_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/sysklogd.conf', '', d)}"
+FILES:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','${exec_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/sysklogd.conf', '', d)}"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "syslogd.8"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "syslogd.8"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[syslogd.8] = "${mandir}/man8/syslogd.8"
-pkg_prerm_${PN} () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN} () {
        if test "x$D" = "x"; then
        if test "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove"; then
                /etc/init.d/syslog stop || :
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sysstat/sysstat.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/sysstat/sysstat.inc
index f97b88d493..14c6f07784 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/sysstat/sysstat.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sysstat/sysstat.inc
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-systemdsystemunitdir=${systemd_system_unitdir}"
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-stripping"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "sysstat.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "sysstat.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "enable"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    export sa_lib_dir=${libexecdir}/sa
 }
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ do_install() {
        fi
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
        if [  ! -n "$D" ]; then
                if [ -e /etc/init.d/populate-volatile.sh ]; then
                        /etc/init.d/populate-volatile.sh update
@@ -66,6 +66,6 @@ pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
        fi
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_system_unitdir} ${nonarch_base_libdir}/systemd"
+FILES:${PN} += "${systemd_system_unitdir} ${nonarch_base_libdir}/systemd"
 TARGET_CC_ARCH += "${LDFLAGS}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb
index af04919c41..c096a8c9a8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b44cc67f8a1f6b0250b7c860e952b37e8ed932a90bd9b1862a51107925
 inherit autotools gettext texinfo
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
-PACKAGECONFIG_append_class-target = " ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'acl', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG:append:class-target = " ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'acl', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[acl] = "--with-posix-acls,--without-posix-acls,acl"
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ do_install () {
    ln -s tar ${D}${bindir}/gtar
 }
-do_install_append_class-target() {
+do_install:append:class-target() {
    if [ "${base_bindir}" != "${bindir}" ]; then
        install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
        mv ${D}${bindir}/tar ${D}${base_bindir}/tar
@@ -43,21 +43,21 @@ do_install_append_class-target() {
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-rmt"
-FILES_${PN}-rmt = "${sbindir}/rmt*"
+FILES:${PN}-rmt = "${sbindir}/rmt*"
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "tar"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "tar"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-rmt = "rmt"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-rmt = "rmt"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}_class-nativesdk = ""
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}:class-nativesdk = ""
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-rmt_class-nativesdk = ""
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-rmt:class-nativesdk = ""
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[tar] = "${base_bindir}/tar"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[rmt] = "${sbindir}/rmt"
-PROVIDES_append_class-native = " tar-replacement-native"
+PROVIDES:append:class-native = " tar-replacement-native"
 NATIVE_PACKAGE_PATH_SUFFIX = "/${PN}"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb
index e903b9db14..814d7fd913 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ PR ="r10"
 DEPENDS += "libnsl2"
 PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg libwrap libwrap-doc libwrap-dev libwrap-staticdev ${PN} ${PN}-doc"
-FILES_libwrap = "${base_libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:libwrap = "${base_libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
-FILES_libwrap-doc = "${mandir}/man3 ${mandir}/man5"
+FILES:libwrap-doc = "${mandir}/man3 ${mandir}/man5"
-FILES_libwrap-dev = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} ${includedir}"
+FILES:libwrap-dev = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} ${includedir}"
-FILES_libwrap-staticdev = "${libdir}/lib*.a"
+FILES:libwrap-staticdev = "${libdir}/lib*.a"
-FILES_${PN} = "${sbindir}"
+FILES:${PN} = "${sbindir}"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = "${mandir}/man8"
+FILES:${PN}-doc = "${mandir}/man8"
 SRC_URI = "http://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://00_man_quoting.diff \
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE = "'CC=${CC}' \
                'EXTRA_CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -DSYS_ERRLIST_DEFINED -DHAVE_STRERROR -DHAVE_WEAKSYMS -D_REENTRANT -DINET6=1 -Dss_family=__ss_family -Dss_len=__ss_len'"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE_NETGROUP = "-DNETGROUP -DUSE_GETDOMAIN"
-EXTRA_OEMAKE_NETGROUP_libc-musl = "-DUSE_GETDOMAIN"
+EXTRA_OEMAKE_NETGROUP:libc-musl = "-DUSE_GETDOMAIN"
-EXTRA_OEMAKE_append_libc-musl = " 'LIBS='"
+EXTRA_OEMAKE:append:libc-musl = " 'LIBS='"
 do_compile () {
        oe_runmake 'TABLES=-DHOSTS_DENY=\"${sysconfdir}/hosts.deny\" -DHOSTS_ALLOW=\"${sysconfdir}/hosts.allow\"' \
@@ -133,4 +133,4 @@ do_install () {
        touch ${D}${sysconfdir}/hosts.deny
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/hosts.allow ${sysconfdir}/hosts.deny"
+FILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/hosts.allow ${sysconfdir}/hosts.deny"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_6.8.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_6.8.bb
index 69af7cf21d..5a7cbef402 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_6.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_6.8.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
-PROVIDES_append_class-native = " texinfo-replacement-native"
+PROVIDES:append:class-native = " texinfo-replacement-native"
 def compress_pkg(d):
    if bb.data.inherits_class('compress_doc', d):
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ def compress_pkg(d):
             return "xz"
    return ""
-RDEPENDS_info += "${@compress_pkg(d)}"
+RDEPENDS:info += "${@compress_pkg(d)}"
 DEPENDS = "zlib ncurses texinfo-replacement-native"
-DEPENDS_class-native = "zlib-native ncurses-native"
+DEPENDS:class-native = "zlib-native ncurses-native"
 TARGET_PATCH = "file://use_host_makedoc.patch"
-TARGET_PATCH_class-native = ""
+TARGET_PATCH:class-native = ""
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/texinfo/${BP}.tar.gz \
           file://0001-gnulib-Update.patch \
@@ -46,38 +46,38 @@ MULTILIB_SCRIPTS = "${PN}:${bindir}/texi2any"
 EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "-I ${S}/gnulib/m4"
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
        # autotools_do_configure updates po/Makefile.in.in, we also need
        # update po_document.
        cp -f ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gettext/po/Makefile.in.in ${S}/po_document/
 }
-do_compile_prepend() {
+do_compile:prepend() {
        if [ -d tools ];then
                oe_runmake -C tools/gnulib/lib
        fi
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        mkdir -p ${D}${datadir}/${tex_texinfo}
        install -p -m644 ${S}/doc/texinfo.tex ${S}/doc/txi-??.tex ${D}${datadir}/${tex_texinfo}
        sed -i -e '1s,#!.*perl,#! ${USRBINPATH}/env perl,' ${D}${bindir}/texi2any ${D}${bindir}/pod2texi
 }
-do_install_append_class-native() {
+do_install:append:class-native() {
        install -m 755 info/makedoc ${D}${bindir}
 }
 PACKAGES += "info info-doc"
-FILES_info = "${bindir}/info ${bindir}/infokey ${bindir}/install-info"
+FILES:info = "${bindir}/info ${bindir}/infokey ${bindir}/install-info"
-FILES_info-doc = "${infodir}/info.info* ${infodir}/dir ${infodir}/info-*.info* \
+FILES:info-doc = "${infodir}/info.info* ${infodir}/dir ${infodir}/info-*.info* \
                  ${mandir}/man1/info.1* ${mandir}/man5/info.5* \
                  ${mandir}/man1/infokey.1* ${mandir}/man1/install-info.1*"
-FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/makeinfo ${bindir}/texi* ${bindir}/pdftexi2dvi ${bindir}/pod2texi ${datadir}/texinfo"
+FILES:${PN} = "${bindir}/makeinfo ${bindir}/texi* ${bindir}/pdftexi2dvi ${bindir}/pod2texi ${datadir}/texinfo"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "perl"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = "${infodir}/texinfo* \
+FILES:${PN}-doc = "${infodir}/texinfo* \
                   ${datadir}/${tex_texinfo} \
                   ${mandir}/man1 ${mandir}/man5"
@@ -85,6 +85,6 @@ FILES_${PN}-doc = "${infodir}/texinfo* \
 # but the code will test for it and if not found use Locale::gettext_pp instead.
 # However, this causes a file dependency on perl(Locale::gettext_xs) to be
 # generated, which must be satisfied.
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "perl(Locale::gettext_xs)"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "perl(Locale::gettext_xs)"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/time/time_1.9.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/time/time_1.9.bb
index e2b084caae..abd00f09bf 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/time/time_1.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/time/time_1.9.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 inherit texinfo update-alternatives
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "time"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "time"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/timezone/tzdata.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/timezone/tzdata.bb
index 09145e1ed0..c2b019922a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/timezone/tzdata.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/timezone/tzdata.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DEPENDS = "tzcode-native"
 inherit allarch
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "timezones timezone-africa timezone-america timezone-antarctica \
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "timezones timezone-africa timezone-america timezone-antarctica \
             timezone-arctic timezone-asia timezone-atlantic \
             timezone-australia timezone-europe timezone-indian \
             timezone-iso3166.tab timezone-pacific timezone-zone.tab"
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ do_install () {
        chown -R root:root ${D}
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
        etc_lt="$D${sysconfdir}/localtime"
        src="$D${sysconfdir}/timezone"
@@ -88,47 +88,47 @@ TZ_PACKAGES = " \
    tzdata-atlantic tzdata-australia tzdata-europe tzdata-pacific"
 PACKAGES = "${TZ_PACKAGES} ${PN}"
-FILES_tzdata-africa += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Africa/*"
+FILES:tzdata-africa += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Africa/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-africa = "tzdata-africa"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-africa = "tzdata-africa"
-FILES_tzdata-americas += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/America/*  \
+FILES:tzdata-americas += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/America/*  \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/US/*                \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Brazil/*            \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Canada/*            \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Mexico/*            \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Chile/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-americas = "tzdata-americas"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-americas = "tzdata-americas"
-FILES_tzdata-antarctica += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Antarctica/*"
+FILES:tzdata-antarctica += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Antarctica/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-antarctica = "tzdata-antarctica"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-antarctica = "tzdata-antarctica"
-FILES_tzdata-arctic += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Arctic/*"
+FILES:tzdata-arctic += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Arctic/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-arctic = "tzdata-arctic"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-arctic = "tzdata-arctic"
-FILES_tzdata-asia += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Asia/*        \
+FILES:tzdata-asia += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Asia/*        \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Indian/*            \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Mideast/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-asia = "tzdata-asia"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-asia = "tzdata-asia"
-FILES_tzdata-atlantic += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Atlantic/*"
+FILES:tzdata-atlantic += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Atlantic/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-atlantic = "tzdata-atlantic"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-atlantic = "tzdata-atlantic"
-FILES_tzdata-australia += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Australia/*"
+FILES:tzdata-australia += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Australia/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-australia = "tzdata-australia"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-australia = "tzdata-australia"
-FILES_tzdata-europe += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Europe/*"
+FILES:tzdata-europe += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Europe/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-europe = "tzdata-europe"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-europe = "tzdata-europe"
-FILES_tzdata-pacific += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Pacific/*"
+FILES:tzdata-pacific += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Pacific/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-pacific = "tzdata-pacific"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-pacific = "tzdata-pacific"
-FILES_tzdata-posix += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/posix/*"
+FILES:tzdata-posix += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/posix/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-posix = "tzdata-posix"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-posix = "tzdata-posix"
-FILES_tzdata-right += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/right/*"
+FILES:tzdata-right += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/right/*"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-right = "tzdata-right"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-right = "tzdata-right"
-FILES_tzdata-misc += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Cuba           \
+FILES:tzdata-misc += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Cuba           \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Egypt                \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Eire                 \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Factory              \
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@ FILES_tzdata-misc += "${datadir}/zoneinfo/Cuba           \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Portugal             \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Singapore            \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Turkey"
-RPROVIDES_tzdata-misc = "tzdata-misc"
+RPROVIDES:tzdata-misc = "tzdata-misc"
-FILES_tzdata-core += " \
+FILES:tzdata-core += " \
                ${sysconfdir}/localtime                  \
                ${sysconfdir}/timezone                   \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/leapseconds          \
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ FILES_tzdata-core += " \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab          \
                ${datadir}/zoneinfo/Etc/*"
-CONFFILES_tzdata-core = "${sysconfdir}/localtime ${sysconfdir}/timezone"
+CONFFILES:tzdata-core = "${sysconfdir}/localtime ${sysconfdir}/timezone"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "${TZ_PACKAGES}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "${TZ_PACKAGES}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/unzip/unzip_6.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/unzip/unzip_6.0.bb
index 40f0346f8d..0bc6abcd4b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/unzip/unzip_6.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/unzip/unzip_6.0.bb
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-e MAKEFLAGS= STRIP=true LF2='' \
                'CF_NOOPT=-I. -Ibzip2 -DUNIX ${CFLAGS}'"
 export LD = "${CC}"
-LD_class-native = "${CC}"
+LD:class-native = "${CC}"
 do_compile() {
        oe_runmake -f unix/Makefile generic
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "unzip"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "unzip"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[unzip] = "${bindir}/unzip"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/watchdog/watchdog_5.16.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/watchdog/watchdog_5.16.bb
index 19e94757c7..66373c9b28 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/watchdog/watchdog_5.16.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/watchdog/watchdog_5.16.bb
@@ -36,20 +36,20 @@ CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PATH_SENDMAIL=${sbindir}/sendmail"
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-keepalive"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN} = "watchdog"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN} = "watchdog"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN} = "start 25 1 2 3 4 5 . stop 85 0 6 ."
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN} = "start 25 1 2 3 4 5 . stop 85 0 6 ."
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}-keepalive = "wd_keepalive"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}-keepalive = "wd_keepalive"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN}-keepalive = "start 25 1 2 3 4 5 . stop 85 0 6 ."
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN}-keepalive = "start 25 1 2 3 4 5 . stop 85 0 6 ."
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-keepalive"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "watchdog.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "watchdog.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-keepalive = "wd_keepalive.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-keepalive = "wd_keepalive.service"
 # When using systemd, consider making use of internal watchdog support of systemd.
 # See RuntimeWatchdogSec in /etc/systemd/system.conf.
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        install -d ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
        install -m 0644 ${S}/debian/watchdog.service ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
        install -m 0644 ${S}/debian/wd_keepalive.service ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
@@ -63,15 +63,15 @@ do_install_append() {
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-keepalive"
-FILES_${PN}-keepalive = " \
+FILES:${PN}-keepalive = " \
    ${sysconfdir}/init.d/wd_keepalive \
    ${systemd_system_unitdir}/wd_keepalive.service \
    ${sbindir}/wd_keepalive \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-config"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${PN}-config"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "kernel-module-softdog"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "kernel-module-softdog"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-keepalive += "${PN}-config"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-keepalive += "${PN}-config"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN}-keepalive += "${PN}"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN}-keepalive += "${PN}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-keepalive += "kernel-module-softdog"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-keepalive += "kernel-module-softdog"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget.inc
index 2338328216..cd7290be57 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget.inc
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--without-libgnutls-prefix --without-libssl-prefix \
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += 'TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS="${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS}" \
                 DEBUG_PREFIX_MAP="${DEBUG_PREFIX_MAP}"'
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "wget"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "wget"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}_class-nativesdk = ""
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}:class-nativesdk = ""
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "ca-certificates"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "ca-certificates"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/which/which_2.21.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/which/which_2.21.bb
index 1da69c548e..d3c3f69d3f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/which/which_2.21.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/which/which_2.21.bb
@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/which/which-${PV}.tar.gz \
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "097ff1a324ae02e0a3b0369f07a7544a"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f4a245b94124b377d8b49646bf421f9155d36aa7614b6ebf83705d3ffc76eaad"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
        sed -i -e 's%@ACLOCAL_CWFLAGS@%-I ${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}/usr/share/cwautomacros/m4%g' ${S}/Makefile.am ${S}/tilde/Makefile.am
 }
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "which"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "which"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "which.1"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "which.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[which.1] = "${mandir}/man1/which.1"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/xdg-utils/xdg-utils_1.1.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/xdg-utils/xdg-utils_1.1.3.bb
index d371c5c28c..108e7b8c4c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/xdg-utils/xdg-utils_1.1.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/xdg-utils/xdg-utils_1.1.3.bb
@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ inherit autotools-brokensep features_check
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
 DEPENDS = "xmlto-native libxslt-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "xprop"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "xprop"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/xinetd/xinetd_2.3.15.4.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/xinetd/xinetd_2.3.15.4.bb
index 69d5b2f83b..e6ef5cf8b9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/xinetd/xinetd_2.3.15.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/xinetd/xinetd_2.3.15.4.bb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2013-4342"
 inherit autotools update-rc.d systemd pkgconfig
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "xinetd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "xinetd.service"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "xinetd"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults"
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "tcp-wrappers"
 PACKAGECONFIG[tcp-wrappers] = "--with-libwrap,,tcp-wrappers"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/xinetd.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/xinetd.conf"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
       install -d "${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d"
       install -d "${D}${sysconfdir}/default"
       install -m 755 "${WORKDIR}/xinetd.init" "${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/xinetd"
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ do_install_append() {
              ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/xinetd.service
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.5.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.5.bb
index f5f5c318fd..8021ebd9bc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.5.bb
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ SECTION = "base"
 # and the LGPL bits are under lib/, which appears to be used for libgnu, which
 # appears to be used for DOS builds. So we're left with GPLv2+ and PD.
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & GPL-3.0-with-autoconf-exception & LGPLv2.1+ & PD"
-LICENSE_${PN} = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE:${PN} = "GPLv2+"
-LICENSE_${PN}-dev = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-dev = "GPLv2+"
-LICENSE_${PN}-staticdev = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-staticdev = "GPLv2+"
-LICENSE_${PN}-doc = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-doc = "GPLv2+"
-LICENSE_${PN}-dbg = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-dbg = "GPLv2+"
-LICENSE_${PN}-locale = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-locale = "GPLv2+"
-LICENSE_liblzma = "PD"
+LICENSE:liblzma = "PD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=97d554a32881fee0aa283d96e47cb24a \
                    file://COPYING.GPLv2;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ inherit autotools gettext
 PACKAGES =+ "liblzma"
-FILES_liblzma = "${libdir}/liblzma*${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:liblzma = "${libdir}/liblzma*${SOLIBS}"
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "xz xzcat unxz \
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "xz xzcat unxz \
                     lzma lzcat unlzma"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"