149 files changed, 856 insertions, 856 deletions
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/autossh/autossh_1.4g.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/autossh/autossh_1.4g.bb
index 9b69601e7b..125dfaaa97 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/autossh/autossh_1.4g.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/autossh/autossh_1.4g.bb
@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ SRC_URI = "https://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/${BP}.tgz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "2b804bc1bf6d2f2afaa526d02df7c0a2"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5fc3cee3361ca1615af862364c480593171d0c54ec156de79fc421e31ae21277"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "ssh"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "ssh"
-CFLAGS_prepend = "-I${WORKDIR}/build "
+CFLAGS:prepend = "-I${WORKDIR}/build "
 inherit autotools
 EXTRA_OECONF="--with-ssh=/usr/bin/ssh"
-do_compile_append() {
+do_compile:append() {
        cp ${WORKDIR}/autossh-${PV}/CHANGES ${WORKDIR}/build
        cp ${WORKDIR}/autossh-${PV}/README ${WORKDIR}/build
        cp ${WORKDIR}/autossh-${PV}/autossh.host ${WORKDIR}/build
@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ do_compile_append() {
        cp ${WORKDIR}/autossh-${PV}/autossh.spec ${WORKDIR}/build
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        rm -rf ${D}${datadir}/examples
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/blueman/blueman_2.2.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/blueman/blueman_2.2.1.bb
index 3cb01ff71e..6ccb425e38 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/blueman/blueman_2.2.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/blueman/blueman_2.2.1.bb
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = " \
    --disable-schemas-compile \
 "
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "${BPN}-mechanism.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "${BPN}-mechanism.service"
-SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN} = "disable"
+SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:${PN} = "disable"
 RRECOMENDS_${PN} += "adwaita-icon-theme"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
    python3-core \
    python3-dbus \
    packagegroup-tools-bluetooth \
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "thunar"
 PACKAGECONFIG[thunar] = "--enable-thunar-sendto,--disable-thunar-sendto"
-FILES_${PN} += " \
+FILES:${PN} += " \
    ${datadir}/dbus-1 \
    ${datadir}/Thunar \
    ${systemd_user_unitdir} \
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ FILES_${PN} += " \
    ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR} \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/_blueman.a"
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/_blueman.a"
 # In code, path to python is a variable that is replaced with path to native version of it
 # during the configure stage, e.g ../recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/python3-native/python3.
 # Replace it with #!/usr/bin/env python3
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    sed -i "1s/.*/#!\/usr\/bin\/env python3/" ${D}${prefix}/libexec/blueman-rfcomm-watcher \
                                              ${D}${prefix}/libexec/blueman-mechanism \
                                              ${D}${bindir}/blueman-adapters \
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/crda/crda_3.18.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/crda/crda_3.18.bb
index e59d2f437d..7b663cdbb4 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/crda/crda_3.18.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/crda/crda_3.18.bb
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ do_install() {
    oe_runmake SBINDIR=${sbindir}/ install
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "udev wireless-regdb-static"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "udev wireless-regdb-static"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/dhcp/dhcp-relay_4.4.2p1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/dhcp/dhcp-relay_4.4.2p1.bb
index 6ea5b4b27a..93364758e3 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/dhcp/dhcp-relay_4.4.2p1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/dhcp/dhcp-relay_4.4.2p1.bb
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/dhcp-4.4.2-P1"
 inherit autotools-brokensep systemd
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "dhcrelay.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "dhcrelay.service"
-SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN} = "disable"
+SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:${PN} = "disable"
 CFLAGS += "-D_GNU_SOURCE -fcommon"
-LDFLAGS_append = " -pthread"
+LDFLAGS:append = " -pthread"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-paranoia \
                --disable-static \
@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-paranoia \
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += "LIBTOOL='${S}/${HOST_SYS}-libtool'"
 # Enable shared libs per dhcp README
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
    cp configure.ac+lt configure.ac
    rm ${S}/bind/bind.tar.gz
    mv ${WORKDIR}/bind.tar.gz ${S}/bind/
 }
-do_compile_prepend() {
+do_compile:prepend() {
    rm -rf ${S}/bind/bind-9.11.32/
    tar xf ${S}/bind/bind.tar.gz -C ${S}/bind
    install -m 0755 ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gnu-config/config.guess ${S}/bind/bind-9.11.32/
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ do_compile_prepend() {
    install -m 0755 ${S}/${HOST_SYS}-libtool ${S}/bind/bind-9.11.32/
 }
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/default
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/default-relay ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/dhcp-relay
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/dibbler/dibbler_git.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/dibbler/dibbler_git.bb
index b19364e1e2..7558c314ff 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/dibbler/dibbler_git.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/dibbler/dibbler_git.bb
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ LDFLAGS += "-pthread"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-requestor ${PN}-client ${PN}-relay ${PN}-server"
-FILES_${PN}-client = "${sbindir}/${PN}-client"
+FILES:${PN}-client = "${sbindir}/${PN}-client"
-FILES_${PN}-relay = "${sbindir}/${PN}-relay"
+FILES:${PN}-relay = "${sbindir}/${PN}-relay"
-FILES_${PN}-requestor = "${sbindir}/${PN}-requestor"
+FILES:${PN}-requestor = "${sbindir}/${PN}-requestor"
-FILES_${PN}-server = "${sbindir}/${PN}-server"
+FILES:${PN}-server = "${sbindir}/${PN}-server"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/firewalld/firewalld_0.9.4.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/firewalld/firewalld_0.9.4.bb
index b8025c7078..7aed5105cd 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/firewalld/firewalld_0.9.4.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/firewalld/firewalld_0.9.4.bb
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "\
 "
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "firewalld"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "firewalld.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "firewalld.service"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
        :
    else
@@ -65,16 +65,16 @@ do_install_append() {
    rm -f ${D}${sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/firewalld-sysctls.conf
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "\
+FILES:${PN} += "\
    ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/firewall \
    ${nonarch_libdir}/firewalld \
    ${datadir}/dbus-1 \
    ${datadir}/polkit-1 \
    ${datadir}/metainfo \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-zsh-completion = "${datadir}/zsh/site-functions"
+FILES:${PN}-zsh-completion = "${datadir}/zsh/site-functions"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
    nftables-python \
    iptables \
    python3-core \
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/freeradius_3.0.21.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/freeradius_3.0.21.bb
index a6df2aeb03..0d1c4adc1d 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/freeradius_3.0.21.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/freeradius_3.0.21.bb
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
-LDFLAGS_append_powerpc = " -latomic"
+LDFLAGS:append:powerpc = " -latomic"
-LDFLAGS_append_mipsarch = " -latomic"
+LDFLAGS:append:mipsarch = " -latomic"
-LDFLAGS_append_armv5 = " -latomic"
+LDFLAGS:append:armv5 = " -latomic"
 EXTRA_OECONF = " --enable-strict-dependencies \
        --with-docdir=${docdir}/freeradius-${PV} \
@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ do_configure () {
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "radiusd"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "radiusd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "radiusd.service"
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system --no-create-home --shell /bin/false --user-group radiusd"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system --no-create-home --shell /bin/false --user-group radiusd"
 do_install() {
    rm -rf ${D}
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ do_install() {
 # This is only needed when we install/update on a running target.
 #
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
    if [ -z "$D" ]; then
        if command -v systemd-tmpfiles >/dev/null; then
            # create /var/log/radius, /var/run/radiusd
@@ -189,52 +189,52 @@ pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
 }
 # We really need the symlink :(
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "dev-so"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-krb5 = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-krb5 = "dev-so"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-ldap = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-ldap = "dev-so"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-mysql = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-mysql = "dev-so"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-perl = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-perl = "dev-so"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-postgresql = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-postgresql = "dev-so"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-python = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-python = "dev-so"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-unixodbc = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-unixodbc = "dev-so"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-utils ${PN}-ldap ${PN}-krb5 ${PN}-perl \
    ${PN}-python ${PN}-mysql ${PN}-postgresql ${PN}-unixodbc"
-FILES_${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/*"
-FILES_${PN}-ldap = "${libdir}/rlm_ldap.so* \
+FILES:${PN}-ldap = "${libdir}/rlm_ldap.so* \
    ${sysconfdir}/raddb/mods-available/ldap \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-krb5 = "${libdir}/rlm_krb5.so* \
+FILES:${PN}-krb5 = "${libdir}/rlm_krb5.so* \
    ${sysconfdir}/raddb/mods-available/krb5 \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-perl = "${libdir}/rlm_perl.so* \
+FILES:${PN}-perl = "${libdir}/rlm_perl.so* \
    ${sysconfdir}/raddb/mods-config/perl \
    ${sysconfdir}/raddb/mods-available/perl \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-python = "${libdir}/rlm_python3.so* \
+FILES:${PN}-python = "${libdir}/rlm_python3.so* \
    ${sysconfdir}/raddb/mods-config/python3 \
    ${sysconfdir}/raddb/mods-available/python3 \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-mysql = "${libdir}/rlm_sql_mysql.so* \
+FILES:${PN}-mysql = "${libdir}/rlm_sql_mysql.so* \
    ${sysconfdir}/raddb/mods-config/sql/*/mysql \
    ${sysconfdir}/raddb/mods-available/sql \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-postgresql = "${libdir}/rlm_sql_postgresql.so* \
+FILES:${PN}-postgresql = "${libdir}/rlm_sql_postgresql.so* \
    ${sysconfdir}/raddb/mods-config/sql/*/postgresql \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-unixodbc = "${libdir}/rlm_sql_unixodbc.so*"
+FILES:${PN}-unixodbc = "${libdir}/rlm_sql_unixodbc.so*"
-FILES_${PN} =+ "${libdir}/rlm_*.so* ${libdir}/proto_*so*"
+FILES:${PN} =+ "${libdir}/rlm_*.so* ${libdir}/proto_*so*"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-utils = "${PN} perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-utils = "${PN} perl"
 CLEANBROKEN = "1"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/lftp/lftp_4.9.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/lftp/lftp_4.9.2.bb
index e6240a58ed..9b64388a0f 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/lftp/lftp_4.9.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/lftp/lftp_4.9.2.bb
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[gnutls] = "--with-gnutls, --without-gnutls, gnutls"
 PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--with-readline=${STAGING_INCDIR}/.. --with-readline-inc=${STAGING_INCDIR} --with-readline-lib=-lreadline, --with-readline=no, readline"
 PACKAGECONFIG[expat] = "--with-expat=${STAGING_INCDIR}/.. --with-expat-inc=${STAGING_INCDIR} --with-expat-lib=-lexpat, , expat"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        rm -rf ${D}${libdir}/charset.alias
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/icons/hicolor"
+FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/icons/hicolor"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/lftp/${PV}/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/lftp/${PV}/.debug"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "perl bash readline"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "perl bash readline"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/libiec61850/libiec61850_1.5.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/libiec61850/libiec61850_1.5.0.bb
index 18e2992833..ab7167c946 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/libiec61850/libiec61850_1.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/libiec61850/libiec61850_1.5.0.bb
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
    -DBUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-python = " python3-core "
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-python = " python3-core "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " python3-core "
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " python3-core "
-FILES_${PN} += " \
+FILES:${PN} += " \
    ${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/site-packages/iec61850.py \
    ${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/site-packages/_iec61850.so \
 "
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/mbedtls/mbedtls_2.26.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/mbedtls/mbedtls_2.26.0.bb
index 3c7df44513..b62ed04ce6 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/mbedtls/mbedtls_2.26.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/mbedtls/mbedtls_2.26.0.bb
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[werror] = "-DMBEDTLS_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON,-DMBEDTLS_FATAL_WARNINGS=OF
 EXTRA_OECMAKE = "-DENABLE_TESTING=OFF -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR:STRING=${libdir}"
 PROVIDES += "polarssl"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = "polarssl"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "polarssl"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-programs"
-FILES_${PN}-programs = "${bindir}/"
+FILES:${PN}-programs = "${bindir}/"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/miniupnpd/miniupnpd_2.1.20191006.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/miniupnpd/miniupnpd_2.1.20191006.bb
index a630d27b9c..468569eef1 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/miniupnpd/miniupnpd_2.1.20191006.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/miniupnpd/miniupnpd_2.1.20191006.bb
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "218fad7af31f3c22fb4c9db28a55a2a8b5067d41f5b38f52008a057a00
 IPV6 = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ipv6', '--ipv6', '', d)}"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
   echo "${@d.getVar('DISTRO_VERSION')}" > ${S}/os.openembedded
 }
@@ -47,4 +47,4 @@ do_install() {
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/miniupnpd.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/
 }
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "miniupnpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "miniupnpd.service"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/mosquitto/mosquitto_2.0.11.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/mosquitto/mosquitto_2.0.11.bb
index 9f1c024bbd..9a13e2bc63 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/mosquitto/mosquitto_2.0.11.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/mosquitto/mosquitto_2.0.11.bb
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
    -DWITH_ADNS=ON \
 "
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/
    install -m 0644 ${S}/service/systemd/mosquitto.service.notify ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/mosquitto.service
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ PACKAGES += "libmosquitto1 libmosquittopp1 ${PN}-clients"
 PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN = "${PN}-examples"
-FILES_${PN} = "${sbindir}/mosquitto \
+FILES:${PN} = "${sbindir}/mosquitto \
               ${bindir}/mosquitto_passwd \
               ${bindir}/mosquitto_ctrl \
               ${libdir}/mosquitto_dynamic_security.so \
@@ -66,26 +66,26 @@ FILES_${PN} = "${sbindir}/mosquitto \
               ${systemd_unitdir}/system/mosquitto.service \
 "
-CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf"
-FILES_libmosquitto1 = "${libdir}/libmosquitto.so.*"
+FILES:libmosquitto1 = "${libdir}/libmosquitto.so.*"
-FILES_libmosquittopp1 = "${libdir}/libmosquittopp.so.*"
+FILES:libmosquittopp1 = "${libdir}/libmosquittopp.so.*"
-FILES_${PN}-clients = "${bindir}/mosquitto_pub \
+FILES:${PN}-clients = "${bindir}/mosquitto_pub \
                       ${bindir}/mosquitto_sub \
                       ${bindir}/mosquitto_rr \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-examples = "${sysconfdir}/mosquitto/*.example"
+FILES:${PN}-examples = "${sysconfdir}/mosquitto/*.example"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "mosquitto.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "mosquitto.service"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "mosquitto"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults 30"
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system --no-create-home --shell /bin/false \
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system --no-create-home --shell /bin/false \
                       --user-group mosquitto"
 BBCLASSEXTEND += "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nanomsg_1.1.5.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nanomsg_1.1.5.bb
index 8444f0b739..750b252106 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nanomsg_1.1.5.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nanomsg_1.1.5.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ inherit cmake pkgconfig
 EXTRA_OECMAKE = " -DNN_ENABLE_DOC=OFF "
 # we don't want nanomsg-tools to be renamed to libnanomsg-tools
-DEBIAN_NOAUTONAME_${PN}-tools = "1"
+DEBIAN_NOAUTONAME:${PN}-tools = "1"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-tools"
-FILES_${PN}-tools = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-tools = "${bindir}/*"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng_1.4.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng_1.4.0.bb
index f61aa0549d..49e2015641 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng_1.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng_1.4.0.bb
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[mbedtls] = "-DNNG_ENABLE_TLS=ON,-DNNG_ENABLE_TLS=OFF,mbedtls"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-tools"
-FILES_${PN}-tools = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-tools = "${bindir}/*"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/netplan/netplan_0.102.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/netplan/netplan_0.102.bb
index 3328dfbbb9..6c624ce4e9 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/netplan/netplan_0.102.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/netplan/netplan_0.102.bb
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ SRC_URI = " \
        git://github.com/CanonicalLtd/netplan.git \
        file://0001-Handle-enum-element-override.patch \
 "
-SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = " file://0001-don-t-fail-if-GLOB_BRACE-is-not-defined.patch"
+SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = " file://0001-don-t-fail-if-GLOB_BRACE-is-not-defined.patch"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libyaml ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', d)}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "python3 python3-core python3-pyyaml python3-netifaces python3-nose python3-coverage python3-pycodestyle python3-pyflakes util-linux-libuuid libnetplan"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "python3 python3-core python3-pyyaml python3-netifaces python3-nose python3-coverage python3-pycodestyle python3-pyflakes util-linux-libuuid libnetplan"
 inherit pkgconfig systemd
@@ -56,6 +56,6 @@ do_install() {
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-dbus libnetplan"
-FILES_libnetplan = "${libdir}/libnetplan.so.0.0"
+FILES:libnetplan = "${libdir}/libnetplan.so.0.0"
-FILES_${PN} = "${sbindir} ${base_libdir}/netplan/generate ${datadir}/netplan ${sysconfdir}/netplan ${systemd_unitdir}"
+FILES:${PN} = "${sbindir} ${base_libdir}/netplan/generate ${datadir}/netplan ${sysconfdir}/netplan ${systemd_unitdir}"
-FILES_${PN}-dbus = "${base_libdir}/netplan/netplan-dbus ${datadir}/dbus-1"
+FILES:${PN}-dbus = "${base_libdir}/netplan/netplan-dbus ${datadir}/dbus-1"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager-openvpn_1.8.14.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager-openvpn_1.8.14.bb
index 1f76d8ab52..9f3054a7c2 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager-openvpn_1.8.14.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager-openvpn_1.8.14.bb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/NetworkManager-openvpn-${PV}"
 # meta-gnome in layers is required using gnome:
 PACKAGECONFIG[gnome] = "--with-gnome,--without-gnome,gtk+3 libnma libsecret"
-do_configure_append() {
+do_configure:append() {
    # network-manager-openvpn.metainfo.xml is created in source folder but
    # compile expects it in build folder. As long as nobody comes up with a
    # better solution just support build:
@@ -28,26 +28,26 @@ do_configure_append() {
    fi
 }
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    rm -rf ${D}${libdir}/NetworkManager/*.la
 }
 # Create user and group nm-openvpn that are needed since version 1.0.6
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system nm-openvpn"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system nm-openvpn"
-FILES_${PN} += " \
+FILES:${PN} += " \
    ${datadir}/dbus-1 \
    ${datadir}/metainfo \
    ${libdir}/NetworkManager/*.so \
    ${nonarch_libdir}/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openvpn-service.name \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += " \
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += " \
    ${libdir}/NetworkManager/*.a \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
    networkmanager \
    openvpn \
 "
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.32.4.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.32.4.bb
index 9c1e368642..0ef525d31d 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.32.4.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/networkmanager/networkmanager_1.32.4.bb
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = " \
 # stolen from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/NetworkManager/template
 # avoids:
 # | ../NetworkManager-1.16.0/libnm-core/nm-json.c:106:50: error: 'RTLD_DEEPBIND' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'RTLD_DEFAULT'?
-CFLAGS_append_libc-musl = " \
+CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = " \
    -DRTLD_DEEPBIND=0 \
 "
-do_compile_prepend() {
+do_compile:prepend() {
    export GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH="${B}/src/libnm-client-impl/.libs"
 }
@@ -92,19 +92,19 @@ PACKAGES =+ " \
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-cloud-setup"
-FILES_${PN}-adsl = "${libdir}/NetworkManager/${PV}/libnm-device-plugin-adsl.so"
+FILES:${PN}-adsl = "${libdir}/NetworkManager/${PV}/libnm-device-plugin-adsl.so"
-FILES_${PN}-cloud-setup = " \
+FILES:${PN}-cloud-setup = " \
    ${libexecdir}/nm-cloud-setup \
    ${systemd_system_unitdir}/nm-cloud-setup.service \
    ${systemd_system_unitdir}/nm-cloud-setup.timer \
    ${libdir}/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/90-nm-cloud-setup.sh \
    ${libdir}/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/no-wait.d/90-nm-cloud-setup.sh \
 "
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-cloud-setup = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-cloud-setup = "1"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-cloud-setup = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'cloud-setup', 'nm-cloud-setup.service nm-cloud-setup.timer', '', d)}"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-cloud-setup = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'cloud-setup', 'nm-cloud-setup.service nm-cloud-setup.timer', '', d)}"
-FILES_${PN} += " \
+FILES:${PN} += " \
    ${libexecdir} \
    ${libdir}/NetworkManager/${PV}/*.so \
    ${libdir}/NetworkManager \
@@ -123,46 +123,46 @@ FILES_${PN} += " \
    ${libdir}/pppd \
 "
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "iptables \
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "iptables \
    ${@bb.utils.filter('PACKAGECONFIG', 'dnsmasq', d)} \
 "
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "connman"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "connman"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += " \
+FILES:${PN}-dev += " \
    ${datadir}/NetworkManager/gdb-cmd \
    ${libdir}/pppd/*/*.la \
    ${libdir}/NetworkManager/*.la \
    ${libdir}/NetworkManager/${PV}/*.la \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-nmcli = " \
+FILES:${PN}-nmcli = " \
    ${bindir}/nmcli \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-nmcli-doc = " \
+FILES:${PN}-nmcli-doc = " \
    ${mandir}/man1/nmcli* \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-nmtui = " \
+FILES:${PN}-nmtui = " \
    ${bindir}/nmtui \
    ${bindir}/nmtui-edit \
    ${bindir}/nmtui-connect \
    ${bindir}/nmtui-hostname \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-nmtui-doc = " \
+FILES:${PN}-nmtui-doc = " \
    ${mandir}/man1/nmtui* \
 "
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "network-manager"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'systemd', 'NetworkManager.service NetworkManager-dispatcher.service', '', d)}"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'systemd', 'NetworkManager.service NetworkManager-dispatcher.service', '', d)}"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','resolv-conf','',d)}"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','resolv-conf','',d)}"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[resolv-conf] = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','${sysconfdir}/resolv-conf.NetworkManager','',d)}"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[resolv-conf] = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','${sysconfdir}/resolv.conf','',d)}"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -Dm 0755 ${WORKDIR}/${BPN}.initd ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/network-manager
    rm -rf ${D}/run ${D}${localstatedir}/run
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/openconnect/openconnect_8.10.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/openconnect/openconnect_8.10.bb
index a486cf0e05..c66192aea9 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/openconnect/openconnect_8.10.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/openconnect/openconnect_8.10.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SRC_URI = " \
 SRCREV = "9d287e40c57233190a51b6434ba7345370e36f38"
 DEPENDS = "vpnc libxml2 krb5 gettext-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash python3-core vpnc-script"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "bash python3-core vpnc-script"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gnutls lz4 libproxy"
@@ -27,6 +27,6 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig bash-completion
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-vpnc-script=${sysconfdir}/vpnc/vpnc-script \
                 --disable-static"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    rm ${D}/usr/libexec/openconnect/hipreport-android.sh
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/python-networkmanager/python3-networkmanager_2.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/python-networkmanager/python3-networkmanager_2.2.bb
index d447231fc5..60cf3c2525 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/python-networkmanager/python3-networkmanager_2.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/python-networkmanager/python3-networkmanager_2.2.bb
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "de6eb921d94aba7549f428ed2b3aa482a5d543ecb6965cbaa0fbb555ab
 PYPI_PACKAGE = "python-networkmanager"
 inherit pypi setuptools3
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "networkmanager python3-dbus python3-six"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "networkmanager python3-dbus python3-six"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/rdist/rdist_6.1.5.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/rdist/rdist_6.1.5.bb
index 37b3eebe4b..d81cc9a3d1 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/rdist/rdist_6.1.5.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/rdist/rdist_6.1.5.bb
@@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ inherit autotools-brokensep
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "BIN_GROUP=root MAN_GROUP=root RDIST_MODE=755 RDISTD_MODE=755 MAN_MODE=644"
 # http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/186972/
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_libc-musl = 'null'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = 'null'
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/restinio/restinio_0.6.13.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/restinio/restinio_0.6.13.bb
index e3567961aa..e715135dc3 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/restinio/restinio_0.6.13.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/restinio/restinio_0.6.13.bb
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE += "\
                  "
 # Header-only library
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = ""
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-dbg = "${PN}-dev (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-dbg = "${PN}-dev (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/samba/samba_4.14.5.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/samba/samba_4.14.5.bb
index 5c5ce36705..2bc43e7146 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/samba/samba_4.14.5.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/samba/samba_4.14.5.bb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${SAMBA_MIRROR}/stable/samba-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://0009-source3-wscript-disable-check-fcntl-RW_HINTS.patch \
           "
-SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = " \
+SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = " \
           file://netdb_defines.patch \
           file://samba-pam.patch \
           file://samba-4.3.9-remove-getpwent_r.patch \
@@ -45,31 +45,31 @@ inherit systemd waf-samba cpan-base perlnative update-rc.d perl-version
 CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2011-2411" 
 # remove default added RDEPENDS on perl
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:remove = "perl"
 DEPENDS += "readline virtual/libiconv zlib popt libtalloc libtdb libtevent libldb libaio libpam libtasn1 jansson libparse-yapp-perl-native gnutls"
 inherit features_check
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "pam"
-DEPENDS_append_libc-musl = " libtirpc"
+DEPENDS:append:libc-musl = " libtirpc"
-CFLAGS_append_libc-musl = " -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/tirpc"
+CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = " -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/tirpc"
-LDFLAGS_append_libc-musl = " -ltirpc"
+LDFLAGS:append:libc-musl = " -ltirpc"
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_riscv32 = "null"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:riscv32 = "null"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "samba"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 20 3 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 ."
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}-base ${PN}-ad-dc winbind"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-base = "nmb.service smb.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-base = "nmb.service smb.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-ad-dc = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'ad-dc', 'samba.service', '', d)}"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-ad-dc = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'ad-dc', 'samba.service', '', d)}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_winbind = "winbind.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:winbind = "winbind.service"
 # There are prerequisite settings to enable ad-dc, so disable the service by default.
 # Reference:
 # https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller
-SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN}-ad-dc = "disable"
+SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:${PN}-ad-dc = "disable"
 #cross_compile cannot use preforked process, since fork process earlier than point subproces.popen
 #to cross Popen
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd zeroconf', d)}
                   acl cups ad-dc ldap mitkrb5 \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ctdb-tests += "bash util-linux-getopt"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ctdb-tests += "bash util-linux-getopt"
 PACKAGECONFIG[acl] = "--with-acl-support,--without-acl-support,acl"
 PACKAGECONFIG[fam] = "--with-fam,--without-fam,gamin"
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "--enable-fhs \
 LDFLAGS += "-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', ' -fuse-ld=bfd ', '', d)}"
-do_configure_append () {
+do_configure:append () {
    cd ${S}/pidl/
    perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=${prefix}
    sed -e 's,VENDORPREFIX)/lib/perl,VENDORPREFIX)/${baselib}/perl,g' \
@@ -138,11 +138,11 @@ do_configure_append () {
 }
-do_compile_append () {
+do_compile:append () {
    oe_runmake -C ${S}/pidl
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    for section in 1 5 7; do
        install -d ${D}${mandir}/man$section
        install -m 0644 ctdb/doc/*.$section ${D}${mandir}/man$section
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-python3 ${PN}-pidl \
 python samba_populate_packages() {
    def module_hook(file, pkg, pattern, format, basename):
        pn = d.getVar('PN')
-        d.appendVar('RRECOMMENDS_%s-base' % pn, ' %s' % pkg)
+        d.appendVar('RRECOMMENDS:%s-base' % pn, ' %s' % pkg)
    mlprefix = d.getVar('MLPREFIX') or ''
    pam_libdir = d.expand('${base_libdir}/security')
@@ -240,25 +240,25 @@ python samba_populate_packages() {
    do_split_packages(d, moduledir, '^(.*)\.so$', 'samba-pdb-%s', 'Samba %s password backend', hook=module_hook, extra_depends='', prepend=True)
 }
-PACKAGESPLITFUNCS_prepend = "samba_populate_packages "
+PACKAGESPLITFUNCS:prepend = "samba_populate_packages "
 PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "samba-auth-.* samba-pdb-.*"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-base ${PN}-python3 ${PN}-dsdb-modules python3"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${PN}-base ${PN}-python3 ${PN}-dsdb-modules python3"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-python3 += "pytalloc python3-tdb"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-python3 += "pytalloc python3-tdb"
-FILES_${PN}-base = "${sbindir}/nmbd \
+FILES:${PN}-base = "${sbindir}/nmbd \
                    ${sbindir}/smbd \
                    ${sysconfdir}/init.d \
                    ${systemd_system_unitdir}/nmb.service \
                    ${systemd_system_unitdir}/smb.service"
-FILES_${PN}-ad-dc = "${sbindir}/samba \
+FILES:${PN}-ad-dc = "${sbindir}/samba \
                     ${systemd_system_unitdir}/samba.service \
                     ${libdir}/krb5/plugins/kdb/samba.so \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ad-dc = "krb5-kdc"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ad-dc = "krb5-kdc"
-FILES_${PN}-ctdb-tests = "${bindir}/ctdb_run_tests \
+FILES:${PN}-ctdb-tests = "${bindir}/ctdb_run_tests \
                          ${bindir}/ctdb_run_cluster_tests \
                          ${sysconfdir}/ctdb/nodes \
                          ${datadir}/ctdb-tests \
@@ -266,34 +266,34 @@ FILES_${PN}-ctdb-tests = "${bindir}/ctdb_run_tests \
                          ${localstatedir}/lib/ctdb \
                         "
-FILES_${BPN}-common = "${sysconfdir}/default \
+FILES:${BPN}-common = "${sysconfdir}/default \
                       ${sysconfdir}/samba \
                       ${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d \
                       ${localstatedir}/lib/samba \
                       ${localstatedir}/spool/samba \
 "
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/vfs/*.so \
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/vfs/*.so \
                ${libdir}/charset/*.so \
                ${libdir}/*.dat \
                ${libdir}/auth/*.so \
                ${datadir}/ctdb/events/* \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-dsdb-modules = "${libdir}/samba/ldb"
+FILES:${PN}-dsdb-modules = "${libdir}/samba/ldb"
-FILES_${PN}-testsuite = "${bindir}/gentest \
+FILES:${PN}-testsuite = "${bindir}/gentest \
                         ${bindir}/locktest \
                         ${bindir}/masktest \
                         ${bindir}/ndrdump \
                         ${bindir}/smbtorture"
-FILES_registry-tools = "${bindir}/regdiff \
+FILES:registry-tools = "${bindir}/regdiff \
                        ${bindir}/regpatch \
                        ${bindir}/regshell \
                        ${bindir}/regtree"
-FILES_winbind = "${sbindir}/winbindd \
+FILES:winbind = "${sbindir}/winbindd \
                 ${bindir}/wbinfo \
                 ${bindir}/ntlm_auth \
                 ${libdir}/samba/idmap \
@@ -303,9 +303,9 @@ FILES_winbind = "${sbindir}/winbindd \
                 ${sysconfdir}/init.d/winbind \
                 ${systemd_system_unitdir}/winbind.service"
-FILES_${PN}-python3 = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
+FILES:${PN}-python3 = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
-FILES_smbclient = "${bindir}/cifsdd \
+FILES:smbclient = "${bindir}/cifsdd \
                   ${bindir}/rpcclient \
                   ${bindir}/smbcacls \
                   ${bindir}/smbclient \
@@ -316,31 +316,31 @@ FILES_smbclient = "${bindir}/cifsdd \
                   ${bindir}/smbtree \
                   ${libdir}/samba/smbspool_krb5_wrapper"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-pidl_append = " perl libparse-yapp-perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-pidl:append = " perl libparse-yapp-perl"
-FILES_${PN}-pidl = "${bindir}/pidl \
+FILES:${PN}-pidl = "${bindir}/pidl \
                    ${libdir}/perl5 \
                   "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-client = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-client = "\
    smbclient \
    winbind \
    registry-tools \
    ${PN}-pidl \
    "
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-client = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-client = "1"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-server = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-server = "\
    ${PN} \
    winbind \
    registry-tools \
    "
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-server = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-server = "1"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-test = "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-test = "\
    ${PN}-ctdb-tests \
    ${PN}-testsuite \
    "
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-test = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-test = "1"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/sethdlc/sethdlc_1.18.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/sethdlc/sethdlc_1.18.bb
index 5c7180b6aa..744e782064 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/sethdlc/sethdlc_1.18.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/sethdlc/sethdlc_1.18.bb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ DEPENDS = "virtual/kernel"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE="CROSS_COMPILE=${TARGET_PREFIX} CC='${CC} ${LDFLAGS}' \
              KERNEL_DIR=${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR} "
-do_compile_prepend () {
+do_compile:prepend () {
    oe_runmake clean
 }
@@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ do_install() {
    install sethdlc ${D}/${bindir}/
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${bindir}/sethdlc"
+FILES:${PN} += "${bindir}/sethdlc"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/snort/snort_2.9.18.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/snort/snort_2.9.18.bb
index cca18d726c..47c201fa13 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/snort/snort_2.9.18.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/snort/snort_2.9.18.bb
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[appid] = "--enable-open-appid, --disable-open-appid, luajit, bash"
 CFLAGS += "-I${STAGING_INCDIR}/tirpc"
 LDFLAGS += " -ltirpc"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/snort/rules
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/snort/preproc_rules
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
@@ -77,30 +77,30 @@ do_install_append() {
    sed -i -e 's|-ffile-prefix-map[^ ]*||g; s|-fdebug-prefix-map[^ ]*||g; s|-fmacro-prefix-map[^ ]*||g; s|${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}||g' ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig/*.pc
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN}() {
+pkg_postinst:${PN}() {
    if [ -z "$D" ] && [ -e ${sysconfdir}/init.d/populate-volatile.sh ]; then
        ${sysconfdir}/init.d/populate-volatile.sh update
    fi
 }
-FILES_${PN} += " \
+FILES:${PN} += " \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicengine/*.so.* \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicpreprocessor/*.so.* \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicrules/*.so.* \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += " \
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += " \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicengine/.debug \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicpreprocessor/.debug \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicrules/.debug \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += " \
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += " \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicengine/*.a \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicpreprocessor/*.a \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicrules/*.a \
    ${libdir}/snort/dynamic_preproc/*.a \
    ${libdir}/snort/dynamic_output/*.a \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-dev += " \
+FILES:${PN}-dev += " \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicengine/*.la \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicpreprocessor/*.la \
    ${libdir}/snort_dynamicrules/*.la \
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/ufw/ufw_0.36.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/ufw/ufw_0.36.bb
index 8e35dc01ed..40188cea21 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/ufw/ufw_0.36.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/ufw/ufw_0.36.bb
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "754b22ae5edff0273460ac9f57509c3938187e0cf4fb9692c6a02833ff
 inherit setuptools3 features_check systemd update-rc.d
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
                  iptables \
                  python3 \
                  python3-modules \
                 "
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = " \
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = " \
                     kernel-module-ipv6 \
                     kernel-module-nf-conntrack-ipv6 \
                     kernel-module-nf-log-common \
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = " \
                     kernel-module-nf-recent \
 "
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/
    install -m 0644 ${S}/doc/systemd.example ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/ufw.service
@@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ do_install_append() {
    install -m 0755 ${S}/doc/initscript.example ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/ufw
 }
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "ufw.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "ufw.service"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "ufw"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults"
 # Certain items are explicitly put under /lib, not base_libdir when installed.
 #
-FILES_${PN} += " \
+FILES:${PN} += " \
                ${sbindir}/* \
                ${datadir}/ufw/* \
                /lib/ufw/* \
@@ -64,5 +64,5 @@ FILES_${PN} += " \
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "ipv6"
-DISTUTILS_BUILD_ARGS_append = " --iptables-dir /usr/sbin"
+DISTUTILS_BUILD_ARGS:append = " --iptables-dir /usr/sbin"
-DISTUTILS_INSTALL_ARGS_append = " --iptables-dir /usr/sbin"
+DISTUTILS_INSTALL_ARGS:append = " --iptables-dir /usr/sbin"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vlan/vlan_1.9.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vlan/vlan_1.9.bb
index 4c3d95bd8a..8f899e62de 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vlan/vlan_1.9.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vlan/vlan_1.9.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ inherit update-alternatives
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-e MAKEFLAGS="
 # comment out MakeInclude in Makefile which sets build environment
-do_configure_append () {
+do_configure:append () {
    sed -i 's/^ include/#^include/' ${S}/Makefile
 }
@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@ do_install () {
 }
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "vconfig"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "vconfig"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[vconfig] = "${base_sbindir}/vconfig"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3.bb
index 54e855a099..63a0494e4e 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3.bb
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ inherit perlnative pkgconfig
 #EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-e MAKEFLAGS="
-do_configure_append () {
+do_configure:append () {
    # Make sure we use our nativeperl wrapper
    sed -i "1s:#!.*:#!/usr/bin/env nativeperl:" ${S}/*.pl
    cp ${WORKDIR}/long-help ${S}
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ vpnc_sysroot_preprocess () {
    install -m 755 ${D}${sysconfdir}/vpnc/vpnc-script ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${sysconfdir}/vpnc
 }
-FILES_${PN}-script = "${sysconfdir}/vpnc/vpnc-script"
+FILES:${PN}-script = "${sysconfdir}/vpnc/vpnc-script"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/vpnc/default.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/vpnc/default.conf"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "perl-module-io-file ${PN}-script"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "perl-module-io-file ${PN}-script"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "kernel-module-tun"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "kernel-module-tun"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/wolfssl/wolfssl_4.7.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/wolfssl/wolfssl_4.7.1.bb
index 76a5fd75cf..c2b3c3d63a 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/wolfssl/wolfssl_4.7.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/wolfssl/wolfssl_4.7.1.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 PROVIDES += "cyassl"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} = "cyassl"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "cyassl"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl.git;protocol=https \
 "
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-networking.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-networking.bb
index 31f9aef48b..59eb14a55b 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-networking.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-networking.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ PACKAGES = ' \
    packagegroup-meta-networking-support \
 '
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking = "\
    packagegroup-meta-networking-connectivity \
    packagegroup-meta-networking-daemons  \
    packagegroup-meta-networking-devtools \
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking = "\
    packagegroup-meta-networking-support \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-connectivity = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-connectivity = "\
    crda \
    daq \
    adcli \
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-connectivity = "\
    dhcp-relay \
 "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-connectivity_remove_libc-musl = "rdist"
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-connectivity:remove:libc-musl = "rdist"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-daemons = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-daemons = "\
    atftp \
    autofs \
    cyrus-sasl \
@@ -97,20 +97,20 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-daemons = "\
    opensaf \
 "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-daemons_remove_libc-musl = "opensaf"
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-daemons:remove:libc-musl = "opensaf"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-devtools = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-devtools = "\
    python3-ldap \
    python3-scapy \
 "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-extended = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-extended = "\
    corosync \
    ${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "systemd", "dlm", "", d)} \
    kronosnet \
 "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-filter = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-filter = "\
    libnftnl \
    conntrack-tools \
    ebtables \
@@ -127,16 +127,16 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-filter = "\
    nftables \
 "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-irc = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-irc = "\
    weechat \
    znc \
 "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-kernel = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-kernel = "\
    wireguard-tools \
 "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-netkit = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-netkit = "\
    netkit-rwho-client \
    netkit-rwho-server \
    netkit-rsh-client \
@@ -148,10 +148,10 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-netkit = "\
    netkit-rpc \
    "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-netkit_remove_libc-musl = " \
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-netkit:remove:libc-musl = " \
    netkit-rsh-client netkit-rsh-server netkit-telnet"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-protocols = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-protocols = "\
    babeld \
    ${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "pam", "dante", "", d)} \
    freediameter \
@@ -172,9 +172,9 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-protocols = "\
    xl2tpd \
 "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-protocols_remove_libc-musl = "mdns"
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-protocols:remove:libc-musl = "mdns"
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-support = "\
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-support = "\
    aoetools \
    arptables \
    bridge-utils \
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-support = "\
    wpan-tools \
    ettercap \
 "
-RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-networking-support_remove_mipsarch = "memcached"
+RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-support:remove:mipsarch = "memcached"
 EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"
 # Empty packages, only devel headers and libs
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/atftp/atftp_0.7.4.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/atftp/atftp_0.7.4.bb
index 936fc723f7..7661e9c48e 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/atftp/atftp_0.7.4.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/atftp/atftp_0.7.4.bb
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[tcp-wrappers] = "--enable-libwrap,--disable-libwrap,tcp-wrappers"
 PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--enable-libreadline,--disable-libreadline,readline"
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}d"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}d = "atftpd"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}d = "atftpd"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN}d = "defaults 80"
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN}d = "defaults 80"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "CFLAGS='${CFLAGS} -std=gnu89'"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/atftpd.init ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/atftpd
@@ -41,16 +41,16 @@ do_install_append() {
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}d"
-FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN} = "${bindir}/*"
-FILES_${PN}d = "${sbindir}/* \
+FILES:${PN}d = "${sbindir}/* \
    ${sysconfdir} \
    /srv/tftp \
    ${systemd_unitdir}/system/atftpd.service \
 "
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}d"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}d = "atftpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}d = "atftpd.service"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}d += "${PN}d-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}d += "${PN}d-systemd"
-RREPLACES_${PN}d += "${PN}d-systemd"
+RREPLACES:${PN}d += "${PN}d-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN}d += "${PN}d-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN}d += "${PN}d-systemd"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/autofs/autofs_5.1.7.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/autofs/autofs_5.1.7.bb
index fd49e53bbd..3fc574fd0a 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/autofs/autofs_5.1.7.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/autofs/autofs_5.1.7.bb
@@ -60,14 +60,14 @@ CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS = "ac_cv_path_RANLIB=${RANLIB} \
                        piddir=/run \
 "
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
    if [ ! -e ${S}/acinclude.m4 ]; then
        cp ${S}/aclocal.m4 ${S}/acinclude.m4
    fi
    cp ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/aclocal/pkg.m4 .
 }
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    # samples have been removed from SUBDIRS from 5.1.5, need to install separately
    oe_runmake 'DESTDIR=${D}' install_samples
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ SOLIBS = ".so"
 FILES_SOLIBSDEV = ""
 # Some symlinks are created in plugins dir e.g.
 # mount_nfs4.so -> mount_nfs.so
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "dev-so"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RREPLACES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RREPLACES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "autofs.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "autofs.service"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl_2.1.27.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl_2.1.27.bb
index c4b41ace8c..46aeb23a3b 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl_2.1.27.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl_2.1.27.bb
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[ntlm] = "--enable-ntlm=yes,--enable-ntlm=no,,"
 CFLAGS += "-fPIC"
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
    # make it be able to work with db 5.0 version
    local sed_files="sasldb/db_berkeley.c utils/dbconverter-2.c"
    for sed_file in $sed_files; do
@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ do_configure_prepend () {
    done
 }
-do_compile_prepend () {
+do_compile:prepend () {
    cd include
    ${BUILD_CC} ${BUILD_CFLAGS} ${BUILD_LDFLAGS} ${S}/include/makemd5.c -o makemd5
    touch makemd5.o makemd5.lo makemd5
    cd ..
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','true','false',d)}; then
        install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/saslauthd.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
@@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ do_install_append() {
 }
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}-bin"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN}-bin = "--system --home=/var/spool/mail -g mail cyrus"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN}-bin = "--system --home=/var/spool/mail -g mail cyrus"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}-bin"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-bin = "saslauthd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-bin = "saslauthd.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a7f4e5e559a0e37b3ffc438c9456e425"
@@ -86,16 +86,16 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8fbc5136512b59bb793657f36fadda6359cae3b08f01fd16b3d406f134
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-bin"
-FILES_${PN}           += "${libdir}/sasl2/*.so*"
+FILES:${PN}           += "${libdir}/sasl2/*.so*"
-FILES_${PN}-bin       += "${bindir} \
+FILES:${PN}-bin       += "${bindir} \
                          ${sysconfdir}/default/saslauthd \
                          ${systemd_unitdir}/system/saslauthd.service \
                          ${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/saslauthd.conf"
-FILES_${PN}-dev       += "${libdir}/sasl2/*.la"
+FILES:${PN}-dev       += "${libdir}/sasl2/*.la"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg       += "${libdir}/sasl2/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg       += "${libdir}/sasl2/.debug"
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/sasl2/*.a"
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/sasl2/*.a"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} += "dev-so"
 # CVE-2020-8032 affects only openSUSE
 CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2020-8032"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ippool/ippool_1.3.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ippool/ippool_1.3.bb
index 3554e688ab..19fbd0fa24 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ippool/ippool_1.3.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ippool/ippool_1.3.bb
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "d3eab7d6cad5da8ccc9d1e31d5303e27a39622c07bdb8fa3618eea3144
 inherit systemd
 DEPENDS = "readline ppp ncurses gzip-native rpcsvc-proto-native libtirpc"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "rpcbind"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "rpcbind"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "CC='${CC}' AS='${AS}' LD='${LD}' AR='${AR}' NM='${NM}' STRIP='${STRIP}'"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += "PPPD_VERSION=${PPPD_VERSION} SYS_LIBDIR=${libdir}"
@@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE += "IPPOOL_TEST=y"
 CPPFLAGS += "${SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION} -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/tirpc"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "ippool.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "ippool.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
-do_compile_prepend() {
+do_compile:prepend() {
    # fix the CFLAGS= and CPPFLAGS= in main Makefile, to have the extra CFLAGS in env
    sed -i -e "s/^CFLAGS=/CFLAGS+=/" ${S}/Makefile
    sed -i -e "s/^CPPFLAGS=/CPPFLAGS+=/" ${S}/Makefile
@@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ do_install() {
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-test"
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/pppd/${PPPD_VERSION}/ippool.so"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/pppd/${PPPD_VERSION}/ippool.so"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/pppd/${PPPD_VERSION}/.debug/ippool.so"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/pppd/${PPPD_VERSION}/.debug/ippool.so"
-FILES_${PN}-test = "/opt/${BPN}"
+FILES:${PN}-test = "/opt/${BPN}"
 # needs tcl to run tests
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-test += "tcl ${BPN}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-test += "tcl ${BPN}"
 PPPD_VERSION="${@get_ppp_version(d)}"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/iscsi-initiator-utils/iscsi-initiator-utils_2.1.4.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/iscsi-initiator-utils/iscsi-initiator-utils_2.1.4.bb
index 8a3dd011e4..8e0da23b68 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/iscsi-initiator-utils/iscsi-initiator-utils_2.1.4.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/iscsi-initiator-utils/iscsi-initiator-utils_2.1.4.bb
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ do_install () {
    fi
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN}() {
+pkg_postinst:${PN}() {
    if [ "x$D" = "x" ]; then
        if [ -e /etc/init.d/populate-volatile.sh ]; then
            /etc/init.d/populate-volatile.sh update
@@ -114,4 +114,4 @@ SYSTEMD_SERVICE = " iscsi-initiator.service iscsi-initiator-targets.service "
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "iscsid"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 30 1 2 3 4 5 . stop 70 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ."
-FILES_${PN} += "${nonarch_libdir}/iscsi"
+FILES:${PN} += "${nonarch_libdir}/iscsi"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/keepalived/keepalived_2.2.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/keepalived/keepalived_2.2.2.bb
index f0cbca1bec..d04b73876d 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/keepalived/keepalived_2.2.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/keepalived/keepalived_2.2.2.bb
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-init=systemd --with-systemdsystemunitdir=${syst
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "initdir=${sysconfdir}/init.d"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    if [ -f ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/${BPN} ]; then
        chmod 0755 ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/${BPN}
        sed -i 's#rc.d/##' ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/${BPN}
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ do_install_append() {
    fi
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/snmp/mibs/KEEPALIVED-MIB.txt"
+FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/snmp/mibs/KEEPALIVED-MIB.txt"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "keepalived.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "keepalived.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE ?= "disable"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/lldpd/lldpd_1.0.8.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/lldpd/lldpd_1.0.8.bb
index bd94c09198..d5e9e2c303 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/lldpd/lldpd_1.0.8.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/lldpd/lldpd_1.0.8.bb
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "98d200e76e30f6262c4a4493148c1840827898329146a57a34f8f0f928
 inherit autotools update-rc.d useradd systemd pkgconfig bash-completion
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system -g lldpd --shell /bin/false lldpd"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system -g lldpd --shell /bin/false lldpd"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system lldpd"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system lldpd"
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--without-embedded-libevent \
                 --disable-oldies \
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[custom] = "--enable-custom,--disable-custom"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "lldpd"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "lldpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "lldpd.service"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -Dm 0755 ${WORKDIR}/lldpd.init.d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/lldpd
    install -Dm 0644 ${WORKDIR}/lldpd.default ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/lldpd
    # Make an empty configuration file
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ do_install_append() {
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-zsh-completion"
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/sysusers.d"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/sysusers.d"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "os-release"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "os-release"
-FILES_${PN}-zsh-completion += "${datadir}/zsh/"
+FILES:${PN}-zsh-completion += "${datadir}/zsh/"
 # FIXME: zsh is broken in meta-oe so this cannot be enabled for now
 #RDEPENDS_${PN}-zsh-completion += "zsh"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ncftp/ncftp_3.2.6.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ncftp/ncftp_3.2.6.bb
index ee6da5737f..592f98f9d3 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ncftp/ncftp_3.2.6.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ncftp/ncftp_3.2.6.bb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[ccdv] = "--enable-ccdv,--disable-ccdv,,"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-precomp"
-TARGET_CC_ARCH_append = " ${SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION}"
+TARGET_CC_ARCH:append = " ${SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION}"
 do_configure() {
    install -m 0755 ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gnu-config/config.guess ${S}
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/networkd-dispatcher/networkd-dispatcher_2.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/networkd-dispatcher/networkd-dispatcher_2.1.bb
index a697e983f6..5159cf51e4 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/networkd-dispatcher/networkd-dispatcher_2.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/networkd-dispatcher/networkd-dispatcher_2.1.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=84dcc94da3adb52b53ae4fa38fe49e5d"
 inherit features_check systemd
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "python3-pygobject python3-dbus"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "python3-pygobject python3-dbus"
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "systemd"
 SRCREV = "30e278e50749a60a930ceaa0971207c6436b8a0c"
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://gitlab.com/craftyguy/networkd-dispatcher;protocol=https;nobranc
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "networkd-dispatcher.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "networkd-dispatcher.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
 # Nothing to build, just a python script to install
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/openhpi/openhpi_3.8.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/openhpi/openhpi_3.8.0.bb
index e8d19a2c0b..bacf984e74 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/openhpi/openhpi_3.8.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/openhpi/openhpi_3.8.0.bb
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig ptest update-rc.d systemd
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-libs"
-FILES_${PN}-libs = "${libdir}/${BPN}/*.so /usr/lib/${BPN}/*.so"
+FILES:${PN}-libs = "${libdir}/${BPN}/*.so /usr/lib/${BPN}/*.so"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-libs = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-libs = "dev-so"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-libs"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${PN}-libs"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "libgcrypt non32bit snmp-bc"
 PACKAGECONFIG[sysfs] = "--enable-sysfs,--disable-sysfs,sysfsutils,"
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[snmp-bc] = "--enable-snmp_bc,--disable-snmp_bc"
 export DISTRO
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    install -m 0755 -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/${BPN}
    install -m 0644 ${S}/openhpiclient.conf.example ${D}${sysconfdir}/${BPN}/openhpiclient.conf
    install -m 0600 ${S}/openhpi.conf.example ${D}${sysconfdir}/${BPN}/openhpi.conf
@@ -134,5 +134,5 @@ do_install_ptest () {
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "openhpid"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 30 . stop 70 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ."
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "openhpid.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "openhpid.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/opensaf/opensaf_5.21.06.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/opensaf/opensaf_5.21.06.bb
index a971677203..caa85e040a 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/opensaf/opensaf_5.21.06.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/opensaf/opensaf_5.21.06.bb
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensaf/files/releases"
 inherit autotools useradd systemd pkgconfig
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "-f -r opensaf"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "-f -r opensaf"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} =  "-r -g opensaf -d ${datadir}/opensaf/ -s ${sbindir}/nologin -c \"OpenSAF\" opensaf"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} =  "-r -g opensaf -d ${datadir}/opensaf/ -s ${sbindir}/nologin -c \"OpenSAF\" opensaf"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} += "opensafd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} += "opensafd.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
 PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = ",,systemd"
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ CPPFLAGS += "-Wno-error=stringop-overflow= -Wno-error=stringop-truncation"
 CXXFLAGS += "-Wno-error=stringop-overflow= -Wno-error=stringop-truncation -Wno-error=format-truncation="
 LDFLAGS += "-Wl,--as-needed -latomic -Wl,--no-as-needed"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    rm -fr "${D}${localstatedir}/lock"
    rm -fr "${D}${localstatedir}/run"
    rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "${D}${localstatedir}"
@@ -64,15 +64,15 @@ do_install_append() {
    fi
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/libSa*.so ${systemd_unitdir}/system/*.service"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/libSa*.so ${systemd_unitdir}/system/*.service"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/libopensaf_core.so"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/libopensaf_core.so"
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += "${PKGLIBDIR}/*.a"
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${PKGLIBDIR}/*.a"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "dev-so"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "bash python3-core"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "bash python3-core"
 # http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/186970/
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_libc-musl = 'null'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = 'null'
 FILES_SOLIBSDEV = ""
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/postfix/postfix.inc b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/postfix/postfix.inc
index 4b9940cc7a..7bf258374c 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/postfix/postfix.inc
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/postfix/postfix.inc
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ inherit update-rc.d useradd update-alternatives systemd lib_package
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "postfix"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 58 3 4 5 . stop 13 0 1 6 ."
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}-bin"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN}-bin = \
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN}-bin = \
 "-d /var/spool/postfix -r -g postfix --shell /bin/false postfix; \
 -d /var/spool/vmail -r -g vmail --shell /bin/false vmail \
 "
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN}-bin = "--system postfix;--system postdrop;--system vmail"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN}-bin = "--system postfix;--system postdrop;--system vmail"
 export SYSLIBS = "${LDFLAGS}"
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ export AUXLIBS-ldap = "\
    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ldap', '-lldap -llber', '', d)}"
 # no native openldap
-export CCARGS-ldap_class-native = ""
+export CCARGS-ldap:class-native = ""
-export AUXLIBS-ldap_class-native = ""
+export AUXLIBS-ldap:class-native = ""
-export CCARGS-nonis_libc-musl = "-DNO_NIS"
+export CCARGS-nonis:libc-musl = "-DNO_NIS"
 export CCARGS-nonis = ""
 # SASL support -DUSE_LDAP_SASL -DUSE_SASL_AUTH
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ export CCARGS-sasl  = "\
    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sasl', '-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/sasl', '', d)}"
 export AUXLIBS-sasl = "\
    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sasl', '-lsasl2', '', d)}"
-export CCARGS-sasl_class-native = ""
+export CCARGS-sasl:class-native = ""
-export AUXLIBS-sasl_class-native = ""
+export AUXLIBS-sasl:class-native = ""
 # PCRE, TLS support default
 export CCARGS  = "${CFLAGS} -DHAS_PCRE -DUSE_TLS -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/openssl ${CCARGS-ldap} ${CCARGS-sasl} ${CCARGS-nonis}"
@@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ do_compile () {
    oe_runmake
 }
-do_install_prepend_class-native() {
+do_install:prepend:class-native() {
    export POSTCONF="bin/postconf"
 }
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "postfix.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "postfix.service"
 do_install () {
    sh ./postfix-install 'install_root=${D}' \
@@ -180,14 +180,14 @@ do_install () {
    rm -rf ${D}/etc/postfix/makedefs.out
 }
-do_install_append_class-native() {
+do_install:append:class-native() {
    ln -sf ../sbin/sendmail.postfix ${D}${bindir}/newaliases
    ln -sf ../sbin/sendmail.postfix ${D}${bindir}/mailq
 }
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-bin = "sendmail mailq newaliases"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-bin = "sendmail mailq newaliases"
 # /usr/lib/sendmial is required by LSB core test
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-bin_linuxstdbase = "sendmail mailq newaliases usr-lib-sendmail"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-bin:linuxstdbase = "sendmail mailq newaliases usr-lib-sendmail"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[mailq] = "${bindir}/mailq"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[newaliases] = "${bindir}/newaliases"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[sendmail] = "${sbindir}/sendmail.postfix"
@@ -197,12 +197,12 @@ ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[usr-lib-sendmail] = "/usr/lib/sendmail"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "120"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc += "mailq.1 newaliases.1 sendmail.1"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc += "mailq.1 newaliases.1 sendmail.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[mailq.1] = "${mandir}/man1/mailq.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[newaliases.1] = "${mandir}/man1/newaliases.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sendmail.1] = "${mandir}/man1/sendmail.1"
-pkg_postinst_ontarget_${PN}-cfg () {
+pkg_postinst_ontarget:${PN}-cfg () {
    touch /etc/aliases
    newaliases
@@ -212,11 +212,11 @@ pkg_postinst_ontarget_${PN}-cfg () {
 }
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-cfg"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-cfg_class-target += "${PN}-bin"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-cfg:class-target += "${PN}-bin"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-target += "${PN}-cfg"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-target += "${PN}-cfg"
 # Exclude .debug directories from the main package
-FILES_${PN}-bin += "${localstatedir} ${bindir}/* ${sbindir}/* \
+FILES:${PN}-bin += "${localstatedir} ${bindir}/* ${sbindir}/* \
               ${libexecdir}/* ${systemd_unitdir}/*"
-FILES_${PN}-cfg = "${sysconfdir}"
+FILES:${PN}-cfg = "${sysconfdir}"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libexecdir}/postfix/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libexecdir}/postfix/.debug"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/proftpd/proftpd_1.3.7a.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/proftpd/proftpd_1.3.7a.bb
index f2a89e5a2f..981757b563 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/proftpd/proftpd_1.3.7a.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/proftpd/proftpd_1.3.7a.bb
@@ -131,15 +131,15 @@ INITSCRIPT_NAME = "proftpd"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAM = "defaults 85 15"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "proftpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "proftpd.service"
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system ${FTPGROUP}"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system ${FTPGROUP}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system -g ${FTPGROUP} --home-dir /var/lib/${FTPUSER} --no-create-home \
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system -g ${FTPGROUP} --home-dir /var/lib/${FTPUSER} --no-create-home \
                       --shell /bin/false ${FTPUSER}"
 MULTILIB_SCRIPTS = "${PN}:${bindir}/prxs"
-FILES_${PN} += "/home/${FTPUSER}"
+FILES:${PN} += "/home/${FTPUSER}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ptpd/ptpd_2.3.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ptpd/ptpd_2.3.1.bb
index 227c9f9170..d1eb6e28fc 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ptpd/ptpd_2.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/ptpd/ptpd_2.3.1.bb
@@ -58,5 +58,5 @@ do_install() {
 }
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "ptpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "ptpd.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/radvd/radvd.inc b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/radvd/radvd.inc
index 802dbe34e9..2afaa48411 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/radvd/radvd.inc
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/radvd/radvd.inc
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ SRC_URI = "http://v6web.litech.org/radvd/dist/radvd-${PV}.tar.gz \
 inherit autotools useradd pkgconfig systemd
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "radvd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "radvd.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    install -m 0755 -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d \
                       ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/volatiles \
                       ${D}${docdir}/radvd
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ do_install_append () {
 }
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system --home ${localstatedir}/run/radvd/ -M -g nogroup radvd"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system --home ${localstatedir}/run/radvd/ -M -g nogroup radvd"
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
    if [ -z "$D" -a -x /etc/init.d/populate-volatile.sh ]; then
        /etc/init.d/populate-volatile.sh update
    fi
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/squid/squid_4.15.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/squid/squid_4.15.bb
index 8ba10674c9..5af00d6269 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/squid/squid_4.15.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/squid/squid_4.15.bb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v${MAJ_VER}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2
           file://0001-Fix-build-on-Fedora-Rawhide-772.patch \
           "
-SRC_URI_remove_toolchain-clang = "file://0001-configure-Check-for-Wno-error-format-truncation-comp.patch"
+SRC_URI:remove:toolchain-clang = "file://0001-configure-Check-for-Wno-error-format-truncation-comp.patch"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "71635811e766ce8b155225a9e3c7757cfc7ff93df26b28d82e5e6fc021b9a605"
@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ DEPENDS = "libtool krb5 openldap db cyrus-sasl"
 inherit autotools pkgconfig useradd ptest perlnative
-LDFLAGS_append_mipsarch = " -latomic"
+LDFLAGS:append:mipsarch = " -latomic"
-LDFLAGS_append_powerpc = " -latomic"
+LDFLAGS:append:powerpc = " -latomic"
-LDFLAGS_append_riscv64 = " -latomic"
+LDFLAGS:append:riscv64 = " -latomic"
-LDFLAGS_append_riscv32 = " -latomic"
+LDFLAGS:append:riscv32 = " -latomic"
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system --no-create-home --home-dir /var/run/squid --shell /bin/false --user-group squid"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system --no-create-home --home-dir /var/run/squid --shell /bin/false --user-group squid"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ipv6', d)} \
                  "
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ export BUILDCXXFLAGS="${BUILD_CXXFLAGS}"
 TESTDIR = "test-suite"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    export SYSROOT=$PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
 }
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ do_install_ptest() {
    sed -i 's:^TRUE = .*$:TRUE = /bin/true:' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/${TESTDIR}/Makefile
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d
        echo "d ${localstatedir}/run/${BPN} 0755 squid squid -" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/${BPN}.conf
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ do_install_append() {
    rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "${D}${localstatedir}/log"
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir} ${datadir}/errors ${datadir}/icons"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir} ${datadir}/errors ${datadir}/icons"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "/usr/src/debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "/usr/src/debug"
-FILES_${PN}-doc += "${datadir}/*.txt"
+FILES:${PN}-doc += "${datadir}/*.txt"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "make"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/tftp-hpa/tftp-hpa_5.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/tftp-hpa/tftp-hpa_5.2.bb
index dc1d6c67ef..af42bda93c 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/tftp-hpa/tftp-hpa_5.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/tftp-hpa/tftp-hpa_5.2.bb
@@ -72,26 +72,26 @@ do_install() {
    sed -i -e 's,@SBINDIR@,${sbindir},g' ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/tftpd-hpa.service
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}"
+FILES:${PN} = "${bindir}"
 PACKAGES += "tftp-hpa-server"
-SUMMARY_tftp-hpa-server = "Server for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol"
+SUMMARY:tftp-hpa-server = "Server for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol"
-FILES_tftp-hpa-server = "${sbindir} ${sysconfdir} ${localstatedir}"
+FILES:tftp-hpa-server = "${sbindir} ${sysconfdir} ${localstatedir}"
-CONFFILES_tftp-hpa-server = "${sysconfdir}/default/tftpd-hpa"
+CONFFILES:tftp-hpa-server = "${sysconfdir}/default/tftpd-hpa"
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "tftp-hpa-server"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "tftpd-hpa"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 1 ."
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "tftpd.8 tftp.1"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "tftpd.8 tftp.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[tftpd.8] = "${mandir}/man8/tftpd.8"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[tftp.1] = "${mandir}/man1/tftp.1"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "tftp"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "tftp"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[tftp] = "${bindir}/tftp-hpa"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "tftp-hpa-server"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_tftp-hpa-server = "tftpd-hpa.socket tftpd-hpa.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:tftp-hpa-server = "tftpd-hpa.socket tftpd-hpa.service"
-SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_tftp-hpa-server = "enable"
+SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:tftp-hpa-server = "enable"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/vblade/vblade_25.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/vblade/vblade_25.bb
index 647abbfd26..15bf350c77 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/vblade/vblade_25.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/vblade/vblade_25.bb
@@ -51,5 +51,5 @@ do_install() {
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "vblade"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 30 . stop 70 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ."
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "vblade.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "vblade.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/vsftpd/vsftpd_3.0.3.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/vsftpd/vsftpd_3.0.3.bb
index 024b776def..cf3d7fc966 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/vsftpd/vsftpd_3.0.3.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-daemons/vsftpd/vsftpd_3.0.3.bb
@@ -39,16 +39,16 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= "tcp-wrappers"
 PACKAGECONFIG[tcp-wrappers] = ",,tcp-wrappers"
 DEPENDS += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'libpam', '', d)}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'pam-plugin-listfile', '', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'pam-plugin-listfile', '', d)}"
 PAMLIB = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '-L${STAGING_BASELIBDIR} -lpam', '', d)}"
 WRAPLIB = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'tcp-wrappers', '-lwrap', '', d)}"
 NOPAM_SRC ="${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'tcp-wrappers', 'file://nopam-with-tcp_wrappers.patch', 'file://nopam.patch', d)}"
 inherit update-rc.d useradd systemd
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/vsftpd.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/vsftpd.conf"
-LDFLAGS_append =" -lcrypt -lcap"
+LDFLAGS:append =" -lcrypt -lcap"
-CFLAGS_append_libc-musl = " -D_GNU_SOURCE -include fcntl.h"
+CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = " -D_GNU_SOURCE -include fcntl.h"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-e MAKEFLAGS="
 do_configure() {
@@ -95,17 +95,17 @@ do_install() {
 }
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN} = "vsftpd"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN} = "vsftpd"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN} = "defaults 80"
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN} = "defaults 80"
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system --home-dir /var/lib/ftp --no-create-home -g ftp \
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system --home-dir /var/lib/ftp --no-create-home -g ftp \
                       --shell /bin/false ftp "
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "-r ftp"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "-r ftp"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "vsftpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "vsftpd.service"
-pkg_postinst_${PN}() {
+pkg_postinst:${PN}() {
    if [ -z "$D" ]; then
        if type systemd-tmpfiles >/dev/null; then
            systemd-tmpfiles --create
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-devtools/python/python3-ldap_3.3.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-devtools/python/python3-ldap_3.3.1.bb
index 4a2ab3efbb..0f62b5790d 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-devtools/python/python3-ldap_3.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-devtools/python/python3-ldap_3.3.1.bb
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE;md5=36ce9d726d0321b73c1521704d07db1b"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "7608579722c491e42f5f63b3f88a95fb"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "4711cacf013e298754abd70058ccc995758177fb425f1c2d30e71adfc1d00aa5"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    sed -i -e 's:^library_dirs =.*::' ${S}/setup.cfg
    sed -i -e 's:^include_dirs =.*:include_dirs = =/usr/include/sasl/:' ${S}/setup.cfg
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = " \
    ${PYTHON_PN}-pprint \
    ${PYTHON_PN}-threading \
    ${PYTHON_PN}-pyasn1 \
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-devtools/python/python3-scapy_2.4.5.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-devtools/python/python3-scapy_2.4.5.bb
index 01ca63746b..84acc86817 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-devtools/python/python3-scapy_2.4.5.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-devtools/python/python3-scapy_2.4.5.bb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS = "1"
 inherit setuptools3 ptest
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        mv ${D}${bindir}/scapy ${D}${bindir}/scapy3
        mv ${D}${bindir}/UTscapy ${D}${bindir}/UTscapy3
 }
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ do_install_ptest() {
    sed -i 's,@PTEST_PATH@,${PTEST_PATH},' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/run-ptest
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "tcpdump ${PYTHON_PN}-compression ${PYTHON_PN}-cryptography ${PYTHON_PN}-netclient  \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "tcpdump ${PYTHON_PN}-compression ${PYTHON_PN}-cryptography ${PYTHON_PN}-netclient  \
                  ${PYTHON_PN}-netserver ${PYTHON_PN}-pydoc ${PYTHON_PN}-pkgutil ${PYTHON_PN}-shell \
                  ${PYTHON_PN}-threading ${PYTHON_PN}-numbers ${PYTHON_PN}-pycrypto"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-extended/corosync/corosync_3.0.3.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-extended/corosync/corosync_3.0.3.bb
index c0531d3866..0af954c310 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-extended/corosync/corosync_3.0.3.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-extended/corosync/corosync_3.0.3.bb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=a85eb4ce24033adb6088dd1d6ffc5e5d"
 DEPENDS = "groff-native nss libqb kronosnet"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "corosync.service corosync-notifyd.service \
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "corosync.service corosync-notifyd.service \
                         ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'qdevice', 'corosync-qdevice.service', '', d)} \
                         ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'qnetd', 'corosync-qnetd.service', '', d)} \
 "
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE = "tmpfilesdir_DATA="
 #    ${S}/autogen.sh )
 #}
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -D -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/corosync.conf ${D}/${sysconfdir}/corosync/corosync.conf.example
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/
    install -m 0644 ${S}/init/corosync.sysconfig.example ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/corosync
@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ do_install_append() {
    fi
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "bash ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', 'sysvinit-pidof', 'procps', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "bash ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', 'sysvinit-pidof', 'procps', d)}"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libexecdir}/lcrso/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libexecdir}/lcrso/.debug"
-FILES_${PN}-doc += "${datadir}/snmp/mibs/COROSYNC-MIB.txt"
+FILES:${PN}-doc += "${datadir}/snmp/mibs/COROSYNC-MIB.txt"
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system coroqnetd"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system coroqnetd"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system -d / -M -s /bin/nologin -c 'User for corosync-qnetd' -g coroqnetd coroqnetd"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system -d / -M -s /bin/nologin -c 'User for corosync-qnetd' -g coroqnetd coroqnetd"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-extended/dlm/dlm_4.0.9.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-extended/dlm/dlm_4.0.9.bb
index 577db7087f..b99c30cc9e 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-extended/dlm/dlm_4.0.9.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-extended/dlm/dlm_4.0.9.bb
@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[pacemaker] = ",,pacemaker"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "dlm.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "dlm.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "enable"
 export EXTRA_OEMAKE = ""
 DONTBUILD = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'pacemaker', '', 'fence', d)}"
-do_compile_prepend_toolchain-clang() {
+do_compile:prepend:toolchain-clang() {
    sed -i -e "s/-fstack-clash-protection//g" ${S}/*/Makefile
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-extended/kronosnet/kronosnet_1.20.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-extended/kronosnet/kronosnet_1.20.bb
index a468a9ab6f..edbca246de 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-extended/kronosnet/kronosnet_1.20.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-extended/kronosnet/kronosnet_1.20.bb
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 # libknet/transport_udp.c:326:48: error: comparison of integers of different signs: 'unsigned long' and 'int' [-Werror,-Wsign-compare]
 # for (cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg);cmsg; cmsg = CMSG_NXTHDR(&msg, cmsg)) {
 #                                                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-CFLAGS_append_toolchain-clang = " -Wno-sign-compare"
+CFLAGS:append:toolchain-clang = " -Wno-sign-compare"
 PACKAGECONFIG[man] = "enable_man="yes", --disable-man, "
-PACKAGECONFIG_remove = "man"
+PACKAGECONFIG:remove = "man"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-filter/arno-iptables-firewall/arno-iptables-firewall_2.1.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-filter/arno-iptables-firewall/arno-iptables-firewall_2.1.1.bb
index bc9297eab6..48723d92b1 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-filter/arno-iptables-firewall/arno-iptables-firewall_2.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-filter/arno-iptables-firewall/arno-iptables-firewall_2.1.1.bb
@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ do_install() {
        sed -i -e 's%#!/bin/bash%#!/bin/sh%g' ${D}${datadir}/arno-iptables-firewall/plugins/dyndns-host-open-helper
 }
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "arno-iptables-firewall.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "arno-iptables-firewall.service"
-FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/arno-iptables-firewall.service"
+FILES:${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/arno-iptables-firewall.service"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-filter/conntrack-tools/conntrack-tools_1.4.6.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-filter/conntrack-tools/conntrack-tools_1.4.6.bb
index ad50a89a43..0e009da029 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-filter/conntrack-tools/conntrack-tools_1.4.6.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-filter/conntrack-tools/conntrack-tools_1.4.6.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ inherit autotools update-rc.d pkgconfig
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "conntrackd"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/conntrackd
    install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/init.d
    install -m 0644 ${S}/doc/sync/ftfw/conntrackd.conf ${D}/${sysconfdir}/conntrackd/conntrackd.conf.sample
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-filter/ebtables/ebtables_2.0.11.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-filter/ebtables/ebtables_2.0.11.bb
index bc33c18c0b..21e5c1877e 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-filter/ebtables/ebtables_2.0.11.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-filter/ebtables/ebtables_2.0.11.bb
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=53b4a999993871a28ab1488fdbd2e73e"
 SECTION = "net"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "bash perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "bash perl"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "kernel-module-ebtables \
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "kernel-module-ebtables \
    "
 SRC_URI = "http://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/ebtables/ebtables-${PV}.tar.gz \
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ SRC_URI = "http://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/ebtables/ebtables-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://ebtables.service \
           "
-SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = " file://0010-Adjust-header-include-sequence.patch"
+SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = " file://0010-Adjust-header-include-sequence.patch"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "071c8b0a59241667a0044fb040d4fc72"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b71f654784a726329f88b412ef7b96b4e5d786ed2bd28193ed7b4c0d677dfd2a"
 inherit systemd autotools
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
        # Replace upstream ebtables-save perl script with Fedora bash based rewrite
        # http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/ebtables.git/tree/ebtables-save
        rm -f ${D}${sbindir}/ebtables-legacy-save
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ do_install_append () {
        ln -sf ${sbindir}/ebtables-legacy ${D}${base_sbindir}/ebtables
 }
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
    ( cd ${S}; ./autogen.sh )
 }
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${base_libdir}/ebtables/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${base_libdir}/ebtables/.debug"
-FILES_${PN} += "${base_libdir}/ebtables/*.so"
+FILES:${PN} += "${base_libdir}/ebtables/*.so"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "ebtables.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "ebtables.service"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-filter/ipset/ipset_7.11.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-filter/ipset/ipset_7.11.bb
index 693aa90318..3e64f41596 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-filter/ipset/ipset_7.11.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-filter/ipset/ipset_7.11.bb
@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig module-base
 EXTRA_OECONF += "-with-kbuild=${KBUILD_OUTPUT} --with-ksource=${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "\
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "\
    kernel-module-ip-set \
 "
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-filter/nftables/nftables_0.9.9.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-filter/nftables/nftables_0.9.9.bb
index cbe2bb3996..cf7c01bbcf 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-filter/nftables/nftables_0.9.9.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-filter/nftables/nftables_0.9.9.bb
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[xtables] = "--with-xtables, --without-xtables, iptables"
 inherit ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'python', 'python3native', '', d)}
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "kernel-module-nf-tables"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "kernel-module-nf-tables"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-python"
-FILES_${PN}-python = "${nonarch_libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}"
+FILES:${PN}-python = "${nonarch_libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-python = "python3-core python3-json ${PN}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-python = "python3-core python3-json ${PN}"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-irc/weechat/weechat_3.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-irc/weechat/weechat_3.0.bb
index 6a0c9386c2..9f7e392973 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-irc/weechat/weechat_3.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-irc/weechat/weechat_3.0.bb
@@ -18,16 +18,16 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= " ncurses python"
 PACKAGECONFIG[ncurses] = "-DENABLE_NCURSES=ON,-DENABLE_NCURSES=OFF,ncurses"
 PACKAGECONFIG[python] = "-DENABLE_PYTHON=ON,-DENABLE_PYTHON=OFF,python3,python3"
-EXTRA_OECMAKE_append = " -DENABLE_PHP=OFF -DENABLE_TCL=OFF -DENABLE_LUA=OFF -DENABLE_JAVASCRIPT=OFF -DENABLE_RUBY=OFF -DENABLE_GUILE=OFF -DENABLE_PERL=OFF -DENABLE_ASPELL=ON"
+EXTRA_OECMAKE:append = " -DENABLE_PHP=OFF -DENABLE_TCL=OFF -DENABLE_LUA=OFF -DENABLE_JAVASCRIPT=OFF -DENABLE_RUBY=OFF -DENABLE_GUILE=OFF -DENABLE_PERL=OFF -DENABLE_ASPELL=ON"
-do_configure_prepend(){
+do_configure:prepend(){
    #  Make sure we get dependencies from recipe-sysroot
    sed -i -e 's# /usr/bin# ${RECIPE_SYSROOT}/${bindir}/#g' ${S}/cmake/FindPerl.cmake
    sed -i -e 's# /usr/local/bin##g' ${S}/cmake/FindPerl.cmake
    sed -i -e 's# /usr/pkg/bin##g' ${S}/cmake/FindPerl.cmake
 }
-do_install_append(){
+do_install:append(){
    rm -rf ${D}/${datadir}
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-irc/znc/znc_1.8.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-irc/znc/znc_1.8.2.bb
index 806d622d70..fff198d06a 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-irc/znc/znc_1.8.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-irc/znc/znc_1.8.2.bb
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ipv6', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[ipv6] = "--enable-ipv6,--disable-ipv6,"
 # ZNC has a custom autogen.sh that states that this command is needed *and* expected to fail
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    automake --add-missing || true
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    sed -i -e 's|${DEBUG_PREFIX_MAP}||g; s|--sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}||g' ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig/*.pc
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-kernel/wireguard/wireguard-module_1.0.20210219.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-kernel/wireguard/wireguard-module_1.0.20210219.bb
index 01e3b74c65..92614b22e5 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-kernel/wireguard/wireguard-module_1.0.20210219.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-kernel/wireguard/wireguard-module_1.0.20210219.bb
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@ DEPENDS = "virtual/kernel libmnl"
 # configuration options. For exact kernel requirements visit:
 # https://www.wireguard.io/install/#kernel-requirements
-EXTRA_OEMAKE_append = " \
+EXTRA_OEMAKE:append = " \
    KERNELDIR=${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR} \
    "
 MAKE_TARGETS = "module"
 MODULES_INSTALL_TARGET = "module-install"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "kernel-module-xt-hashlimit"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "kernel-module-xt-hashlimit"
 MODULE_NAME = "wireguard"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-kernel/wireguard/wireguard-tools_1.0.20210315.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-kernel/wireguard/wireguard-tools_1.0.20210315.bb
index f02303e0ea..b16e0c8292 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-kernel/wireguard/wireguard-tools_1.0.20210315.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-kernel/wireguard/wireguard-tools_1.0.20210315.bb
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ do_install () {
        install
 }
-FILES_${PN} = " \
+FILES:${PN} = " \
    ${sysconfdir} \
    ${systemd_system_unitdir} \
    ${bindir} \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "bash"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "kernel-module-wireguard"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "kernel-module-wireguard"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-ftp/netkit-ftp_0.17.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-ftp/netkit-ftp_0.17.bb
index 628047eee6..1ba0dd46a7 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-ftp/netkit-ftp_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-ftp/netkit-ftp_0.17.bb
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ do_install () {
 }
 PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-doc ${BPN}-dbg"
-FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN} = "${bindir}/*"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = "${mandir}"
+FILES:${PN}-doc = "${mandir}"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg = "${prefix}/src/debug \
+FILES:${PN}-dbg = "${prefix}/src/debug \
            ${bindir}/.debug"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "readline"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "readline"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "ftp"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "ftp"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[ftp] = "${bindir}/ftp"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rpc/netkit-rpc_0.17.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rpc/netkit-rpc_0.17.bb
index a787e52f7d..cb05645ee8 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rpc/netkit-rpc_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rpc/netkit-rpc_0.17.bb
@@ -47,5 +47,5 @@ do_install () {
 }
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "rpcinfo"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "rpcinfo"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[rpcinfo] = "${bindir}/rpcinfo"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rsh/netkit-rsh_0.17.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rsh/netkit-rsh_0.17.bb
index 70fb4cf5fa..5ea553e871 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rsh/netkit-rsh_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rsh/netkit-rsh_0.17.bb
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ CFLAGS += " -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wno-deprecated-declarations"
 LDFLAGS += " -L${STAGING_LIBDIR} -lutil -lcrypt"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
-PACKAGECONFIG_append = " ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG:append = " ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[pam] = " , --without-pam, libpam, libpam"
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_libc-musl = 'null'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = 'null'
 do_configure () {
    ./configure --prefix=${prefix} --exec-prefix=${exec_prefix}
@@ -82,15 +82,15 @@ do_install () {
 PACKAGES = "${PN}-client ${PN}-server ${PN}-doc ${BPN}-dbg"
-FILES_${PN}-client = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-client = "${bindir}/*"
-FILES_${PN}-server = "${sbindir}/* ${sysconfdir}"
+FILES:${PN}-server = "${sbindir}/* ${sysconfdir}"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = "${mandir}"
+FILES:${PN}-doc = "${mandir}"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg = "${prefix}/src/debug \
+FILES:${PN}-dbg = "${prefix}/src/debug \
                   ${sbindir}/.debug ${bindir}/.debug"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "80"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-client = "rcp rexec rlogin rsh"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-client = "rcp rexec rlogin rsh"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-server = "rshd rexecd rlogind"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-server = "rshd rexecd rlogind"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[server] = "${bindir}/rshd"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[rshd] = "${sbindir}/in.rshd"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[rexecd] = "${bindir}/rexecd"
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[rexecd] = "${sbindir}/in.rexecd"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[rlogind] = "${bindir}/rlogind"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[rlogind] = "${sbindir}/in.rlogind"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN}-server += "inetutils-rshd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN}-server += "inetutils-rshd"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-server = "rshd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-server = "rshd"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-server = "xinetd"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-server = "xinetd"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-server += "tcp-wrappers"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-server += "tcp-wrappers"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rusers/netkit-rusers_0.17.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rusers/netkit-rusers_0.17.bb
index eee96d865f..48b32eb7e2 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rusers/netkit-rusers_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rusers/netkit-rusers_0.17.bb
@@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ EOF
 }
 PACKAGES = "${PN}-client ${PN}-server ${PN}-doc ${BPN}-dbg"
-FILES_${PN}-client = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-client = "${bindir}/*"
-FILES_${PN}-server = "${sbindir}/* ${sysconfdir}"
+FILES:${PN}-server = "${sbindir}/* ${sysconfdir}"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = "${mandir}"
+FILES:${PN}-doc = "${mandir}"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg = "${prefix}/src/debug \
+FILES:${PN}-dbg = "${prefix}/src/debug \
            ${bindir}/.debug ${sbindir}/.debug"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-server += "tcp-wrappers xinetd rpcbind"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-server += "tcp-wrappers xinetd rpcbind"
 # http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/186962/
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_libc-musl = 'null'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = 'null'
 PNBLACKLIST[netkit-rusers] ?= "Fails to build rup.c:51:10: fatal error: rstat.h: No such file or directory"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17.bb
index 308582398d..51168f958e 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17.bb
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ do_install () {
    mkdir -p -m 755 ${D}${localstatedir}/spool/rwho
    chown -R rwhod ${D}${localstatedir}/spool/rwho
 }
-pkg_postinst_ontarget_${PN}-server() {
+pkg_postinst_ontarget:${PN}-server() {
    ${sysconfdir}/init.d/rwhod start
 }
-pkg_postrm_${PN}-server() {
+pkg_postrm:${PN}-server() {
    ${sysconfdir}/init.d/rwhod stop
 }
@@ -94,15 +94,15 @@ INITSCRIPT_NAME = "rwhod"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAM = "defaults 85 15"
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}-server"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN}-server = "--system rwhod"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN}-server = "--system rwhod"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN}-server = "--system -g rwhod --home-dir  ${localstatedir}/spool/rwho \
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN}-server = "--system -g rwhod --home-dir  ${localstatedir}/spool/rwho \
        --no-create-home  --shell /bin/false rwhod"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "already-stripped"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "already-stripped"
 PACKAGES = "${PN}-client ${PN}-server ${PN}-doc ${BPN}-dbg"
-FILES_${PN}-client = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-client = "${bindir}/*"
-FILES_${PN}-server = "${sbindir}/* ${localstatedir} ${sysconfdir}/default/* ${sysconfdir}/init.d/*"
+FILES:${PN}-server = "${sbindir}/* ${localstatedir} ${sysconfdir}/default/* ${sysconfdir}/init.d/*"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = "${mandir}"
+FILES:${PN}-doc = "${mandir}"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg = "${prefix}/src/debug \
+FILES:${PN}-dbg = "${prefix}/src/debug \
            ${bindir}/.debug ${sbindir}/.debug"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-telnet/netkit-telnet_0.17.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-telnet/netkit-telnet_0.17.bb
index c05d0fd6c6..56860ea098 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-telnet/netkit-telnet_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-telnet/netkit-telnet_0.17.bb
@@ -55,17 +55,17 @@ do_install () {
 inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "telnet"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "telnet"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[telnet] = "${bindir}/telnet"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[telnet] = "${bindir}/telnet.${PN}"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "telnetd.8"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "telnetd.8"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[telnetd.8] = "${mandir}/man8/telnetd.8"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "d6beabaaf53fe6e382c42ce3faa05a36"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "9c80d5c7838361a328fb6b60016d503def9ce53ad3c589f3b08ff71a2bb88e00"
-FILES_${PN} += "${sbindir}/in.* ${libdir}/* ${sysconfdir}/xinetd.d/*"
+FILES:${PN} += "${sbindir}/in.* ${libdir}/* ${sysconfdir}/xinetd.d/*"
 # http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/186954/
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_libc-musl = 'null'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = 'null'
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "inetutils-telnetd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "inetutils-telnetd"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-tftp/netkit-tftp_0.17.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-tftp/netkit-tftp_0.17.bb
index 28e016400f..8de3e4a34c 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-tftp/netkit-tftp_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-tftp/netkit-tftp_0.17.bb
@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@ do_install () {
 }
 PACKAGES = "${PN}-client ${PN}-server ${PN}-doc ${BPN}-dbg"
-FILES_${PN}-client = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-client = "${bindir}/*"
-FILES_${PN}-server = "${sbindir}/* ${sysconfdir}/xinetd.d/*"
+FILES:${PN}-server = "${sbindir}/* ${sysconfdir}/xinetd.d/*"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = "${mandir}"
+FILES:${PN}-doc = "${mandir}"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg = "${prefix}/src/debug \
+FILES:${PN}-dbg = "${prefix}/src/debug \
    ${bindir}/.debug ${sbindir}/.debug"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-server = "tcp-wrappers xinetd"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-server = "tcp-wrappers xinetd"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-client = "tftp"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-client = "tftp"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[tftp] = "${bindir}/tftp"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/dante/dante_1.4.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/dante/dante_1.4.1.bb
index cfe71dd69d..48f9708560 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/dante/dante_1.4.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/dante/dante_1.4.1.bb
@@ -36,14 +36,14 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[krb5] = ",--without-krb5,krb5"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}
    cp ${S}/example/sock[sd].conf ${D}${sysconfdir}
 }
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-sockd ${PN}-libdsocks "
-FILES_${PN}-libdsocks = "${libdir}/libdsocks.so"
+FILES:${PN}-libdsocks = "${libdir}/libdsocks.so"
-FILES_${PN}-sockd = "${bindir}/sockd ${sysconfdir}/sockd.conf"
+FILES:${PN}-sockd = "${bindir}/sockd ${sysconfdir}/sockd.conf"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-libdsocks = "dev-elf"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-libdsocks = "dev-elf"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/freediameter/freediameter_1.4.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/freediameter/freediameter_1.4.0.bb
index 15ee561969..3ec20d3ab9 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/freediameter/freediameter_1.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/freediameter/freediameter_1.4.0.bb
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ FD_DH_PEM ?= "${BPN}-dh.pem"
 FD_HOSTNAME ?= "${MACHINE}"
 FD_REALM ?= "openembedded.org"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    # install the sample configuration files
    install -d -m 0755 ${D}${sysconfdir}/${fd_pkgname}
    for i in ${S}/doc/*.conf.sample; do
@@ -116,23 +116,23 @@ do_install_ptest() {
    install -m 0644 ${B}/tests/CTestTestfile.cmake ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
 }
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/${fd_pkgname}/.debug/*"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/${fd_pkgname}/.debug/*"
 # include the extensions in main package
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/${fd_pkgname}/*"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/${fd_pkgname}/*"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}  = "glib-2.0 gnutls libidn"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}  = "glib-2.0 gnutls libidn"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "openssl openssl-conf openssl-engines"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "openssl openssl-conf openssl-engines"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "kernel-module-tipc kernel-module-sctp" 
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "kernel-module-tipc kernel-module-sctp" 
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "kernel-module-udp-tunnel kernel-module-ipip"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "kernel-module-udp-tunnel kernel-module-ipip"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = "cmake"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = "cmake"
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN} = "${BPN}"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN} = "${BPN}"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS$_${PN} = "start 30 . stop 70 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ."
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "freediameter.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "freediameter.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/freediameter.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/freediameter.conf"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/mdns/mdns_1310.40.42.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/mdns/mdns_1310.40.42.bb
index 60bc26bf17..c9bfef2d14 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/mdns/mdns_1310.40.42.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/mdns/mdns_1310.40.42.bb
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/"
 LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 & BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../LICENSE;md5=31c50371921e0fb731003bbc665f29bf"
-COMPATIBLE_HOST_libc-musl = 'null'
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = 'null'
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "libdns_sd.so"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "libdns_sd.so"
 SRC_URI = "https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/mDNSResponder/mDNSResponder-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://mdns.service \
@@ -83,13 +83,13 @@ do_install () {
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/mdns.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/
 }
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
    sed -e '/^hosts:/s/\s*\<mdns\>//' \
        -e 's/\(^hosts:.*\)\(\<files\>\)\(.*\)\(\<dns\>\)\(.*\)/\1\2 mdns\3\4\5/' \
        -i $D/etc/nsswitch.conf
 }
-pkg_prerm_${PN} () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN} () {
    sed -e '/^hosts:/s/\s*\<mdns\>//' \
        -e '/^hosts:/s/\s*mdns//' \
        -i $D/etc/nsswitch.conf
@@ -97,18 +97,18 @@ pkg_prerm_${PN} () {
 inherit systemd
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "mdns.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "mdns.service"
-FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/mdns.service"
+FILES:${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/mdns.service"
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/libdns_sd.so.1 \
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/libdns_sd.so.1 \
                ${bindir}/dns-sd \
                ${libdir}/libnss_mdns-0.2.so \
                ${sysconfdir}/nss_mdns.conf"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/libdns_sd.so \
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/libdns_sd.so \
                    ${includedir}/dns_sd.h "
-FILES_${PN}-man += "${mandir}/man8/mdnsd.8 \
+FILES:${PN}-man += "${mandir}/man8/mdnsd.8 \
                    ${mandir}/man5/nss_mdns.conf.5 \
                    ${mandir}/man8/libnss_mdns.8"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/net-snmp/net-snmp_5.9.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/net-snmp/net-snmp_5.9.1.bb
index aa497c8947..5fa6170940 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/net-snmp/net-snmp_5.9.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/net-snmp/net-snmp_5.9.1.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ LICENSE = "BSD & MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=9d100a395a38584f2ec18a8275261687"
 DEPENDS = "openssl"
-DEPENDS_append_class-target = " pciutils"
+DEPENDS:append:class-target = " pciutils"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/net-snmp/net-snmp-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://init \
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = " \
 "
 MIB_MODULES = ""
-MIB_MODULES_append = " ${@bb.utils.filter('PACKAGECONFIG', 'smux', d)}"
+MIB_MODULES:append = " ${@bb.utils.filter('PACKAGECONFIG', 'smux', d)}"
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS = " \
    ac_cv_header_valgrind_valgrind_h=no \
@@ -74,15 +74,15 @@ CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS = " \
    NETSNMP_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS= \
 "
 PERLPROG = "${bindir}/env perl"
-PERLPROG_class-native = "${bindir_native}/env perl"
+PERLPROG:class-native = "${bindir_native}/env perl"
-PERLPROG_append = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'perl', ' -I${WORKDIR}', '', d)}"
+PERLPROG:append = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'perl', ' -I${WORKDIR}', '', d)}"
 export PERLPROG
 HAS_PERL = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'perl', '1', '0', d)}"
 PTEST_BUILD_HOST_FILES += "net-snmp-config gen-variables"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    sed -i -e "s|I/usr/include|I${STAGING_INCDIR}|g" \
        "${S}"/configure \
        "${S}"/configure.d/config_os_libs2
@@ -103,14 +103,14 @@ do_configure_prepend() {
 }
-do_configure_append() {
+do_configure:append() {
    sed -e "s@^NSC_INCLUDEDIR=.*@NSC_INCLUDEDIR=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}\$\{includedir\}@g" \
        -e "s@^NSC_LIBDIR=-L.*@NSC_LIBDIR=-L${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}\$\{libdir\}@g" \
        -e "s@^NSC_LDFLAGS=\"-L.* @NSC_LDFLAGS=\"-L${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}\$\{libdir\} @g" \
        -i ${B}/net-snmp-config
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/snmp
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/init ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/snmpd
@@ -202,83 +202,83 @@ PACKAGES += "${PN}-libs ${PN}-mibs ${PN}-server ${PN}-client \
 # perl module
 PACKAGES += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'perl', '${PN}-perl-modules', '', d)}"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-server = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-server = "1"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-libs = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-libs = "1"
-FILES_${PN}-perl-modules = "${libdir}/perl?/*"
+FILES:${PN}-perl-modules = "${libdir}/perl?/*"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-perl-modules = "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-perl-modules = "perl"
-FILES_${PN}-libs = ""
+FILES:${PN}-libs = ""
-FILES_${PN}-mibs = "${datadir}/snmp/mibs"
+FILES:${PN}-mibs = "${datadir}/snmp/mibs"
-FILES_${PN}-server-snmpd = "${sbindir}/snmpd \
+FILES:${PN}-server-snmpd = "${sbindir}/snmpd \
                            ${sysconfdir}/snmp/snmpd.conf \
                            ${sysconfdir}/init.d \
                            ${systemd_unitdir}/system/snmpd.service \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-server-snmptrapd = "${sbindir}/snmptrapd \
+FILES:${PN}-server-snmptrapd = "${sbindir}/snmptrapd \
                                ${sysconfdir}/snmp/snmptrapd.conf \
                                ${systemd_unitdir}/system/snmptrapd.service \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-lib-netsnmp = "${libdir}/libnetsnmp${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:${PN}-lib-netsnmp = "${libdir}/libnetsnmp${SOLIBS}"
-FILES_${PN}-lib-agent = "${libdir}/libnetsnmpagent${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:${PN}-lib-agent = "${libdir}/libnetsnmpagent${SOLIBS}"
-FILES_${PN}-lib-helpers = "${libdir}/libnetsnmphelpers${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:${PN}-lib-helpers = "${libdir}/libnetsnmphelpers${SOLIBS}"
-FILES_${PN}-lib-mibs = "${libdir}/libnetsnmpmibs${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:${PN}-lib-mibs = "${libdir}/libnetsnmpmibs${SOLIBS}"
-FILES_${PN}-lib-trapd = "${libdir}/libnetsnmptrapd${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:${PN}-lib-trapd = "${libdir}/libnetsnmptrapd${SOLIBS}"
-FILES_${PN} = ""
+FILES:${PN} = ""
-FILES_${PN}-client = "${bindir}/* ${datadir}/snmp/"
+FILES:${PN}-client = "${bindir}/* ${datadir}/snmp/"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/.debug/ ${sbindir}/.debug/ ${bindir}/.debug/"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/.debug/ ${sbindir}/.debug/ ${bindir}/.debug/"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${bindir}/mib2c \
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${bindir}/mib2c \
                    ${bindir}/mib2c-update \
                    ${bindir}/net-snmp-config \
                    ${bindir}/net-snmp-create-v3-user \
 "
-CONFFILES_${PN}-server-snmpd = "${sysconfdir}/snmp/snmpd.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-server-snmpd = "${sysconfdir}/snmp/snmpd.conf"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-server-snmptrapd = "${sysconfdir}/snmp/snmptrapd.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-server-snmptrapd = "${sysconfdir}/snmp/snmptrapd.conf"
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}-server-snmpd"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}-server-snmpd = "snmpd"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}-server-snmpd = "snmpd"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN}-server-snmpd = "start 90 2 3 4 5 . stop 60 0 1 6 ."
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN}-server-snmpd = "start 90 2 3 4 5 . stop 60 0 1 6 ."
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}-server-snmpd \
                    ${PN}-server-snmptrapd"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-server-snmpd = "snmpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-server-snmpd = "snmpd.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-server-snmptrapd =  "snmptrapd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-server-snmptrapd =  "snmptrapd.service"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'perl', 'net-snmp-perl-modules', '', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'perl', 'net-snmp-perl-modules', '', d)}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "net-snmp-client"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "net-snmp-client"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-server-snmpd += "net-snmp-mibs"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-server-snmpd += "net-snmp-mibs"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-server-snmptrapd += "net-snmp-server-snmpd ${PN}-lib-trapd"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-server-snmptrapd += "net-snmp-server-snmpd ${PN}-lib-trapd"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-server += "net-snmp-server-snmpd net-snmp-server-snmptrapd"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-server += "net-snmp-server-snmpd net-snmp-server-snmptrapd"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-client += "net-snmp-mibs net-snmp-libs"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-client += "net-snmp-mibs net-snmp-libs"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-libs += "libpci \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-libs += "libpci \
                        ${PN}-lib-netsnmp \
                        ${PN}-lib-agent \
                        ${PN}-lib-helpers \
                        ${PN}-lib-mibs \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "perl \
                         perl-module-test \
                         perl-module-file-basename \
                         perl-module-getopt-long \
                         perl-module-file-temp \
                         perl-module-data-dumper \
 "
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = "net-snmp-client (= ${EXTENDPKGV}) net-snmp-server (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = "net-snmp-client (= ${EXTENDPKGV}) net-snmp-server (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-dbg = "net-snmp-client (= ${EXTENDPKGV}) net-snmp-server (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-dbg = "net-snmp-client (= ${EXTENDPKGV}) net-snmp-server (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-server-snmpd += "${PN}-server-snmpd-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-server-snmpd += "${PN}-server-snmpd-systemd"
-RREPLACES_${PN}-server-snmpd += "${PN}-server-snmpd-systemd"
+RREPLACES:${PN}-server-snmpd += "${PN}-server-snmpd-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN}-server-snmpd += "${PN}-server-snmpd-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN}-server-snmpd += "${PN}-server-snmpd-systemd"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-server-snmptrapd += "${PN}-server-snmptrapd-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-server-snmptrapd += "${PN}-server-snmptrapd-systemd"
-RREPLACES_${PN}-server-snmptrapd += "${PN}-server-snmptrapd-systemd"
+RREPLACES:${PN}-server-snmptrapd += "${PN}-server-snmptrapd-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN}-server-snmptrapd += "${PN}-server-snmptrapd-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN}-server-snmptrapd += "${PN}-server-snmptrapd-systemd"
 LEAD_SONAME = "libnetsnmp.so"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openflow/openflow.inc b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openflow/openflow.inc
index cccbfa19a6..1640911fd8 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openflow/openflow.inc
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openflow/openflow.inc
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 inherit autotools-brokensep pkgconfig
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    ./boot.sh
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    # Remove /var/run as it is created on startup
    rm -rf ${D}${localstatedir}/run
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openl2tp/openl2tp_1.8.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openl2tp/openl2tp_1.8.bb
index 9c0c28e197..6ce15a282b 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openl2tp/openl2tp_1.8.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openl2tp/openl2tp_1.8.bb
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1c97704d4b963a87fbc0e741668d4530933991515ae9ab0dffd11b5444
 inherit autotools-brokensep pkgconfig systemd ptest
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "openl2tpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "openl2tpd.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
 DEPENDS += "libtirpc"
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ LDFLAGS += "-ltirpc"
 PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = 'CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wno-unused-but-set-variable" CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" OPT_CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"'
-do_compile_prepend() {
+do_compile:prepend() {
    sed -i -e "s:SYS_LIBDIR=.*:SYS_LIBDIR=${libdir}:g" \
        -e 's:$(CROSS_COMPILE)as:${AS}:g' \
        -e 's:$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld:${LD}:g' \
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ do_compile_prepend() {
        ${S}/Makefile
 }
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/default
    install -m 0755 ${S}/etc/rc.d/init.d/openl2tpd ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/openl2tpd
@@ -91,4 +91,4 @@ do_install_ptest () {
    done
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "ppp ppp-l2tp bash"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "ppp ppp-l2tp bash"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openlldp/openlldp_1.0.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openlldp/openlldp_1.0.1.bb
index ec3e557ad9..abfa713dc8 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openlldp/openlldp_1.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/openlldp/openlldp_1.0.1.bb
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ TARGET_CFLAGS += "-Wno-error"
 # Enable install of systemd conf files.
 EXTRA_OECONF += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', '--with-systemdsystemunitdir=${systemd_system_unitdir}', '', d)}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "lldpad.service lldpad.socket"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "lldpad.service lldpad.socket"
 # To enable service at boot set to enable in local.conf.
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE ?= "disable"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "iproute2-tc"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "iproute2-tc"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/pptp-linux/pptp-linux_1.10.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/pptp-linux/pptp-linux_1.10.0.bb
index 53a79af76d..71046ce24c 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/pptp-linux/pptp-linux_1.10.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/pptp-linux/pptp-linux_1.10.0.bb
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ do_install() {
    install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/options.pptp ${D}${sysconfdir}/ppp
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "ppp"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "ppp"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/quagga/quagga.inc b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/quagga/quagga.inc
index 3b7a425bba..b3574a7ff6 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/quagga/quagga.inc
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/quagga/quagga.inc
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ DEPENDS += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'snmp', 'net-snmp', '', d)}"
 SNMP_CONF="${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'snmp', '--enable-snmp', '', d)}"
 # the "ip" command from busybox is not sufficient (flush by protocol flushes all routes)
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "iproute2"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "iproute2"
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/releases/download/quagga-${PV}/quagga-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://quagga.init \
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ inherit autotools update-rc.d useradd systemd pkgconfig multilib_header update-a
 CFLAGS += "-fcommon"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-bgpd ${PN}-isisd ${PN}-ospf6d ${PN}-ospfd ${PN}-ripd ${PN}-ripngd"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-bgpd = "bgpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-bgpd = "bgpd.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-isisd = "isisd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-isisd = "isisd.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-ospf6d = "ospf6d.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-ospf6d = "ospf6d.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-ospfd = "ospfd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-ospfd = "ospfd.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-ripd = "ripd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-ripd = "ripd.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-ripngd = "ripngd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-ripngd = "ripngd.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "zebra.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "zebra.service"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--sysconfdir=${sysconfdir}/quagga \
                --localstatedir=${localstatedir}/run/quagga \
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ do_install () {
        -i ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/*.service
 }
-DEPENDS_append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'systemd-systemctl-native', '', d)}"
+DEPENDS:append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'systemd-systemctl-native', '', d)}"
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd sysvinit', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
        if [ -n "$D" ]; then
            OPTS="--root=$D"
@@ -159,22 +159,22 @@ PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN = "${PN}-ospfd ${PN}-ospf6d ${PN}-bgpd \
                     ${PN}-ripd ${PN}-ripngd ${PN}-isisd \
                     ${PN}-ospfclient ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', '${PN}-watchquagga', '', d)}"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-bgpd ${PN}-isisd ${PN}-ospf6d ${PN}-ospfd ${PN}-ripd ${PN}-ripngd"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${PN}-bgpd ${PN}-isisd ${PN}-ospf6d ${PN}-ospfd ${PN}-ripd ${PN}-ripngd"
-FILES_${PN}-ospfd       = "${sbindir}/ospfd ${libdir}/libospf.so.*"
+FILES:${PN}-ospfd       = "${sbindir}/ospfd ${libdir}/libospf.so.*"
-FILES_${PN}-ospf6d      = "${sbindir}/ospf6d"
+FILES:${PN}-ospf6d      = "${sbindir}/ospf6d"
-FILES_${PN}-bgpd        = "${sbindir}/bgpd"
+FILES:${PN}-bgpd        = "${sbindir}/bgpd"
-FILES_${PN}-ripd        = "${sbindir}/ripd"
+FILES:${PN}-ripd        = "${sbindir}/ripd"
-FILES_${PN}-ripngd      = "${sbindir}/ripngd"
+FILES:${PN}-ripngd      = "${sbindir}/ripngd"
-FILES_${PN}-isisd       = "${sbindir}/isisd"
+FILES:${PN}-isisd       = "${sbindir}/isisd"
-FILES_${PN}-ospfclient  = "${sbindir}/ospfclient ${libdir}/libospfapiclient.so.*"
+FILES:${PN}-ospfclient  = "${sbindir}/ospfclient ${libdir}/libospfapiclient.so.*"
-FILES_${PN}-watchquagga = "${sbindir}/watchquagga ${sysconfdir}/default/watchquagga \
+FILES:${PN}-watchquagga = "${sbindir}/watchquagga ${sysconfdir}/default/watchquagga \
                           ${sysconfdir}/init.d/watchquagga"
-FILES_${PN} += "${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d/*.conf"
+FILES:${PN} += "${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d/*.conf"
 # Indicate that the default files are configuration files
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/default/quagga \
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/default/quagga \
                   ${sysconfdir}/quagga/bgpd.conf \
                   ${sysconfdir}/quagga/vtysh.conf \
                   ${sysconfdir}/quagga/isisd.conf \
@@ -184,60 +184,60 @@ CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/default/quagga \
                   ${sysconfdir}/quagga/ripd.conf \
                   ${sysconfdir}/quagga/ospf6d.conf \
                  "
-CONFFILES_${PN}-watchquagga = "${sysconfdir}/default/watchquagga"
+CONFFILES:${PN}-watchquagga = "${sysconfdir}/default/watchquagga"
 # Stop the names being rewritten due to the internal shared libraries
-DEBIAN_NOAUTONAME_${PN}-ospfd = "1"
+DEBIAN_NOAUTONAME:${PN}-ospfd = "1"
-DEBIAN_NOAUTONAME_${PN}-ospfclient = "1"
+DEBIAN_NOAUTONAME:${PN}-ospfclient = "1"
 # Main init script starts all deamons
 # Seperate init script for watchquagga
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES                     = "${PN} ${PN}-watchquagga"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}                   = "quagga"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}                   = "quagga"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN}                 = "defaults 15 85"
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN}                 = "defaults 15 85"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}-watchquagga       = "watchquagga"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}-watchquagga       = "watchquagga"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN}-watchquagga     = "defaults 90 10"
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN}-watchquagga     = "defaults 90 10"
 # Add quagga's user and group
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system quagga ; --system quaggavty"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system quagga ; --system quaggavty"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system --home ${localstatedir}/run/quagga/ -M -g quagga -G quaggavty --shell /bin/false quagga"
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system --home ${localstatedir}/run/quagga/ -M -g quagga -G quaggavty --shell /bin/false quagga"
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
    if [ -z "$D" ] && [ -e /etc/init.d/populate-volatile.sh ] ; then
        ${sysconfdir}/init.d/populate-volatile.sh update
    fi
 }
 # Stop apps before uninstall
-pkg_prerm_${PN} () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN} () {
    ${sysconfdir}/init.d/quagga stop
 }
-pkg_prerm_${PN}-ospfd () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN}-ospfd () {
    ${sysconfdir}/init.d/quagga stop ospfd
 }
-pkg_prerm_${PN}-ospf6d () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN}-ospf6d () {
    ${sysconfdir}/init.d/quagga stop ospf6d
 }
-pkg_prerm_${PN}-bgpd () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN}-bgpd () {
    ${sysconfdir}/init.d/quagga stop bgpd
 }
-pkg_prerm_${PN}-ripd () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN}-ripd () {
    ${sysconfdir}/init.d/quagga stop ripd
 }
-pkg_prerm_${PN}-ripngd () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN}-ripngd () {
    ${sysconfdir}/init.d/quagga stop ripngd
 }
-pkg_prerm_${PN}-isisd () {
+pkg_prerm:${PN}-isisd () {
    ${sysconfdir}/init.d/quagga stop isisd
 }
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "pimd"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "pimd"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[pimd] = "${sbindir}/pimd"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient-ng_0.5.6.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient-ng_0.5.6.bb
index ea3775452b..4696c3baeb 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient-ng_0.5.6.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient-ng_0.5.6.bb
@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ DEPENDS += "virtual/crypt"
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-static"
-do_configure_prepend () {
+do_configure:prepend () {
    export CONFIG_SITE=./config-site.${P}
 }
-do_compile_prepend() {
+do_compile:prepend() {
    for m in `find . -name "Makefile"` ; do
        sed -i -e 's:^program_transform_name =.*:program_transform_name =:g' ${m}
    done
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.13.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.13.bb
index 492ade5ae5..344aa33dec 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.13.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.13.bb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8cd6bc71ba46bd5f6eb4daf60220ccdcd991a8525111dee466501b1b97
 inherit autotools-brokensep update-rc.d systemd
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/pppoe-server.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
    sed -i -e 's#@SYSCONFDIR@#${sysconfdir}#g' ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/pppoe-server.service
@@ -48,29 +48,29 @@ do_install() {
 }
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}-server"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-server = "pppoe-server.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-server = "pppoe-server.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
 # Insert server package before main package
 PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg ${PN}-server ${PN}-relay ${PN}-sniff ${PN} ${PN}-doc"
-FILES_${PN}-server = "${sysconfdir}/default/pppoe-server \
+FILES:${PN}-server = "${sysconfdir}/default/pppoe-server \
                      ${sysconfdir}/init.d/pppoe-server \
                      ${sbindir}/pppoe-server \
                      ${sysconfdir}/ppp/pppoe-server-options"
-FILES_${PN}-relay = "${sbindir}/pppoe-relay"
+FILES:${PN}-relay = "${sbindir}/pppoe-relay"
-FILES_${PN}-sniff = "${sbindir}/pppoe-sniff"
+FILES:${PN}-sniff = "${sbindir}/pppoe-sniff"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/ppp/pppoe.conf \
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/ppp/pppoe.conf \
                   ${sysconfdir}/ppp/firewall-standalone \
                   ${sysconfdir}/ppp/firewall-masq"
-CONFFILES_${PN}-server = "${sysconfdir}/ppp/pppoe-server-options \
+CONFFILES:${PN}-server = "${sysconfdir}/ppp/pppoe-server-options \
                          ${sysconfdir}/default/pppoe-server"
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES            = "${PN}-server"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN}-server   = "pppoe-server"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN}-server   = "pppoe-server"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN}-server = "defaults 92 8"
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN}-server = "defaults 92 8"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "ppp"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "ppp"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-server = "${PN}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-server = "${PN}"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "ppp-oe"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "ppp-oe"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/tsocks/tsocks_1.8beta5.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/tsocks/tsocks_1.8beta5.bb
index 725ba189c6..09699f3329 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/tsocks/tsocks_1.8beta5.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/tsocks/tsocks_1.8beta5.bb
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "849d7ef5af80d03e76cc05ed9fb8fa2bcc2b724b51ebfd1b6be11c7863
 inherit autotools-brokensep
-LIBS_append_libc-musl = " -lssp_nonshared"
+LIBS:append:libc-musl = " -lssp_nonshared"
-LIBS_append_libc-glibc = " -lc_nonshared"
+LIBS:append:libc-glibc = " -lc_nonshared"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/tsocks-1.8"
-FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/* ${bindir}/tsocks"
+FILES:${PN} = "${libdir}/* ${bindir}/tsocks"
-FILES_${PN}-dev = ""
+FILES:${PN}-dev = ""
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "dev-so"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "SHCC='${CC} -fPIC ${LDFLAGS}' LIBS='${LIBS}'"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/xl2tpd/xl2tpd_1.3.14.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/xl2tpd/xl2tpd_1.3.14.bb
index b02e183db7..52f5ef275f 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/xl2tpd/xl2tpd_1.3.14.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/xl2tpd/xl2tpd_1.3.14.bb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ do_install () {
    install -m 0644 debian/xl2tpd.default ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/xl2tpd
 }
-CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/xl2tpd.conf ${sysconfdir}/default/xl2tpd"
+CONFFILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/xl2tpd.conf ${sysconfdir}/default/xl2tpd"
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN} = "xl2tpd"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN} = "xl2tpd"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/aoetools/aoetools_36.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/aoetools/aoetools_36.bb
index 60f3dc9b25..676d2e567f 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/aoetools/aoetools_36.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/aoetools/aoetools_36.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/${BPN}"
 SECTION = "admin"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "kernel-module-aoe"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "kernel-module-aoe"
 SRC_URI = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/${BPN}/files/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://aoe-stat-no-bashism.patch \
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/arptables/arptables_git.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/arptables/arptables_git.bb
index 5afec7663a..33e4e13acb 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/arptables/arptables_git.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/arptables/arptables_git.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SRC_URI[arptables.md5sum] = "1d4ab05761f063b0751645d8f2b8f8e5"
 SRC_URI[arptables.sha256sum] = "e529fd465c67d69ad335299a043516e6b38cdcd337a5ed21718413e96073f928"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "arptables.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "arptables.service"
 inherit systemd
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ do_install() {
    fi
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl"
 # the install target is not multi-job safe, but it doesn't do much
 # so we just install serially
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/bridge-utils/bridge-utils_1.7.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/bridge-utils/bridge-utils_1.7.bb
index cf7185864d..b8975dec0b 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/bridge-utils/bridge-utils_1.7.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/bridge-utils/bridge-utils_1.7.bb
@@ -20,16 +20,16 @@ DEPENDS = "sysfsutils"
 inherit autotools-brokensep update-alternatives
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "brctl"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "brctl"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[brctl] = "100"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[brctl] = "${sbindir}/brctl"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-linux-headers=${STAGING_INCDIR}"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    install -d ${D}/${datadir}/bridge-utils
    install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/network/if-pre-up.d
    install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/network/if-post-down.d
 }
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "kernel-module-bridge"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "kernel-module-bridge"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/celt051/celt051_git.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/celt051/celt051_git.bb
index c3e4cbbe6d..62682cfce3 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/celt051/celt051_git.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/celt051/celt051_git.bb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 inherit pkgconfig autotools-brokensep
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-native = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-native = ""
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[ogg] = "--enable-tools,--disable-tools,libogg,"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/chrony/chrony_4.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/chrony/chrony_4.1.bb
index 0262a6e8d9..6a450c3e88 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/chrony/chrony_4.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/chrony/chrony_4.1.bb
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://download.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony-${PV}.tar.gz \
    file://arm_eabi.patch \
 "
-SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = " \
+SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = " \
    file://0001-Fix-compilation-with-musl.patch \
 "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ed76f2d3f9347ac6221a91ad4bd553dd0565ac188cd7490d0801d08f7171164c"
@@ -119,20 +119,20 @@ do_install() {
    sed -i 's!^EnvironmentFile=.*!EnvironmentFile=-${sysconfdir}/default/chronyd!' ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/chronyd.service
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "${sbindir}/chronyd ${sysconfdir} ${localstatedir}/lib/chrony ${localstatedir}"
+FILES:${PN} = "${sbindir}/chronyd ${sysconfdir} ${localstatedir}/lib/chrony ${localstatedir}"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/chrony.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/chrony.conf"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "chronyd"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "chronyd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "chronyd.service"
 # It's probably a bad idea to run chrony and another time daemon on
 # the same system.  systemd includes the SNTP client 'timesyncd', which
 # will be disabled by chronyd.service, however it will remain on the rootfs
-# wasting 150 kB unless you put 'PACKAGECONFIG_remove_pn-systemd = "timesyncd"'
+# wasting 150 kB unless you put 'PACKAGECONFIG:remove:pn-systemd = "timesyncd"'
 # in a conf file or bbappend somewhere.
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "ntp ntimed"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "ntp ntimed"
 # Separate the client program into its own package
 PACKAGES =+ "chronyc"
-FILES_chronyc = "${bindir}/chronyc"
+FILES:chronyc = "${bindir}/chronyc"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/cifs/cifs-utils_6.13.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/cifs/cifs-utils_6.13.bb
index bf8b18043a..54aa3ce19c 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/cifs/cifs-utils_6.13.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/cifs/cifs-utils_6.13.bb
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ DEPENDS += "libtalloc"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[cap] = "--with-libcap,--without-libcap,libcap"
-# when enabled, it creates ${bindir}/cifscreds and --ignore-fail-on-non-empty in do_install_append is needed
+# when enabled, it creates ${bindir}/cifscreds and --ignore-fail-on-non-empty in do_install:append is needed
 PACKAGECONFIG[cifscreds] = "--enable-cifscreds,--disable-cifscreds,keyutils"
-# when enabled, it creates ${sbindir}/cifs.upcall and --ignore-fail-on-non-empty in do_install_append is needed
+# when enabled, it creates ${sbindir}/cifs.upcall and --ignore-fail-on-non-empty in do_install:append is needed
 PACKAGECONFIG[cifsupcall] = "--enable-cifsupcall,--disable-cifsupcall,krb5 libtalloc keyutils"
 PACKAGECONFIG[cifsidmap] = "--enable-cifsidmap,--disable-cifsidmap,keyutils samba"
 PACKAGECONFIG[cifsacl] = "--enable-cifsacl,--disable-cifsacl,samba"
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[pam] = "--enable-pam --with-pamdir=${base_libdir}/security,--disab
 inherit autotools pkgconfig
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    # want installed to /usr/sbin rather than /sbin to be DISTRO_FEATURES usrmerge compliant
    # must override ROOTSBINDIR (default '/sbin'),
    # setting --exec-prefix or --prefix in EXTRA_OECONF does not work
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ do_configure_prepend() {
    fi
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','usrmerge','false','true',d)}; then
        # Remove empty /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories since the mount helper
        # is installed to /sbin
@@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ do_install_append() {
    fi
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${base_libdir}/security"
+FILES:${PN} += "${base_libdir}/security"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${base_libdir}/security/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${base_libdir}/security/.debug"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "kernel-module-cifs"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "kernel-module-cifs"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-docs_2.40.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-docs_2.40.0.bb
index 4ecaabd7ed..62daf3279d 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-docs_2.40.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-docs_2.40.0.bb
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ do_install() {
        cp -R --no-dereference --preserve=mode,links -v ${S}/* ${D}${datadir}/doc/cim-schema-${PV}-docs
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "${datadir}/doc/*"
+FILES:${PN} = "${datadir}/doc/*"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = ""
+FILES:${PN}-doc = ""
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-exper_2.50.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-exper_2.50.0.bb
index 90ea882b73..7d51bc1c91 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-exper_2.50.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-exper_2.50.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require cim-schema.inc
 LICENSE = "DMTF"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "cim-schema-final"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "cim-schema-final"
 SRC_URI = "http://dmtf.org/sites/default/files/cim/cim_schema_v2500/cim_schema_${PV}Experimental-MOFs.zip;subdir=${BPN}-${PV} \
    file://LICENSE \
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ do_install() {
    ln -s cim_schema_${PV}.mof ${D}${datadir}/mof/cim-current/CIM_Schema.mof
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "${datadir}/mof/* ${datadir}/doc/*"
+FILES:${PN} = "${datadir}/mof/* ${datadir}/doc/*"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = ""
+FILES:${PN}-doc = ""
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-final_2.40.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-final_2.40.0.bb
index 67d1db222c..32bd8acbb9 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-final_2.40.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/cim-schema/cim-schema-final_2.40.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require cim-schema.inc
 LICENSE = "DMTF"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "cim-schema-exper"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} = "cim-schema-exper"
 SRC_URI = "http://dmtf.org/sites/default/files/cim/cim_schema_v2400/cim_schema_${PV}Final-MOFs.zip;subdir=${BP} \
    file://LICENSE \
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ do_install() {
    ln -s cim_schema_${PV}.mof ${D}${datadir}/mof/cim-current/CIM_Schema.mof
 }
-FILES_${PN} = "${datadir}/mof/* ${datadir}/doc/*"
+FILES:${PN} = "${datadir}/mof/* ${datadir}/doc/*"
-FILES_${PN}-doc = ""
+FILES:${PN}-doc = ""
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/curlpp/curlpp_0.8.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/curlpp/curlpp_0.8.1.bb
index 799cf8611c..6ce52d7179 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/curlpp/curlpp_0.8.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/curlpp/curlpp_0.8.1.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://doc/LICENSE;md5=fd0c9adf285a69aa3b4faf34384e1029"
 DEPENDS = "curl"
-DEPENDS_class-native = "curl-native"
+DEPENDS:class-native = "curl-native"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/jpbarrette/curlpp.git"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc
index 33678e2345..cd51c07dc1 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE = "\
 SRC_URI += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'resolvconf', 'file://dnsmasq.resolvconf file://99_dnsmasq file://dnsmasq-resolvconf-helper', '', d)}"
-do_compile_append() {
+do_compile:append() {
    # build dhcp_release
    cd ${S}/contrib/lease-tools
    oe_runmake
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ do_install () {
    fi
 }
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/dnsmasq.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/dnsmasq.conf"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RREPLACES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RREPLACES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "dnsmasq.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "dnsmasq.service"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dovecot/dovecot_2.3.14.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dovecot/dovecot_2.3.14.bb
index 26b4f5ee8e..464f622502 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dovecot/dovecot_2.3.14.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dovecot/dovecot_2.3.14.bb
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = " --with-ioloop=epoll \
 LTO = ""
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "dovecot.service dovecot.socket"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "dovecot.service dovecot.socket"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    install -d 755 ${D}/etc/dovecot
    touch 644 ${D}/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/dovecot.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
@@ -62,16 +62,16 @@ do_install_append () {
 }
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "-r -d ${libexecdir} -M -s ${base_sbindir}/nologin -g dovecot dovecot; \
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "-r -d ${libexecdir} -M -s ${base_sbindir}/nologin -g dovecot dovecot; \
                      -r -d ${libexecdir} -M -s ${base_sbindir}/nologin -g dovenull dovenull"
-GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} = "-f -r dovecot;-f -r dovenull"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:${PN} = "-f -r dovecot;-f -r dovenull"
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/dovecot/*plugin.so \
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/dovecot/*plugin.so \
                ${libdir}/dovecot/libfs_compress.so \
                ${libdir}/dovecot/libssl_iostream_openssl.so"
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/dovecot/*/*.a"
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/dovecot/*/*.a"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/dovecot/libdovecot*.so"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/dovecot/libdovecot*.so"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/dovecot/*/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/dovecot/*/.debug"
 # CVE-2016-4983 affects only postinstall script on specific distribution
 CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2016-4983"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd-utils_9.13.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd-utils_9.13.1.bb
index 5b0979f961..ceb40185f8 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd-utils_9.13.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/drbd/drbd-utils_9.13.1.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd-utils/releases"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "drbd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "drbd.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
 DEPENDS = "flex-native"
@@ -43,20 +43,20 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = " \
 # If we have inherited reproducible_build, we want to use it.
 export WANT_DRBD_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD = "yes"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    # don't install empty /var/lock and /var/run to avoid conflict with base-files
    rm -rf ${D}${localstatedir}/lock
    rm -rf ${D}${localstatedir}/run
 }
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "bash perl-module-getopt-long perl-module-exporter perl-module-constant perl-module-overloading perl-module-exporter-heavy"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "bash perl-module-getopt-long perl-module-exporter perl-module-constant perl-module-overloading perl-module-exporter-heavy"
 # The drbd items are explicitly put under /lib when installed.
 #
-FILES_${PN} += "/run"
+FILES:${PN} += "/run"
-FILES_${PN} += "${nonarch_base_libdir}/drbd \
+FILES:${PN} += "${nonarch_base_libdir}/drbd \
                ${nonarch_libdir}/drbd \
                ${nonarch_libdir}/tmpfiles.d"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${nonarch_base_libdir}/drbd/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${nonarch_base_libdir}/drbd/.debug"
 CLEANBROKEN = "1"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/esmtp/esmtp_1.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/esmtp/esmtp_1.2.bb
index 972d5aa737..110399a360 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/esmtp/esmtp_1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/esmtp/esmtp_1.2.bb
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-libesmtp=${STAGING_EXECPREFIXDIR}"
 inherit autotools update-alternatives
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "sendmail mailq newaliases"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "sendmail mailq newaliases"
 # /usr/lib/sendmial is required by LSB core test
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}_linuxstdbase = "sendmail mailq newaliases usr-lib-sendmail"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}:linuxstdbase = "sendmail mailq newaliases usr-lib-sendmail"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[mailq] = "${bindir}/mailq"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[newaliases] = "${bindir}/newaliases"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sendmail] = "${sbindir}/sendmail"
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[usr-lib-sendmail] = "${bindir}/esmtp"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "10"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc += "mailq.1 newaliases.1 sendmail.1"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc += "mailq.1 newaliases.1 sendmail.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[mailq.1] = "${mandir}/man1/mailq.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[newaliases.1] = "${mandir}/man1/newaliases.1"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sendmail.1] = "${mandir}/man1/sendmail.1"
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sendmail.1] = "${mandir}/man1/sendmail.1"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "79a9c1f9023d53f35bb82bf446150a72"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a0d26931bf731f97514da266d079d8bc7d73c65b3499ed080576ab606b21c0ce"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    # only one file /usr/lib/sendmail in ${D}${libdir}
    rm -rf ${D}${libdir}
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ettercap/ettercap_0.8.3.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ettercap/ettercap_0.8.3.1.bb
index c641c265e2..9ebed2a14e 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ettercap/ettercap_0.8.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ettercap/ettercap_0.8.3.1.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ DEPENDS += "ethtool \
            flex-native \
            "
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "bash ethtool libgcc"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "bash ethtool libgcc"
 SRC_URI = "gitsm://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap"
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
 # configuration file installed by the package.
 # It ensures that all characters are properly decoded and avoids
 # any fatal errors while running in text mode (-T).
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        sed -i 's@utf8_encoding.*@utf8_encoding = "UTF-8"@g' \
                ${D}/etc/ettercap/etter.conf
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.4.19.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.4.19.bb
index aead5e9f0f..8fc9b5d10b 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.4.19.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.4.19.bb
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ inherit autotools gettext python3-dir python3native
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-ssl=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix}"
 PACKAGES =+ "fetchmail-python"
-FILES_fetchmail-python = "${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/*"
+FILES:fetchmail-python = "${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/*"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/fwknop/fwknop_2.6.10.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/fwknop/fwknop_2.6.10.bb
index c3681f9259..2dfd8d5d4b 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/fwknop/fwknop_2.6.10.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/fwknop/fwknop_2.6.10.bb
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ do_configure () {
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-client ${PN}-daemon"
-FILES_${PN}-client = "${bindir}/fwknop"
+FILES:${PN}-client = "${bindir}/fwknop"
-FILES_${PN}-daemon = "${sbindir}/fwknopd \
+FILES:${PN}-daemon = "${sbindir}/fwknopd \
                      ${sysconfdir}/fwknop/access.conf \
                      ${sysconfdir}/fwknop/fwknopd.conf"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoip-perl_1.51.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoip-perl_1.51.bb
index 944c005763..1ee04bd475 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoip-perl_1.51.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoip-perl_1.51.bb
@@ -31,5 +31,5 @@ do_install_ptest () {
    install ${S}/t/data/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/t/data
 }
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/Geo/IP/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/Geo/IP/.debug"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoip_1.6.12.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoip_1.6.12.bb
index 143100e48e..775398474c 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoip_1.6.12.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoip_1.6.12.bb
@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ do_install() {
 }
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-database"
-FILES_${PN}-database = ""
+FILES:${PN}-database = ""
-FILES_${PN}-database += "${datadir}/GeoIP/*"
+FILES:${PN}-database += "${datadir}/GeoIP/*"
 # We cannot do much looking up without databases.
 #
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-database"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "${PN}-database"
 inherit ptest
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate_2.5.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate_2.5.0.bb
index f4eb2b799d..9494bd36ca 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate_2.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate_2.5.0.bb
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
 file://ChangeLog.md;md5=11d2e31df0de2be3ccc3e2286c4dafcb \
 "
-FILES_${PN} = "/usr/share/GeoIP \
+FILES:${PN} = "/usr/share/GeoIP \
              /etc/GeoIP.conf \
             /etc/cron.d/geoipupdate.cron \
             /usr/bin/geoipupdate \
 "
 inherit autotools
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}
    install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/cron.d
    install ${WORKDIR}/GeoIP.conf ${D}/${sysconfdir}/
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ifenslave/ifenslave_2.12.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ifenslave/ifenslave_2.12.bb
index db2d3a9648..0254823304 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ifenslave/ifenslave_2.12.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ifenslave/ifenslave_2.12.bb
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ do_install() {
    install -m 0755 -D ${S}/debian/ifenslave.if-up ${D}${sysconfdir}/network/if-up.d/ifenslave
 }
-FILES_${PN}-doc_remove = "${mandir}"
+FILES:${PN}-doc:remove = "${mandir}"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/libesmtp/libesmtp_1.0.6.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/libesmtp/libesmtp_1.0.6.bb
index 71c5d940b7..ed2a5d9044 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/libesmtp/libesmtp_1.0.6.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/libesmtp/libesmtp_1.0.6.bb
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = " \
    --disable-static                               \
 "
-FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS} \
+FILES:${PN} = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS} \
               ${libdir}/esmtp-plugins/*${SOLIBSDEV}"
-FILES_${PN}-dev  += "${libdir}/esmtp-plugins/*.la"
+FILES:${PN}-dev  += "${libdir}/esmtp-plugins/*.la"
-FILES_${PN}-static += "${libdir}/esmtp-plugins/*.a"
+FILES:${PN}-static += "${libdir}/esmtp-plugins/*.a"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/esmtp-plugins/.debug/"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/esmtp-plugins/.debug/"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/libldb/libldb_2.3.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/libldb/libldb_2.3.0.bb
index 3731c260b6..719353058e 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/libldb/libldb_2.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/libldb/libldb_2.3.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0+ & LGPL-2.1+ & GPL-3.0+"
 DEPENDS += "libtdb libtalloc libtevent popt"
-RDEPENDS_pyldb += "python3"
+RDEPENDS:pyldb += "python3"
 SRC_URI = "http://samba.org/ftp/ldb/ldb-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://0001-do-not-import-target-module-while-cross-compile.patch \
@@ -55,15 +55,15 @@ PACKAGES =+ "pyldb pyldb-dbg pyldb-dev"
 NOAUTOPACKAGEDEBUG = "1"
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/ldb/*"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/ldb/*"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${bindir}/.debug/* \
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${bindir}/.debug/* \
                    ${libdir}/.debug/* \
                    ${libdir}/ldb/.debug/* \
                    ${libdir}/ldb/modules/ldb/.debug/*"
-FILES_pyldb = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}/site-packages/* \
+FILES:pyldb = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}/site-packages/* \
               ${libdir}/libpyldb-util.*.so.* \
              "
-FILES_pyldb-dbg = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}/site-packages/.debug \
+FILES:pyldb-dbg = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}/site-packages/.debug \
                   ${libdir}/.debug/libpyldb-util.*.so.*"
-FILES_pyldb-dev = "${libdir}/libpyldb-util.*.so"
+FILES:pyldb-dev = "${libdir}/libpyldb-util.*.so"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtalloc/libtalloc_2.3.3.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtalloc/libtalloc_2.3.3.bb
index 1d227dac6c..e6e2066a5f 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtalloc/libtalloc_2.3.3.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtalloc/libtalloc_2.3.3.bb
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-rpath \
 PACKAGES += "pytalloc pytalloc-dev"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-dbg += "pytalloc-dbg"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-dbg += "pytalloc-dbg"
-FILES_pytalloc = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}/site-packages/* \
+FILES:pytalloc = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}/site-packages/* \
                  ${libdir}/libpytalloc-util.so.2 \
                  ${libdir}/libpytalloc-util.so.2.1.1 \
                 "
-FILES_pytalloc-dev = "${libdir}/libpytalloc-util.so"
+FILES:pytalloc-dev = "${libdir}/libpytalloc-util.so"
-RDEPENDS_pytalloc = "python3"
+RDEPENDS:pytalloc = "python3"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtdb/libtdb_1.4.3.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtdb/libtdb_1.4.3.bb
index c131014ff4..ad84593893 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtdb/libtdb_1.4.3.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtdb/libtdb_1.4.3.bb
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-rpath \
                 --with-libiconv=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix}\
                "
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
     # add this link for cross check python module existence. eg: on x86-64 host, check python module
     # under recipe-sysroot which is mips64.
     cd ${D}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}; ln -s tdb.*.so tdb.so
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ do_install_append() {
 PACKAGES += "tdb-tools python3-tdb"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-dbg += "python3-tdb-dbg"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-dbg += "python3-tdb-dbg"
-FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/*.so.*"
+FILES:${PN} = "${libdir}/*.so.*"
-FILES_tdb-tools = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:tdb-tools = "${bindir}/*"
-FILES_python3-tdb = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}/site-packages/*"
+FILES:python3-tdb = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}/site-packages/*"
-RDEPENDS_python3-tdb = "python3"
+RDEPENDS:python3-tdb = "python3"
-INSANE_SKIP_${MLPREFIX}python3-tdb = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${MLPREFIX}python3-tdb = "dev-so"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtevent/libtevent_0.10.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtevent/libtevent_0.10.2.bb
index 21f83ad35e..fa5b4ade8c 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtevent/libtevent_0.10.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/libtevent/libtevent_0.10.2.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv3+"
 DEPENDS += "libtalloc libtirpc"
-RDEPENDS_python3-tevent = "python3"
+RDEPENDS:python3-tevent = "python3"
 SRC_URI = "https://samba.org/ftp/tevent/tevent-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://options-0.10.0.patch \
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-rpath \
                 --with-libiconv=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix}\
                 --without-gettext \
                "
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
     # add this link for cross check python module existence. eg: on x86-64 host, check python module
     # under recipe-sysroot which is mips64. 
     cd ${D}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}; ln -s _tevent.*.so _tevent.so
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ do_install_append() {
 PACKAGES += "python3-tevent"
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-dbg += "python3-tevent-dbg"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-dbg += "python3-tevent-dbg"
-FILES_python3-tevent = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}/site-packages/*"
+FILES:python3-tevent = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}/site-packages/*"
-INSANE_SKIP_${MLPREFIX}python3-tevent = "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${MLPREFIX}python3-tevent = "dev-so"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/linux-atm/linux-atm_2.5.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/linux-atm/linux-atm_2.5.2.bb
index e594906c33..538fca7843 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/linux-atm/linux-atm_2.5.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/linux-atm/linux-atm_2.5.2.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/${BPN}/${BPN}/${PV}/${BPN}-${P
           file://0001-saaldump-atmdump-Include-linux-sockios.h-for-SIOCGST.patch \
 "
-SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = " file://musl-no-on_exit.patch"
+SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = " file://musl-no-on_exit.patch"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "d49499368c3cf15f73a05d9bce8824a8"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "9645481a2b16476b59220aa2d6bc5bc41043f291326c9b37581018fbd16dd53a"
@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig
 # The firmware is explicitly put under /lib when installed.
 #
-FILES_${PN} += "/lib/firmware"
+FILES:${PN} += "/lib/firmware"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/lksctp-tools/lksctp-tools_1.0.19.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/lksctp-tools/lksctp-tools_1.0.19.bb
index 5eea5c2089..4549a068c3 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/lksctp-tools/lksctp-tools_1.0.19.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/lksctp-tools/lksctp-tools_1.0.19.bb
@@ -39,25 +39,25 @@ SOLIBMAJORVERSION="1"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-withsctp ${PN}-utils"
-FILES_${PN} = " \
+FILES:${PN} = " \
    ${libdir}/libsctp.so.${SOLIBVERSION} \
    ${libdir}/libsctp.so.${SOLIBMAJORVERSION} \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-withsctp = " \
+FILES:${PN}-withsctp = " \
    ${libdir}/lksctp-tools/libwithsctp.so.${SOLIBVERSION} \
    ${libdir}/lksctp-tools/libwithsctp.so.${SOLIBMAJORVERSION} \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-dev += " \
+FILES:${PN}-dev += " \
    ${libdir}/libsctp.so \
    ${libdir}/lksctp-tools/libwithsctp.so \
    ${datadir}/lksctp-tools/*.c \
    ${datadir}/lksctp-tools/*.h \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/*"
+FILES:${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/*"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "kernel-module-sctp"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "kernel-module-sctp"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-utils += "kernel-module-sctp"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-utils += "kernel-module-sctp"
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-ptest += "kernel-module-sctp"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest += "kernel-module-sctp"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/lowpan-tools/lowpan-tools_git.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/lowpan-tools/lowpan-tools_git.bb
index 4a1bbe6206..197703e90d 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/lowpan-tools/lowpan-tools_git.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/lowpan-tools/lowpan-tools_git.bb
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "am_cv_python_pythondir=${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/lowpa
 CFLAGS += "-Wno-initializer-overrides"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    rmdir ${D}${localstatedir}/run
 }
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libexecdir}/lowpan-tools/.debug/"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libexecdir}/lowpan-tools/.debug/"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-python"
-FILES_${PN}-python = "${libdir}/python*"
+FILES:${PN}-python = "${libdir}/python*"
 PNBLACKLIST[lowpan-tools] ?= "WARNING these tools are deprecated! Use wpan-tools instead"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/macchanger/macchanger_1.7.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/macchanger/macchanger_1.7.0.bb
index 6506fd8ef7..f2b7ce953a 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/macchanger/macchanger_1.7.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/macchanger/macchanger_1.7.0.bb
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ SRC_URI = "https://github.com/alobbs/macchanger/releases/download/${PV}/${BPN}-$
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "ca56f16142914337391dac91603eb332"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "dae2717c270fd5f62d790dbf80c19793c651b1b26b62c101b82d5fdf25a845bf"
-FILES_${PN} = " \
+FILES:${PN} = " \
    ${bindir}/${BPN} \
    ${datadir}/${BPN}/wireless.list \
    ${datadir}/${BPN}/OUI.list \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-doc = " \
+FILES:${PN}-doc = " \
    ${datadir}/info \
    ${datadir}/man \
 "
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/memcached/memcached_1.6.9.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/memcached/memcached_1.6.9.bb
index 73e18a4038..adf3c34e11 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/memcached/memcached_1.6.9.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/memcached/memcached_1.6.9.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7e5ded7363d335e1bb18013ca08046ff"
 inherit autotools
 DEPENDS += "libevent"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "perl perl-module-posix perl-module-autoloader \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "perl perl-module-posix perl-module-autoloader \
    perl-module-tie-hash bash \
    "
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ inherit update-rc.d
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "memcached"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -D -m 755 ${S}/scripts/memcached-init ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/memcached
    mkdir -p ${D}/usr/share/memcached/scripts
    install -m 755 ${S}/scripts/memcached-tool ${D}/usr/share/memcached/scripts
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/mtr/mtr_0.94.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/mtr/mtr_0.94.bb
index 265eefb94b..c046499a2f 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/mtr/mtr_0.94.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/mtr/mtr_0.94.bb
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[ipv6] = "--enable-ipv6,--disable-ipv6,"
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-bash-completions"
-FILES_${PN}-bash-completions = "${datadir}/bash-completion/"
+FILES:${PN}-bash-completions = "${datadir}/bash-completion/"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nbd/nbd_3.20.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nbd/nbd_3.20.bb
index 12a82c25b4..589ac879c6 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nbd/nbd_3.20.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nbd/nbd_3.20.bb
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig
 PACKAGES = "${PN}-client ${PN}-server ${PN}-dbg ${PN}-trdump ${PN}-doc"
-FILES_${PN}-client = "${sbindir}/${BPN}-client"
+FILES:${PN}-client = "${sbindir}/${BPN}-client"
-FILES_${PN}-server = "${bindir}/${BPN}-server"
+FILES:${PN}-server = "${bindir}/${BPN}-server"
-FILES_${PN}-trdump = "${bindir}/${BPN}-trdump"
+FILES:${PN}-trdump = "${bindir}/${BPN}-trdump"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ncp/libowfat_0.32.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ncp/libowfat_0.32.bb
index ec24578b7e..4e67f6c91b 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ncp/libowfat_0.32.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ncp/libowfat_0.32.bb
@@ -27,6 +27,6 @@ do_install() {
        MAN3DIR=${mandir}/man3
 }
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ndisc6/ndisc6_git.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ndisc6/ndisc6_git.bb
index 5f866052c6..e9af2c43f4 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ndisc6/ndisc6_git.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ndisc6/ndisc6_git.bb
@@ -25,39 +25,39 @@ USE_NLS = "yes"
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-rpath"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    cp ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gettext/gettext.h ${S}/include
    ${S}/autogen.sh
 }
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    rm -rf ${D}${localstatedir}
    # Enable SUID bit for applications that need it
    chmod 4555 ${D}${bindir}/rltraceroute6
    chmod 4555 ${D}${bindir}/ndisc6
    chmod 4555 ${D}${bindir}/rdisc6
 }
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
 # Split into seperate packages since we normal don't want them all
 # The main package is left empty and therefore not created.
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-ndisc6 ${PN}-tcpspray6 ${PN}-rdisc6 \
    ${PN}-tcptraceroute6 ${PN}-rltraceroute6 \
    ${PN}-tracert6 ${PN}-rdnssd ${PN}-misc"
-FILES_${PN}            = ""
+FILES:${PN}            = ""
-FILES_${PN}-ndisc6        = "${bindir}/ndisc6"
+FILES:${PN}-ndisc6        = "${bindir}/ndisc6"
-FILES_${PN}-tcpspray6         = "${bindir}/tcpspray6"
+FILES:${PN}-tcpspray6         = "${bindir}/tcpspray6"
-FILES_${PN}-rdisc6        = "${bindir}/rdisc6"
+FILES:${PN}-rdisc6        = "${bindir}/rdisc6"
-FILES_${PN}-tcptraceroute6    = "${bindir}/tcptraceroute6"
+FILES:${PN}-tcptraceroute6    = "${bindir}/tcptraceroute6"
-FILES_${PN}-rltraceroute6    = "${bindir}/rltraceroute6"
+FILES:${PN}-rltraceroute6    = "${bindir}/rltraceroute6"
-FILES_${PN}-tracert6        = "${bindir}/tracert6"
+FILES:${PN}-tracert6        = "${bindir}/tracert6"
-FILES_${PN}-rdnssd        = "${sbindir}/rdnssd ${sysconfdir}/rdnssd"
+FILES:${PN}-rdnssd        = "${sbindir}/rdnssd ${sysconfdir}/rdnssd"
-FILES_${PN}-misc                = "${bindir}/dnssort ${bindir}/name2addr ${bindir}/tcpspray ${bindir}/addr2name"
+FILES:${PN}-misc                = "${bindir}/dnssort ${bindir}/name2addr ${bindir}/tcpspray ${bindir}/addr2name"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-ndisc6    = "ICMPv6 Neighbor Discovery tool. \
+DESCRIPTION:${PN}-ndisc6    = "ICMPv6 Neighbor Discovery tool. \
 Performs IPv6 neighbor discovery in userland. Replaces arping from the \
 IPv4 world."
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-rdisc6    = "ICMPv6 Router Discovery tool. \
+DESCRIPTION:${PN}-rdisc6    = "ICMPv6 Router Discovery tool. \
 Queries IPv6 routers on the network for advertised prefixes. Can be used \
 to detect rogue IPv6 routers, monitor legitimate IPv6 routers."
 DESCRITPION_${PN}-tcpspray6    = "Performs bandwidth measurements of TCP \
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ servers through slateless IPv6 autoconfiguration."
 # The tcptraceroute6 and tracert6 commands depend on rltraceroute6 to
 # perform the actual trace operation.
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-tcptraceroute6 = "${PN}-rltraceroute6"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-tcptraceroute6 = "${PN}-rltraceroute6"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-tracert6 = "${PN}-rltraceroute6"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-tracert6 = "${PN}-rltraceroute6"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-misc += "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-misc += "perl"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/netcat.inc b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/netcat.inc
index 15441645b0..9a8775b6c8 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/netcat.inc
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/netcat.inc
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ capabilities."
 SECTION = "net"
 inherit update-alternatives gettext pkgconfig
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "nc"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "nc"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/netcat_0.7.1.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/netcat_0.7.1.bb
index 1e113de519..fc09554975 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/netcat_0.7.1.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/netcat_0.7.1.bb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ inherit autotools
 CVE_PRODUCT = "netcat_project:netcat"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${bindir}
    mv ${D}${bindir}/nc ${D}${bindir}/nc.${BPN}
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcf/netcf_0.2.8.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcf/netcf_0.2.8.bb
index a180571f2d..88a19e2640 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcf/netcf_0.2.8.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcf/netcf_0.2.8.bb
@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 inherit gettext autotools perlnative pkgconfig systemd
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-target = " --with-driver=redhat"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:class-target = " --with-driver=redhat"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-sysinit=systemd,--with-sysinit=initscripts,"
 EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "-I ${S}/gnulib/m4"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    currdir=`pwd`
    cd ${S}
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ do_configure_prepend() {
    cd $currdir
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
       install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
       if [ -d "${D}${libdir}/systemd/system" ]; then
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ do_install_append() {
    fi
 }
-FILES_${PN} += " \
+FILES:${PN} += " \
        ${libdir} \
        ${nonarch_libdir} \
        "
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "netcf-transaction.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "netcf-transaction.service"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netperf/netperf_git.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netperf/netperf_git.bb
index 72efcb4f8a..724869b60a 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netperf/netperf_git.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netperf/netperf_git.bb
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 inherit update-rc.d autotools texinfo systemd
 # cpu_set.patch plus _GNU_SOURCE makes src/netlib.c compile with CPU_ macros
-CFLAGS_append = " -DDO_UNIX -DDO_IPV6 -D_GNU_SOURCE"
+CFLAGS:append = " -DDO_UNIX -DDO_IPV6 -D_GNU_SOURCE"
 # set the "_FILE_OFFSET_BITS" preprocessor symbol to 64 to support files
 # larger than 2GB
-CFLAGS_append = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'largefile', \
+CFLAGS:append = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'largefile', \
    ' -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', '', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[histogram] = "--enable-histogram,--disable-histogram,,"
 # autotools.bbclass attends to include m4 files with path depth <= 2 by
 # "find ${S} -maxdepth 2 -name \*.m4", so move m4 files from m4/m4.
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    test -d ${S}/m4/m4 && mv -f ${S}/m4/m4 ${S}/m4-files
 }
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ do_install() {
    install -m 0644 ${S}/doc/netperf_old.ps ${D}${docdir}/netperf
 }
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'sctp', 'kernel-module-sctp', '', d)}"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'sctp', 'kernel-module-sctp', '', d)}"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME="netperf"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS="defaults"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "netserver.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "netserver.service"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nghttp2/nghttp2_1.44.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nghttp2/nghttp2_1.44.0.bb
index 48ba5e314d..6e133ec203 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nghttp2/nghttp2_1.44.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nghttp2/nghttp2_1.44.0.bb
@@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = "-DENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF -DENABLE_APP=ON -DENABLE_HPACK_TOOLS=OFF"
 PACKAGES =+ "lib${PN} ${PN}-client ${PN}-proxy ${PN}-server"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "${PN}-client (>= ${PV}) ${PN}-proxy (>= ${PV}) ${PN}-server (>= ${PV})"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "${PN}-client (>= ${PV}) ${PN}-proxy (>= ${PV}) ${PN}-server (>= ${PV})"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-native = ""
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-proxy = "openssl python3-core python3-io python3-shell"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-proxy = "openssl python3-core python3-io python3-shell"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
-FILES_${PN} = ""
+FILES:${PN} = ""
-FILES_lib${PN} = "${libdir}/*${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:lib${PN} = "${libdir}/*${SOLIBS}"
-FILES_${PN}-client = "${bindir}/h2load ${bindir}/nghttp"
+FILES:${PN}-client = "${bindir}/h2load ${bindir}/nghttp"
-FILES_${PN}-proxy = "${bindir}/nghttpx ${datadir}/${BPN}/fetch-ocsp-response"
+FILES:${PN}-proxy = "${bindir}/nghttpx ${datadir}/${BPN}/fetch-ocsp-response"
-FILES_${PN}-server = "${bindir}/nghttpd"
+FILES:${PN}-server = "${bindir}/nghttpd"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/yp-tools_2.14.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/yp-tools_2.14.bb
index 8c6837bac9..8b7ed6fa28 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/yp-tools_2.14.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/yp-tools_2.14.bb
@@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ SRC_URI[md5sum] = "ba1f121c17e3ad65368be173b977cd13"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "d01f70fadc643a55107a0edc47c6be99d0306bcc4f66df56f65e74238b0124c9"
 inherit systemd
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "domainname.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "domainname.service"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RREPLACES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RREPLACES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_prog_STRIP=/bin/true"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/domainname.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/yp-tools_4.2.3.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/yp-tools_4.2.3.bb
index bb401666c6..ce22943d6f 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/yp-tools_4.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/yp-tools_4.2.3.bb
@@ -23,25 +23,25 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 DEPENDS = "libtirpc libnsl2 virtual/crypt"
 inherit autotools systemd
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "domainname.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "domainname.service"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RREPLACES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RREPLACES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_prog_STRIP=/bin/true"
 EXTRA_OECONF = " \
                --disable-rpath --disable-domainname \
               "
-CFLAGS_append_libc-musl = " -Wno-error=cpp"
+CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = " -Wno-error=cpp"
-FILES_${PN} += " ${libdir}/yp-nis/*.so.*.* ${libdir}/yp-nis/pkgconfig/"
+FILES:${PN} += " ${libdir}/yp-nis/*.so.*.* ${libdir}/yp-nis/pkgconfig/"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += " ${libdir}/yp-nis/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += " ${libdir}/yp-nis/.debug"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += " ${libdir}/yp-nis/*.so ${libdir}/yp-nis/*.so.[12] ${libdir}/yp-nis/*.la"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += " ${libdir}/yp-nis/*.so ${libdir}/yp-nis/*.so.[12] ${libdir}/yp-nis/*.la"
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += " ${libdir}/yp-nis/*.a"
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += " ${libdir}/yp-nis/*.a"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/domainname.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/ypbind-mt_2.6.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/ypbind-mt_2.6.bb
index 03b98c9c27..2c5e2bd939 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/ypbind-mt_2.6.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/ypbind-mt_2.6.bb
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ DEPENDS = " \
           yp-tools \
           ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', d)} \
          "
-DEPENDS_append_libc-musl = " bsd-headers nss"
+DEPENDS:append:libc-musl = " bsd-headers nss"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "yp-tools"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "yp-tools"
 # ypbind-mt now provides all the functionality of ypbind
 # and is used in place of it.
@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0696c0263c4fd48a4ff2ce6c109f05f37aab0f71646d81cb22c7c28591
 inherit systemd update-rc.d
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "ypbind.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "ypbind.service"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "ypbind"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 44 3 5 . stop 70 0 1 2 6 ."
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS = "ac_cv_prog_STRIP=/bin/true"
-CFLAGS_append = " -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/nss3 -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/nspr"
+CFLAGS:append = " -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/nss3 -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/nspr"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/rcS.d
@@ -58,6 +58,6 @@ do_install_append () {
 }
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RREPLACES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RREPLACES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntimed/ntimed_git.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntimed/ntimed_git.bb
index a749b16593..ccfe11288e 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntimed/ntimed_git.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntimed/ntimed_git.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SRCREV = "db0abbb4c80f2ecef6bc5d9639bca5bea28532a2"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 # use adjtimex on musl
-CFLAGS_append_libc-musl = " -Dntp_adjtime=adjtimex"
+CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = " -Dntp_adjtime=adjtimex"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "\
    'CC=${CC}' \
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ do_install () {
    install -D -m 0755 ntimed-client ${D}${sbindir}/ntimed-client
 }
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "ntimed-client"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "ntimed-client"
 PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN += "ntimed-client"
-FILES_ntimed-client = "${sbindir}/ntimed-client"
+FILES:ntimed-client = "${sbindir}/ntimed-client"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntopng/ndpi_3.4.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntopng/ndpi_3.4.bb
index 22e4d8e9ae..cfc60a7aab 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntopng/ndpi_3.4.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntopng/ndpi_3.4.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ inspection. Based on OpenDPI it includes ntop extensions"
 SECTION = "libdevel"
 DEPENDS = "libpcap"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += " libpcap"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " libpcap"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b52f2d57d10c4f7ee67a7eb9615d5d24"
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ inherit autotools-brokensep pkgconfig
 CPPFLAGS += "${SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION}"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    ${S}/autogen.sh
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntopng/ntopng_4.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntopng/ntopng_4.2.bb
index 5961866515..cc23207888 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntopng/ntopng_4.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntopng/ntopng_4.2.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ usability, and features."
 SECTION = "console/network"
 DEPENDS = "curl libmaxminddb libpcap lua mariadb ndpi json-c rrdtool zeromq"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash redis"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "bash redis"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
@@ -26,24 +26,24 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 # don't use the lua under thirdparty as it supports cross compiling badly
 export LUA_LIB = "${STAGING_LIBDIR}/liblua.a"
-LDFLAGS_append_mipsarch = " -latomic"
+LDFLAGS:append:mipsarch = " -latomic"
-LDFLAGS_append_powerpc = " -latomic"
+LDFLAGS:append:powerpc = " -latomic"
-LDFLAGS_append_riscv32 = " -latomic"
+LDFLAGS:append:riscv32 = " -latomic"
 inherit autotools-brokensep gettext systemd
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/ntopng.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "\
+FILES:${PN} += "\
    ${systemd_unitdir}/system/ntopng.service"
-FILES_${PN}-doc += "\
+FILES:${PN}-doc += "\
    /usr/man/man8/ntopng.8"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    ${S}/autogen.sh
 }
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "ntopng.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "ntopng.service"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp_4.2.8p15.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp_4.2.8p15.bb
index 37f67095c5..4a719ae9c8 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp_4.2.8p15.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp_4.2.8p15.bb
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-net-snmp-config=no \
                 --with-locfile=redhat \
                 --without-rpath \
                 "
-CFLAGS_append = " -DPTYS_ARE_GETPT -DPTYS_ARE_SEARCHED"
+CFLAGS:append = " -DPTYS_ARE_GETPT -DPTYS_ARE_SEARCHED"
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
 NTP_USER_HOME ?= "/var/lib/ntp"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system --home-dir ${NTP_USER_HOME} \
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system --home-dir ${NTP_USER_HOME} \
                       --no-create-home \
                       --shell /bin/false --user-group ntp"
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[debug] = "--enable-debugging,--disable-debugging"
 PACKAGECONFIG[mdns] = "ac_cv_header_dns_sd_h=yes,ac_cv_header_dns_sd_h=no,mdns"
 PACKAGECONFIG[ipv6] = "--enable-ipv6,--disable-ipv6,"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
    install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/ntp.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/ntpd ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
@@ -113,60 +113,60 @@ PACKAGES += "ntpdate sntp ntpdc ntpq ${PN}-tickadj ${PN}-utils"
 # ntp originally includes tickadj. It's split off for inclusion in small firmware images on platforms
 # with wonky clocks (e.g. OpenSlug)
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "${PN}-tickadj"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "${PN}-tickadj"
 # ntpd require libgcc for execution
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libgcc"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libgcc"
 # Handle move from bin to utils package
-RPROVIDES_${PN}-utils = "${PN}-bin"
+RPROVIDES:${PN}-utils = "${PN}-bin"
-RREPLACES_${PN}-utils = "${PN}-bin"
+RREPLACES:${PN}-utils = "${PN}-bin"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN}-utils = "${PN}-bin"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN}-utils = "${PN}-bin"
 # ntpdc and ntpq were split out of ntp-utils
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-utils = "ntpdc ntpq"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-utils = "ntpdc ntpq"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = "${PN} ntpdate sntp"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "ntpd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "ntpd.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_ntpdate = "ntpdate.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:ntpdate = "ntpdate.service"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_sntp = "sntp.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:sntp = "sntp.service"
-SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_sntp = "disable"
+SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:sntp = "disable"
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RREPLACES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RREPLACES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RPROVIDES_ntpdate += "ntpdate-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:ntpdate += "ntpdate-systemd"
-RREPLACES_ntpdate += "ntpdate-systemd"
+RREPLACES:ntpdate += "ntpdate-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_ntpdate += "ntpdate-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:ntpdate += "ntpdate-systemd"
-RSUGGESTS_${PN} = "iana-etc"
+RSUGGESTS:${PN} = "iana-etc"
-FILES_${PN} = "${sbindir}/ntpd.ntp ${sysconfdir}/ntp.conf ${sysconfdir}/init.d/ntpd \
+FILES:${PN} = "${sbindir}/ntpd.ntp ${sysconfdir}/ntp.conf ${sysconfdir}/init.d/ntpd \
    ${NTP_USER_HOME} \
    ${systemd_unitdir}/ntp-units.d/60-ntpd.list \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-tickadj = "${sbindir}/tickadj"
+FILES:${PN}-tickadj = "${sbindir}/tickadj"
-FILES_${PN}-utils = "${sbindir} ${datadir}/ntp/lib"
+FILES:${PN}-utils = "${sbindir} ${datadir}/ntp/lib"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-utils += "perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-utils += "perl"
-FILES_ntpdate = "${sbindir}/ntpdate \
+FILES:ntpdate = "${sbindir}/ntpdate \
    ${sysconfdir}/network/if-up.d/ntpdate-sync \
    ${bindir}/ntpdate-sync \
    ${sysconfdir}/default/ntpdate \
    ${systemd_unitdir}/system/ntpdate.service \
 "
-FILES_sntp = "${sbindir}/sntp \
+FILES:sntp = "${sbindir}/sntp \
              ${sysconfdir}/default/sntp \
              ${systemd_unitdir}/system/sntp.service \
             "
-FILES_ntpdc = "${sbindir}/ntpdc"
+FILES:ntpdc = "${sbindir}/ntpdc"
-FILES_ntpq = "${sbindir}/ntpq"
+FILES:ntpq = "${sbindir}/ntpq"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/ntp.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/ntp.conf"
-CONFFILES_ntpdate = "${sysconfdir}/default/ntpdate"
+CONFFILES:ntpdate = "${sysconfdir}/default/ntpdate"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "ntpd"
 # No dependencies, so just go in at the standard level (20)
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults"
-pkg_postinst_ntpdate() {
+pkg_postinst:ntpdate() {
    if ! grep -q -s ntpdate $D/var/spool/cron/root; then
        echo "adding crontab"
        test -d $D/var/spool/cron || mkdir -p $D/var/spool/cron
@@ -178,5 +178,5 @@ inherit update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "ntpd"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "ntpd"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[ntpd] = "${sbindir}/ntpd"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nuttcp/nuttcp_8.2.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nuttcp/nuttcp_8.2.2.bb
index 193caf3cf3..677b031a9f 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nuttcp/nuttcp_8.2.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nuttcp/nuttcp_8.2.2.bb
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ do_install () {
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/nuttcp.socket ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
 }
-FILES_${PN} += " \
+FILES:${PN} += " \
    ${bindir} \
    ${systemd_system_unitdir} \
 "
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nvmetcli/nvmetcli_0.7.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nvmetcli/nvmetcli_0.7.bb
index 31f55e3589..ec483321b6 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/nvmetcli/nvmetcli_0.7.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/nvmetcli/nvmetcli_0.7.bb
@@ -13,18 +13,18 @@ inherit systemd setuptools3
 # file. This file is not installed by default since the configuration will vary
 # on real systems. Example configuration files are provided by including the
 # nvmetcli-examples package.
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "nvmet.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "nvmet.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE ?= "disable"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python3 python3-six python3-pyparsing python3-configshell-fb"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "python3 python3-six python3-pyparsing python3-configshell-fb"
 SRCREV = "0a6b088db2dc2e5de11e6f23f1e890e4b54fee64"
 SRC_URI = "git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/nvmetcli.git;branch=master"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    # Install example configuration scripts.
    install -d ${D}${datadir}/nvmet
    cp -fr ${S}/examples ${D}${datadir}/nvmet/
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ do_install_append() {
 # Examples package contains example json files used to configure nvmet.
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-examples"
-FILES_${PN}-examples = "${datadir}/nvmet/examples/*"
+FILES:${PN}-examples = "${datadir}/nvmet/examples/*"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-isns/open-isns_0.101.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-isns/open-isns_0.101.bb
index 0b1bb6d512..6766478194 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-isns/open-isns_0.101.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-isns/open-isns_0.101.bb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ inherit systemd autotools-brokensep update-rc.d
 EXTRA_OECONF = " --prefix=${prefix} --enable-shared"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += "SYSTEMDDIR=${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    oe_runmake INCDIR=${D}${includedir}/libisns/ install_hdrs
    oe_runmake LIBDIR=${D}${libdir} install_lib
@@ -35,6 +35,6 @@ do_install_append () {
        ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/openisns
 }
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir} ${systemd_unitdir}"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir} ${systemd_unitdir}"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "openisns"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_11.2.5.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_11.2.5.bb
index 473af8d41b..116ff81a3d 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_11.2.5.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_11.2.5.bb
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ SECTION = "vmware-tools"
 LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0 & GPL-2.0 & BSD & CDDL-1.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=559317809c5444fb39ceaf6ac45c43ac"
-LICENSE_modules/freebsd/vmblock = "BSD"
+LICENSE:modules/freebsd/vmblock = "BSD"
-LICENSE_modules/freebsd/vmmemctl = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:modules/freebsd/vmmemctl = "GPL-2.0"
-LICENSE_modules/freebsd/vmxnet = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:modules/freebsd/vmxnet = "GPL-2.0"
-LICENSE_modules/linux = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:modules/linux = "GPL-2.0"
-LICENSE_modules/solaris = "CDDL-1.0"
+LICENSE:modules/solaris = "CDDL-1.0"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools.git;protocol=https \
    file://tools.conf \
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools.git;protocol=https \
    file://0001-pollGtk-Fix-volatile-qualifier-exposed-incorrectly.patch;patchdir=.. \
 "
-SRC_URI_append_libc-musl = " file://0001-Add-resolv_compat.h-for-musl-builds.patch;patchdir=.. \
+SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = " file://0001-Add-resolv_compat.h-for-musl-builds.patch;patchdir=.. \
 "
 SRCREV = "7ae57c3c7c1f68c74637ad009673dae94ee52570"
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ COMPATIBLE_HOST = '(x86_64.*|i.86.*)-linux'
 inherit autotools pkgconfig systemd update-rc.d
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "vmtoolsd.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "vmtoolsd.service"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--without-icu --disable-multimon --disable-docs \
         --disable-tests --without-gtkmm --without-xerces --without-pam \
@@ -76,20 +76,20 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[x11] = ",${NO_X11_FLAGS},${X11_DEPENDS}"
 # fuse gets implicitly detected; there is no --without-fuse option.
 PACKAGECONFIG[fuse] = ",,fuse"
-CFLAGS_append_toolchain-clang = " -Wno-address-of-packed-member"
+CFLAGS:append:toolchain-clang = " -Wno-address-of-packed-member"
-FILES_${PN} += "\
+FILES:${PN} += "\
    ${libdir}/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/lib*.so \
    ${libdir}/open-vm-tools/plugins/common/lib*.so \
    ${sysconfdir}/vmware-tools/tools.conf \
 "
-FILES_${PN}-locale += "${datadir}/open-vm-tools/messages"
+FILES:${PN}-locale += "${datadir}/open-vm-tools/messages"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/open-vm-tools/plugins/common/lib*.la"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/open-vm-tools/plugins/common/lib*.la"
-CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/vmware-tools/tools.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/vmware-tools/tools.conf"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "util-linux libdnet fuse"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "util-linux libdnet fuse"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    if ! ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','usrmerge','true','false',d)}; then
        install -d ${D}/sbin
        ln -sf ${sbindir}/mount.vmhgfs ${D}/sbin/mount.vmhgfs
@@ -105,14 +105,14 @@ do_install_append() {
    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/tools.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/vmware-tools/tools.conf
 }
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    export CUSTOM_DNET_NAME=dnet
    export CUSTOM_DNET_LIBS=-L${STAGING_LIBDIR}/libdnet.so
 }
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN} = "vmtoolsd"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN} = "vmtoolsd"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN} = "start 90 2 3 4 5 . stop 60 0 1 6 ."
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN} = "start 90 2 3 4 5 . stop 60 0 1 6 ."
 python() {
    if 'filesystems-layer' not in d.getVar('BBFILE_COLLECTIONS').split():
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/openipmi/openipmi_2.0.31.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/openipmi/openipmi_2.0.31.bb
index d172083bb6..ecc98dd8be 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/openipmi/openipmi_2.0.31.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/openipmi/openipmi_2.0.31.bb
@@ -50,16 +50,16 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gdbm"
 PACKAGECONFIG[gdbm] = "ac_cv_header_gdbm_h=yes,ac_cv_header_gdbm_h=no,gdbm,"
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-perl ${PN}-python"
-PRIVATE_LIBS_${PN}-perl = "libOpenIPMI.so.0"
+PRIVATE_LIBS:${PN}-perl = "libOpenIPMI.so.0"
-FILES_${PN}-perl = " \
+FILES:${PN}-perl = " \
    ${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/OpenIPMI.pm \
    ${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/OpenIPMI/OpenIPMI.so \
    "
-FILES_${PN}-python = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
+FILES:${PN}-python = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += " \
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += " \
    ${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/OpenIPMI/.debug \
    ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/.debug \
    "
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ do_configure () {
    done
 }
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    echo "SAL: D = $D"
    echo "SAL: libdir = $libdir"
    install -m 0755 -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
@@ -108,5 +108,5 @@ do_install_append () {
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "ipmi"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 30 . stop 70 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ."
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "ipmi.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "ipmi.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/openvpn/openvpn_2.5.3.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/openvpn/openvpn_2.5.3.bb
index 7f4cc189ce..a70e9708de 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/openvpn/openvpn_2.5.3.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/openvpn/openvpn_2.5.3.bb
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "75f0044df449430555ca7b995a2b77ab24f2946fdc3668301b8edc2398
 # CVE-2020-7224 and CVE-2020-27569 are for Aviatrix OpenVPN client, not for openvpn.
 CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2020-7224 CVE-2020-27569"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} += "openvpn@loopback-server.service openvpn@loopback-client.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} += "openvpn@loopback-server.service openvpn@loopback-client.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"
 INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-INITSCRIPT_NAME_${PN} = "openvpn"
+INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN} = "openvpn"
-INITSCRIPT_PARAMS_${PN} = "start 10 2 3 4 5 . stop 70 0 1 6 ."
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN} = "start 10 2 3 4 5 . stop 70 0 1 6 ."
 CFLAGS += "-fno-inline"
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '', '--disable-p
 # Explicitly specify IPROUTE to bypass the configure-time check for /sbin/ip on the host.
 EXTRA_OECONF += "IPROUTE=${base_sbindir}/ip"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/init.d
    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/openvpn ${D}/${sysconfdir}/init.d
@@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ do_install_append() {
 PACKAGES =+ " ${PN}-sample "
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "kernel-module-tun"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "kernel-module-tun"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/openvpn/plugins/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/openvpn/plugins/.debug"
-FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/openvpn@.service \
+FILES:${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/openvpn@.service \
                ${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d \
               "
-FILES_${PN}-sample += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/openvpn@loopback-server.service \
+FILES:${PN}-sample += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/openvpn@loopback-server.service \
                       ${systemd_unitdir}/system/openvpn@loopback-client.service \
                       ${sysconfdir}/openvpn/sample/"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/pimd/pimd_2.3.2.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/pimd/pimd_2.3.2.bb
index df9e85d7de..2b622ae6d0 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/pimd/pimd_2.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/pimd/pimd_2.3.2.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.troglobit.com/pimd/${BP}.tar.gz \
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a3c03e40540980b2c06e265a17988e60"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c77a9812751f114490a28a6839b16aac8b020c8d9fd6aa22bf3880c054e19f1d"
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_libc-musl = " --embedded-libc"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:libc-musl = " --embedded-libc"
 inherit autotools-brokensep update-alternatives
@@ -20,5 +20,5 @@ do_configure() {
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "pimd"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "pimd"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[pimd] = "${sbindir}/pimd"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/rdma-core/rdma-core_35.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/rdma-core/rdma-core_35.0.bb
index af4b3788ba..dcdfb5bd40 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/rdma-core/rdma-core_35.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/rdma-core/rdma-core_35.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "This is the userspace components for the Linux Kernel's drivers I
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "libnl"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash perl"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "bash perl"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core.git"
 SRCREV = "e29a698e99028e9a092bb00c03ee4bfa31ae0cf3"
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
 LTO = ""
 FILES_SOLIBSDEV = ""
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/*"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/*"
-INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "dev-so"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN} += "dev-so"
 inherit cmake cpan-base python3native systemd
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = " \
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = " \
    srp_daemon.service \
    iwpmd.service \
    ibacm.socket \
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/spice/spice_git.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/spice/spice_git.bb
index 52dad71242..b0f1d51107 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/spice/spice_git.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/spice/spice_git.bb
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 inherit autotools gettext python3native python3-dir pkgconfig
 DEPENDS += "spice-protocol jpeg pixman alsa-lib glib-2.0 python3-pyparsing-native python3-six-native glib-2.0-native"
-DEPENDS_append_class-nativesdk = " nativesdk-openssl"
+DEPENDS:append:class-nativesdk = " nativesdk-openssl"
 export PYTHON="${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/python3-native/python3"
-CFLAGS_append = " -Wno-error"
+CFLAGS:append = " -Wno-error"
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-native = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-native = ""
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-nativesdk = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-nativesdk = ""
 PACKAGECONFIG ?= "sasl"
 PACKAGECONFIG[celt051] = "--enable-celt051,--disable-celt051,celt051"
@@ -56,4 +56,4 @@ COMPATIBLE_HOST = '(x86_64|i.86).*-linux'
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_toolchain-clang = " --disable-werror"
+EXTRA_OECONF:append:toolchain-clang = " --disable-werror"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ssmtp/ssmtp_2.64.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ssmtp/ssmtp_2.64.bb
index bae29aa80e..decac0c2b3 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ssmtp/ssmtp_2.64.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ssmtp/ssmtp_2.64.bb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE = "GEN_CONFIG='/bin/true'"
 LDFLAGS += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'ssl', '-lssl -lcrypto', '', d)}"
-do_install_append () {
+do_install:append () {
    install -d ${D}${mandir}/
    mv ${D}${exec_prefix}/man/* ${D}${mandir}/
    rmdir ${D}${exec_prefix}/man
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ do_install_append () {
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY_${PN} = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "mailq newaliases sendmail"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "mailq newaliases sendmail"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sendmail] = "${sbindir}/sendmail"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[newaliases] = "${sbindir}/newaliases"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[mailq] = "${sbindir}/mailq"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/strongswan/strongswan_5.9.3.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/strongswan/strongswan_5.9.3.bb
index 8a704f6dc4..ad104e44ed 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/strongswan/strongswan_5.9.3.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/strongswan/strongswan_5.9.3.bb
@@ -47,17 +47,17 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[systemd-charon] = "--enable-systemd,--disable-systemd,systemd,"
 inherit autotools systemd pkgconfig
-RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "kernel-module-ipsec"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "kernel-module-ipsec"
-FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/ipsec/lib*${SOLIBS}"
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/ipsec/lib*${SOLIBS}"
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${bindir}/.debug ${sbindir}/.debug ${libdir}/ipsec/.debug ${libexecdir}/ipsec/.debug"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${bindir}/.debug ${sbindir}/.debug ${libdir}/ipsec/.debug ${libexecdir}/ipsec/.debug"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/ipsec/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} ${libdir}/ipsec/*.la ${libdir}/ipsec/include/config.h"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/ipsec/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} ${libdir}/ipsec/*.la ${libdir}/ipsec/include/config.h"
-FILES_${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/ipsec/*.a"
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${libdir}/ipsec/*.a"
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/*.conf ${sysconfdir}/ipsec.d/*.conf ${sysconfdir}/strongswan.d/*.conf"
+CONFFILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/*.conf ${sysconfdir}/ipsec.d/*.conf ${sysconfdir}/strongswan.d/*.conf"
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-plugins"
-ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-plugins = "1"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-plugins = "1"
 PACKAGES_DYNAMIC += "^${PN}-plugin-.*$"
 NOAUTOPACKAGEDEBUG = "1"
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ python split_strongswan_plugins () {
    def add_plugin_conf(f, pkg, file_regex, output_pattern, modulename):
        dvar = d.getVar('PKGD')
-        oldfiles = d.getVar('CONFFILES_' + pkg)
+        oldfiles = d.getVar('CONFFILES:' + pkg)
        newfile = '/' + os.path.relpath(f, dvar)
        if not oldfiles:
-            d.setVar('CONFFILES_' + pkg, newfile)
+            d.setVar('CONFFILES:' + pkg, newfile)
        else:
-            d.setVar('CONFFILES_' + pkg, oldfiles + " " + newfile)
+            d.setVar('CONFFILES:' + pkg, oldfiles + " " + newfile)
    split_packages = do_split_packages(d, libdir, 'libstrongswan-(.*)\.so', '${PN}-plugin-%s', 'strongSwan %s plugin', prepend=True)
    do_split_packages(d, sysconfdir, '(.*)\.conf', '${PN}-plugin-%s', 'strongSwan %s plugin', prepend=True, hook=add_plugin_conf)
@@ -86,17 +86,17 @@ python split_strongswan_plugins () {
    if split_packages:
        pn = d.getVar('PN')
-        d.setVar('RRECOMMENDS_' + pn + '-plugins', ' '.join(split_packages))
+        d.setVar('RRECOMMENDS:' + pn + '-plugins', ' '.join(split_packages))
-        d.appendVar('RRECOMMENDS_' + pn + '-dbg', ' ' + ' '.join(split_dbg_packages))
+        d.appendVar('RRECOMMENDS:' + pn + '-dbg', ' ' + ' '.join(split_dbg_packages))
-        d.appendVar('RRECOMMENDS_' + pn + '-dev', ' ' + ' '.join(split_dev_packages))
+        d.appendVar('RRECOMMENDS:' + pn + '-dev', ' ' + ' '.join(split_dev_packages))
-        d.appendVar('RRECOMMENDS_' + pn + '-staticdev', ' ' + ' '.join(split_staticdev_packages))
+        d.appendVar('RRECOMMENDS:' + pn + '-staticdev', ' ' + ' '.join(split_staticdev_packages))
 }
-PACKAGESPLITFUNCS_prepend = "split_strongswan_plugins "
+PACKAGESPLITFUNCS:prepend = "split_strongswan_plugins "
 # Install some default plugins based on default strongSwan ./configure options
 # See https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Pluginlist
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
    ${PN}-plugin-aes \
    ${PN}-plugin-attr \
    ${PN}-plugin-cmac \
@@ -130,14 +130,14 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
    ${PN}-plugin-curve25519 \
    "
-RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RPROVIDES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RREPLACES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RREPLACES:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
-RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
+RCONFLICTS:${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
 # The deprecated legacy 'strongswan-starter' service should only be used when charon and
 # stroke are enabled. When swanctl is in use, 'strongswan.service' is needed.
 # See: https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Charon-systemd
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = " \
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = " \
    ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'swanctl', '${BPN}.service', '', d)} \
    ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'charon', '${BPN}-starter.service', '', d)} \
 "
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel_5.59.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel_5.59.bb
index e3704ae1d0..9321070bc8 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel_5.59.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/stunnel/stunnel_5.59.bb
@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE += "DEFAULT_GROUP='nogroup'"
 # stunnel3 is a Perl wrapper to allow use of the legacy stunnel 3.x commandline
 # syntax with stunnel >= 4.05
 PACKAGES =+ "stunnel3"
-FILES_stunnel3 = "${bindir}/stunnel3"
+FILES:stunnel3 = "${bindir}/stunnel3"
-RDEPENDS_stunnel3 += "${PN} perl"
+RDEPENDS:stunnel3 += "${PN} perl"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/tcpdump/tcpdump_4.99.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/tcpdump/tcpdump_4.99.0.bb
index 66510b7fde..97a9027af4 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/tcpdump/tcpdump_4.99.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/tcpdump/tcpdump_4.99.0.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=5eb289217c160e2920d2e35bddc36453"
 DEPENDS = "libpcap"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " make perl \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " make perl \
        perl-module-file-basename \
        perl-module-file-spec \
        perl-module-file-spec-unix \
@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[smb] = "--enable-smb,--disable-smb"
 EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "-I m4"
-do_configure_prepend() {
+do_configure:prepend() {
    mkdir -p ${S}/m4
    if [ -f aclocal.m4 ]; then
        mv aclocal.m4 ${S}/m4
    fi
 }
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    # make install installs an unneeded extra copy of the tcpdump binary
    rm ${D}${bindir}/tcpdump.${PV}
 }
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.11.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.11.0.bb
index 7fb29279ea..f20013b192 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.11.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.11.0.bb
@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@ inherit autotools systemd useradd
 #User specific
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
-USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system --home /dev/null \
+USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = "--system --home /dev/null \
                       --no-user-group --gid nogroup tinyproxy"
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES += "${BPN}"
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "tinyproxy.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "tinyproxy.service"
-SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN} = "enable"
+SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:${PN} = "enable"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
                install -d ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
                install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/tinyproxy.service ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/tnftp/tnftp_20151004.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/tnftp/tnftp_20151004.bb
index 83ad11b0e9..8e03f1bdb9 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/tnftp/tnftp_20151004.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/tnftp/tnftp_20151004.bb
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ inherit autotools update-alternatives pkgconfig
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "ftp"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "ftp"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME_${PN} = "${bindir}/ftp"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET_${PN}  = "${bindir}/tnftp"
-FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/tnftp"
+FILES:${PN} = "${bindir}/tnftp"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6d6796cb166a9bb050958241dad9479e"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a49fbe752318d5a7893f900046ea00d5"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/traceroute/traceroute_2.1.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/traceroute/traceroute_2.1.0.bb
index c673ed0094..82077db546 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/traceroute/traceroute_2.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/traceroute/traceroute_2.1.0.bb
@@ -41,5 +41,5 @@ do_install() {
 }
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
-ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "traceroute"
+ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "traceroute"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[traceroute] = "${bindir}/traceroute"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/unbound/unbound_1.12.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/unbound/unbound_1.12.0.bb
index 6fc1631714..8ab8b7b84f 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/unbound/unbound_1.12.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/unbound/unbound_1.12.0.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SRCREV="52b04806f4236c37acd10179ab465a54adc7e86a"
 inherit autotools pkgconfig systemd update-rc.d
 DEPENDS = "openssl libevent libtool-native bison-native expat"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash openssl-bin daemonize"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "bash openssl-bin daemonize"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[dnscrypt] = "--enable-dnscrypt, --disable-dnscrypt, libsodium"
 PACKAGECONFIG[largefile] = "--enable-largefile,--disable-largefile,,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--enable-systemd,--disable-systemd,systemd"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
        install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
        install -m 0644 ${B}/contrib/unbound.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ do_install_append() {
        install -m 0755 ${S}/contrib/unbound.init ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/unbound
 }
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "${BPN}.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "${BPN}.service"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "unbound"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/vnstat/vnstat_2.6.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/vnstat/vnstat_2.6.bb
index ad8802f3a6..a7e008e55e 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/vnstat/vnstat_2.6.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/vnstat/vnstat_2.6.bb
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig systemd
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-extra-paths"
-do_install_append() {
+do_install:append() {
    install -Dm644 ${S}/examples/systemd/vnstat.service "${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/vnstat.service"
 }
 PARALLEL_MAKEINST = ""
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "vnstat.service"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "vnstat.service"
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/wireshark/README b/meta-networking/recipes-support/wireshark/README
index 63b5b72631..f5e4d04777 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/wireshark/README
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/wireshark/README
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ Adding the wireshark to your build
 ========================================
 via local.conf
-IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " wireshark"
+IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " wireshark"
 Adding the wireshark to your graphical build
 ========================================
 via local.conf
-IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " wireshark"
+IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " wireshark"
 and one of:
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/wireshark/wireshark_3.4.7.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/wireshark/wireshark_3.4.7.bb
index 7bc5a8150c..fc360f6691 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/wireshark/wireshark_3.4.7.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/wireshark/wireshark_3.4.7.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6e271234ba1a13c6e512e76b94ac2f77"
 DEPENDS = "pcre expat glib-2.0 glib-2.0-native libgcrypt libgpg-error libxml2 bison-native c-ares"
-DEPENDS_append_class-target = " wireshark-native chrpath-replacement-native "
+DEPENDS:append:class-target = " wireshark-native chrpath-replacement-native "
 SRC_URI = "https://1.eu.dl.wireshark.org/src/all-versions/wireshark-${PV}.tar.xz"
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ inherit cmake pkgconfig python3native perlnative upstream-version-is-even mime m
 PACKAGECONFIG ?= "libpcap gnutls libnl libcap sbc"
-PACKAGECONFIG_class-native = "libpcap gnutls ssl libssh"
+PACKAGECONFIG:class-native = "libpcap gnutls ssl libssh"
 PACKAGECONFIG[libcap] = "-DENABLE_CAP=ON,-DENABLE_CAP=OFF -DENABLE_PCAP_NG_DEFAULT=ON, libcap"
 PACKAGECONFIG[libpcap] = "-DENABLE_PCAP=ON,-DENABLE_PCAP=OFF -DENABLE_PCAP_NG_DEFAULT=ON , libpcap"
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE += "-DENABLE_NETLINK=ON \
                  -DM_INCLUDE_DIR=${includedir} \
                  -DM_LIBRARY=${libdir} \
                 "
-CFLAGS_append = " -lm"
+CFLAGS:append = " -lm"
-do_install_append_class-native() {
+do_install:append:class-native() {
        install -d ${D}${bindir}
        for f in lemon
        do
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ do_install_append_class-native() {
        done
 }
-do_install_append_class-target() {
+do_install:append:class-target() {
        for f in `find ${D}${libdir} ${D}${bindir} -type f -executable`
        do
                chrpath --delete $f
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ do_install_append_class-target() {
 PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN += "tshark"
-FILES_tshark = "${bindir}/tshark ${mandir}/man1/tshark.*"
+FILES:tshark = "${bindir}/tshark ${mandir}/man1/tshark.*"
-FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}*"
+FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}*"
-RDEPENDS_tshark = "wireshark"
+RDEPENDS:tshark = "wireshark"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"