dev-manual: correct OVERRIDES to FILESOVERRIDES for FILESPATH

It's "FILESOVERRIDES" that defines how OE uses FILESPATH, not
"OVERRIDES".

(From yocto-docs rev: 7143ee49cab226d355d5fb8685bfe0456fcdfdd7)

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 77ae9193d5793a92d6fc77db88dddbce54079fd3)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
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Robert P. J. Day
2026-09-15 10:00:43 -04:00
committed by Paul Barker
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@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ important as it ensures that items in the list remain colon-separated.
append file would not even use the :term:`FILESEXTRAPATHS` statement.
The end result of this ``.bbappend`` file is that on a Raspberry Pi, where
``rpi`` will exist in the list of :term:`OVERRIDES`, the file
``rpi`` will exist in the list of :term:`FILESOVERRIDES`, the file
``meta-raspberrypi/recipes-bsp/formfactor/formfactor/rpi/machconfig`` will be
used during :ref:`ref-tasks-fetch` and the test for a non-zero file size in
:ref:`ref-tasks-install` will return true, and the file will be installed.
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ file is in the layer at ``recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver``::
Building off of the previous example, we once again are setting the
:term:`FILESEXTRAPATHS` variable. In this case we are also using
:term:`SRC_URI` to list additional source files to use when ``rpi`` is found in
the list of :term:`OVERRIDES`. The :ref:`ref-tasks-install` task will then perform a
the list of :term:`FILESOVERRIDES`. The :ref:`ref-tasks-install` task will then perform a
check for an additional :term:`MACHINE_FEATURES` that if set will cause these
additional files to be installed. These additional files are listed in
:term:`FILES` so that they will be packaged.