aarcane@yoct02:~/poky/build⟫ bitbake-layers show-layers                                                       [1/890]
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layer                 path                                      priority
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meta                  /home/aarcane/poky/meta                   5
meta-poky             /home/aarcane/poky/meta-poky              5
meta-yocto-bsp        /home/aarcane/poky/meta-yocto-bsp         5
meta-mender-core      /home/aarcane/poky/meta-mender/meta-mender-core  6
meta-oe               /home/aarcane/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe  6
meta-python           /home/aarcane/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-python  7
meta-raspberrypi      /home/aarcane/poky/meta-raspberrypi       9
meta-mender-raspberrypi  /home/aarcane/poky/meta-mender/meta-mender-raspberrypi  10
meta-redacted         /home/aarcane/meta-redacted               5
meta-networking       /home/aarcane/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking  5
aarcane@yoct02:~/poky/build⟫ bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-web-kiosk
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ERROR: ExpansionError during parsing /home/aarcane/poky/meta-web-kiosk/recipes-browser/vala/vala_0.16.0.bb:  --:--:-$
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/aarcane/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 412, in DataSmart.expandWithRefs(s='http://ftp.gnome.$rg/pub/GNOME/sources/${BPN}/${SHRT_VER}/${BP}.tar.xz  file://0001-git-version-gen-don-t-append-dirty-if-we-re-not-in$g.patch', varname='SRC_URI'):
                 try:
    >                s = __expand_var_regexp__.sub(varparse.var_sub, s)
                     try:
  File "/home/aarcane/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 111, in VariableParse.var_sub(match=<_sre.SRE_Match o$ject; span=(46, 57), match='${SHRT_VER}'>):
                 else:
    >                var = self.d.getVarFlag(key, "_content")
                 self.references.add(key)
  File "/home/aarcane/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 794, in DataSmart.getVarFlag(var='SHRT_VER', flag='_c$ntent', expand=True, noweakdefault=False, parsing=False):
                     cachename = var + "[" + flag + "]"
    >            value = self.expand(value, cachename)

  File "/home/aarcane/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 436, in DataSmart.expand(s="${@bb.data.getVar('PV',d,$).split('.')[0]}.${@bb.data.getVar('PV',d,1).split('.')[1]}", varname='SHRT_VER'):
         def expand(self, s, varname = None):
    >        return self.expandWithRefs(s, varname).value

  File "/home/aarcane/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 426, in DataSmart.expandWithRefs(s="${@bb.data.getVar$'PV',d,1).split('.')[0]}.${@bb.data.getVar('PV',d,1).split('.')[1]}", varname='SHRT_VER'):
                 except Exception as exc:
    >                raise ExpansionError(varname, s, exc) from exc

bb.data_smart.ExpansionError: Failure expanding variable SHRT_VER, expression was ${@bb.data.getVar('PV',d,1).split($.')[0]}.${@bb.data.getVar('PV',d,1).split('.')[1]} which triggered exception AttributeError: module 'bb.data' has no attribute 'getVar'


Summary: There was 1 ERROR message shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
ERROR: Parse failure with the specified layer added
1 aarcane@yoct02:~/poky/build⟫ cd ../meta-web-kiosk/
aarcane@yoct02:~/poky/meta-web-kiosk⟫ ls
conf  COPYING.MIT  MAINTAINERS  README  recipes-browser  recipes-bsp  recipes-common  recipes-manager
aarcane@yoct02:~/poky/meta-web-kiosk⟫ git branch --list --all
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/lc_demo
  remotes/origin/master