Re: SRCREV how is it supposed to work?

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:46:18PM +0100, Hans Beckérus wrote:
> Hi. I am wondering if we are using SRCREV wrong somehow.
> Is it expected that if we use SRCREV = "${AUTOREV}", that any changes
> to the remote should be automatically detected and downloaded/fetched?
> I can no see that this is actually what happens. Any changes made to
> the remote still need to be manually fetched or indirectly by stepping
> the recipe revision.
> Are we using SRCREV wrong or is this actually the way it is supposed
> to work? Also, is there some way to force a download to me made every
> single time by a recipe,
> irrespective of if the remote changed or not?

It's supposed to run git ls-remote while parsing to get latest revision
in remote repo and then rebuild the package because of SRCPV change in
PV, are you using something like:

PV = "1.0+git${SRCPV}"

?

> 
> Thanks.
> Hans
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