From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [66.111.4.27] (helo=out3.smtp.messagingengine.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KlBDt-0002OP-B1 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:35:13 +0200 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95B2171525 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:31:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:31:01 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: sM4SvD/rkkJg5kqyhk1Rz0Ffwas4Yo8LdthD9RRacGhY 1222903861 Received: from [192.168.1.11] (secure.astc-design.com [203.122.250.137]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D9D9B15B0E for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:31:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <48E4082D.9030000@whitby.id.au> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:00:53 +0930 From: Rod Whitby User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <48E36C18.4090504@smartlink.ee> <873ajglc0d.fsf@neumann.lab.ossystems.com.br> <48E3762E.6000203@smartlink.ee> <359c5480810010634m377ab993rd030d8c0c917b8b3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: git master not updating X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:35:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Koen Kooi wrote: > On 01-10-2008 15:34, Nicola Mfb wrote: >> 2008/10/1 Kalev Lember >> [...] >> >>> Well yes, but if you just do: >>> git clone git://git.openembedded.net/org.openembedded.dev >>> >>> you'll end up on master branch, which is not updating. >> >> Yes, the same here, i opened one of those bugs. >> I'm using a semiautomated makefile environment for fso/openmoko, this use >> git and not monotone, so this problem affects a lot of peoples, please fix! > > That's what you get for using makefiles.... A typical response from Koen. Sigh. For once it would be good for him to focus on the problem at hand (which was reported correctly with no mention of makefiles) instead of trying to take childish potshots at things he has a personal vendetta against. A number of places on the internet (including http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardAndOpenEmbeddedGit, http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Git, http://wiki.neurostechnology.com/index.php/OpenEmbedded_OSD2, http://linux.paduli.org/index.php?title=OpenEmbedded%2C_linux%2C_software_e_sviluppo_per_dispositivi_embedded!, just for some examples) advise users to type the following command to clone the trial OE git repo, with no mention of needing a specific branch: git clone git://git.openembedded.net/org.openembedded.dev/ In fact, Koen himself advised users to use exactly that command (and no mention of needing to check out a specific branch) in the #beagle IRC channel on 14th June 2008 (see http://www.beagleboard.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2008-06-14 at [12:43:48]). That used to work, and now it doesn't, due to an unannounced change to the operation of the trial OE git repo. Note that I've been careful to say "trial OE git repo" everywhere, since it's still a trial and there is no official OE documentation on whether you should be pulling from the master branch or the org.openembedded.dev branch (and as can be seen from the BeagleBoard page above, and Koen's instructions to people on the #beagle IRC channel, the confusion exists independently of whether a makefile is used or not). So anyone using the trial OE git repo does so at their own risk. The beauty of a makefile is that *everyone* using it can be migrated to the latest correct instructions for using the trial OE git repo automatically. Koen, are you going to go around and fix all the places on the internet that have propagated the obsolete instructions on how to use the trial OE git repo (including the IRC log where you yourself gave those obsolete instructions)? I'll be doing so today for all users of the Makefiles who are affected by this change in how the trial OE git repo should be accessed. -- Rod