From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com (mail-qw0-f41.google.com [209.85.216.41]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F37E00595 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:28:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by qadz32 with SMTP id z32so3100271qad.14 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:28:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=iBajkrBm8SEs+f6k4ju0b6AGGoYYLQgXxcy7NkK+FKA=; b=ILpyHj3hnfqJFv2z3lEy/TJgcg9FhAIeCRcWWxlIR9VL7ESX9+wrvuNeR1+qU3Yk9Z RJyZtysRy7URmtrX7lqtfK+xjfNmQZ6DVkSbYo/OSVr7+mD464RljOBF9YG6MUZSmlsw XsBhU9dMEnQciKlI4YxhuOWdWTQSx5U/e8sEA= Received: by 10.224.217.10 with SMTP id hk10mr28135819qab.15.1328023730961; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:28:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.54] (nc-184-3-54-63.dhcp.embarqhsd.net. [184.3.54.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ft9sm41873422qab.20.2012.01.31.07.28.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:28:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F2808AE.3060306@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:28:46 -0500 From: jfabernathy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <4F2720B1.8070001@linux.intel.com> <4F27222D.7010302@gmail.com> <4F272474.80006@linux.intel.com> <4F2728A3.4070709@gmail.com> <4F27704B.5020002@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4F27704B.5020002@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: Using stable releases from git X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:28:51 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01/30/2012 11:38 PM, Joshua Lock wrote: > On 30/01/12 15:32, jfabernathy wrote: >> On 01/30/2012 06:15 PM, Joshua Lock wrote: >>> On 30/01/12 15:05, jfabernathy wrote: >>>> On 01/30/2012 05:58 PM, Joshua Lock wrote: >>>>> It's beginning to sound like we've caught some folks off guard by >>>>> pushing changes to the edison branch of the poky repository in >>>>> preparation for an upcoming edison point release. >>>>> >>>>> The named branches are development branches for the release, stable >>>>> release development will be done in the named branch and we can't >>>>> guarantee they will be issue free (though we intend them to be where >>>>> possible). >>>>> >>>>> If you're looking to use a git checkout which matches the release >>>>> tarballs you should checkout the tags for the releases. i.e. for Poky >>>>> Edison-6.0/Yocto 1.1: >>>>> >>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tag/?id=edison-6.0 >>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel/tag/?id=edison-6.0 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> So instead of doing: >>>> >>>> git checkout -b edison origin/edison >>>> >>>> what should I do if I want to stay in sync with the tarball. This may >>>> just be a doc problem. >>> >>> I'd do: >>> >>> git fetch --tags >>> git checkout edison-6.0 >>> >>> Then when a new tarball comes out, you'd repeat with the new tag name. >>> >> >> We I just tried that and it crashed a lot quicker. I'll just stick to >> the tarballs until this is all sorted out. > > Are you using an appropriate tag (or branch) of meta-intel? The master > branch of meta-intel with the bernard tag of poky will fail to parse > because some of the recipes being appended to in meta-intel have > changed names. > Can you explain the branch vs. tag as Yocto uses it? most of the help on git checkout refers to branch, where we are talking using a tag name. In Yocto what is the difference? > Cheers, > Joshua