Re: Freescale Linux 3.10.31-1.1.0_alpha release is online

[Bob Cochran <yocto@mindchasers.com>]

On 05/30/2014 09:53 AM, Lauren Post wrote:
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>> For the repo manifest file (default.xml), can you use tag names (e.g.,
>> yocto-1.6) when possible instead of the SHA for your revision attribute inside of the project tag?  It
>> would save some time of having to do a reverse lookup for each revision attribute (commit) and make the > manifest more friendly.
>> And how would I figure out why you chose a particular commit that wasn't otherwise notable / tagged
>> (e.g., you're not using the 1.6 tag in meta-fsl-arm)?
>> I looked through the commits in fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git, but I didn't find anything to help me with this.
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> When we do code freeze for a release we lock our manifest to specific commit on all layers - many times it is a mid point on the branches past the release.  So unfortunately we can't use a tag or branch name in the manifest.  After we release we go back to the tip and use that for development so our beta release will have more fixes from community from daisy branch.  We always release based on latest official Yocto Project release so 3.10.31 is based off of daisy but will be upstreamed to be part of Yocto Project 1.7.

Thanks for the reply Lauren.  I see that you point to the poky revision 
that is indeed at the yocto-1.6 tag, but the meta-fsl-arm revision is 
not at the 1.6 tag.  Other than combing through the mail lists, is there 
anything documented that would help me understand why you picked this 
particular commit for your release?  (the answer is probably obvious to 
those that aren't playing catch up like me).

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>> Lastly, I'm not able to clone fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git.  When I run:
>> git clone git://git.freescale.com/imx/fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git
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> The manifest is only meant for repo init - not for git cloning.

If you can, you might want to remove the git clone instructions at the 
bottom of the page: 
http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/imx/fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git/?h=imx-3.10.31-1.1.0_alpha


It is a just a basic repo so that we don't have to package our manifest 
in a release package as we did for earlier releases with i.MX with Yocto 
Project.
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> Lauren Post
> Freescale i.MX Yocto Project team lead
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