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Subject: Re: [meta-selinux] git recipes
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Adding a sensible subject.

On 02/27/2016 08:17 PM, Philip Tricca wrote:
> While going through the backlog I ran across the 'git' versions of the
> user space. I noticed that a recent contribution was adding a patch to
> the git recipe and I figured that this patch would already be upstream
> and so wouldn't be necessary. Not so. The 'git' versions have SRCREV
> hard wired (SRCREV) to a commit id but it's way back from the end of
> 2013. They're also disabled via DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
> 
> These 'git' versions seem super useful for testing bleeding edge stuff
> so IMHO keeping them around would be the right thing to do. Not sure how
> I feel about them tracking an ancient commit though. Since they're never
> built by default it seems reasonable to track the master branch.
> 
> What's our philosophy w/r to recipes that pull from git? Is there some
> history behind this SRCREV?
> 
> Thanks,
> Philip
>