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From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] buildhistory.bbclass: metadata-revs show repo parent
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 00:33:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E3AA3D.4000105@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E39AD3.4000503@gmail.com>

To me, the purpose of buildhistory's metadata-revs is to enable someone 
else (or myself in the future) to recreate a specific build, that's why 
I always save this file with any build artifacts. Simply saying "meta" 
isn't good enough because it doesn't specify which repository's "meta". 
So the purpose of this patch is to try to clarify which repositories 
we're talking about.

> Before:
>     meta              = master:00d3fd571a8d261d065b43f5cf3076a381843984
>     meta-oe           = master:a1e135a499998add7575682bf53db5e02e753580
>     meta-gnome        = master:a1e135a499998add7575682bf53db5e02e753580
>     meta-rpb          = master:203903ca6f4e8df09bef6ea3c6e899d07eca8df9
>     meta-96boards     = master:2be59f0d381b5ec173d7fc24f3ae14aaf47b8649
>     meta-qcom         = master:32fcda819acb8ec485d9ab05108d554f807bf75d
>     meta-browser      = master:a3789a4168fcd42f1cdf5b5febe2c779a9467919
>     meta-linaro-toolchain = 
> master:367f784b831938dc508b7d472342d2d0d6ed9769
>     meta              = master:37b61b059031e3c272a929b834e12fd83f46598c
>     meta-poky         = master:37b61b059031e3c272a929b834e12fd83f46598c
>
> After:
>     openembedded-core/meta = 
> master:00d3fd571a8d261d065b43f5cf3076a381843984
>     meta-openembedded/meta-oe = 
> master:a1e135a499998add7575682bf53db5e02e753580
>     meta-openembedded/meta-gnome = 
> master:a1e135a499998add7575682bf53db5e02e753580
>     meta-rpb          = master:203903ca6f4e8df09bef6ea3c6e899d07eca8df9
>     meta-96boards     = master:2be59f0d381b5ec173d7fc24f3ae14aaf47b8649
>     meta-qcom         = master:32fcda819acb8ec485d9ab05108d554f807bf75d
>     meta-browser      = master:a3789a4168fcd42f1cdf5b5febe2c779a9467919
>     meta-linaro/meta-linaro-toolchain = 
> master:367f784b831938dc508b7d472342d2d0d6ed9769
>     meta-poky/meta    = master:37b61b059031e3c272a929b834e12fd83f46598c
>     meta-poky/meta-poky = master:37b61b059031e3c272a929b834e12fd83f46598c

I have a second patch, now, that will generate the following output, 
which I think is even better:

     git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core.git
     openembedded-core/meta = 
master:00d3fd571a8d261d065b43f5cf3076a381843984

     git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
     meta-openembedded/meta-oe = 
master:a1e135a499998add7575682bf53db5e02e753580

     git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
     meta-openembedded/meta-gnome = 
master:a1e135a499998add7575682bf53db5e02e753580

     git://github.com/96boards/meta-rpb.git
     meta-rpb          = master:203903ca6f4e8df09bef6ea3c6e899d07eca8df9

     https://github.com/96boards/meta-96boards.git
     meta-96boards     = master:2be59f0d381b5ec173d7fc24f3ae14aaf47b8649

     https://github.com/ndechesne/meta-qcom.git
     meta-qcom         = master:32fcda819acb8ec485d9ab05108d554f807bf75d

     git://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser.git
     meta-browser      = master:a3789a4168fcd42f1cdf5b5febe2c779a9467919

     git://git.linaro.org/openembedded/meta-linaro.git
     meta-linaro/meta-linaro-toolchain = 
master:367f784b831938dc508b7d472342d2d0d6ed9769

     git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky
     meta-poky/meta    = master:37b61b059031e3c272a929b834e12fd83f46598c

     git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky
     meta-poky/meta-poky = master:37b61b059031e3c272a929b834e12fd83f46598c

Frankly, there are too many forks and clones. There are too many 
meta-beaglebone or meta-odroid or meta-raspberrypi repositories. If six 
months from now I want to recreate a build I've done today, I'll need to 
know the repository, where it's from, and which commit was checked out. 
My latest patch provides that information.

Is this better?


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-12  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-12  2:49 [PATCH] buildhistory.bbclass: metadata-revs show repo parent Trevor Woerner
2016-03-12  3:59 ` Khem Raj
2016-03-12  4:28   ` Trevor Woerner
2016-03-12  5:33     ` Trevor Woerner [this message]
2016-03-12 11:55       ` Khem Raj
2016-03-12 15:26         ` Trevor Woerner
2016-03-12 21:54     ` Burton, Ross
2016-03-12 22:32       ` Trevor Woerner
2016-03-13 19:25         ` Paul Eggleton
2016-03-13  0:34 ` Trevor Woerner

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