Re: [RFC][PATCH] linux-yocto: drop machine from SRCREV_FORMAT

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 12:51 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> * otherwise LOCALCOUNT is incremented after each MACHINE switch when 
>   machine usually has different SRCREV (e.g. because of different KBRANCH)
> * see http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-September/029392.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
> index 973970d..6efb578 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ LINUX_KERNEL_TYPE ?= "standard"
>  # KMETA ?= ""
>  KBRANCH ?= "master"
>  KMACHINE ?= "${MACHINE}"
> -SRCREV_FORMAT ?= "meta_machine" 
> +SRCREV_FORMAT ?= "meta" 
>  
>  LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-yocto-${LINUX_KERNEL_TYPE}"

No, absolutely not. I have discussed this with Bruce before and there
are no guarantees that the meta branch gets updated whenever machine
changes. This is necessary to have deterministic builds and correctness
of sstate for example.

Whatever the problem we're trying to fix here, we need to find a
different way. We probably need to fix the git LOCALCOUNT counters in
the fetcher instead.

Cheers,

Richard